Forever Bing [Import]

Bing Crosby | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B0000EWNY2
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #146,449 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Very Though Of You

2. Cheek To Cheek

3. Have You Met Miss Jones

4. They All Laughed

5. Dont Fence Me In (w/ The Andrews Sisters)

6. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

7. Anything You Can Do

8. Stars Fell On Alabama

9. You Are My Sunshine

10. Road To Morocco (w/ Bob Hope)

11. No Other Love

12. Alexanders Ragtime Band (w/ Al Johnson)

13. Where The Lbue Of The Night Meets The Gold Of The Day

14. Once In A While

15. Spanish Eyes

16. Now Is The Hour

17. Moonlight Becomes You

18. Feels Good Feels Right

19. Dear Hearts & Gentle People

20. I Cant Begin To Tell You

See all 50 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to Bing's music, March 9, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forever Bing (Audio CD)

Born Harry Crosby but nicknamed Bing after a newspaper cartoon character they he enjoyed as a child, he had well over three hundred hits on the American charts. His British chart history is modest (twelve different hits) but his most prolific years were already past by the time British sales charts began.

The tracks on this compilation generally date from the thirties and forties and include duets with the Andrews sisters, Bob Hope, Al Johnson, Louis Armstrong and (via overdubbing) David Bowie. You could fill several CD's just with Bing's duets and there are other compilations that explore these in greater detail.

The songs selected were not always American hits for Bing - and even where they were, his version wasn't always the biggest hit - but they are all classic songs of their age. Of course, some of Bing's big American hits are here including Don't fence me in (with the Andrews sisters), White Christmas, Pennies from heaven, Moonlight becomes you, Swinging on a star and Now is the hour, all of which made number one in America, and Dear hearts and gentle people, which spent a month as American number two. White Christmas is one of three Christmas songs are included - the others are Peace on earth (with David Bowie) and Silent night.

Among the other songs are Bing's covers of three of Fred Astaire's greatest American hits (Cheek to cheek, They all laughed, Nice work if you can get it) as well as Bing's covers of such classic songs as Among my souvenirs (a song from 1928 that became a hit all over again when Connie Francis covered it in 1959), You are my sunshine, Spanish eyes, A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square, As time goes by and Stardust.

While this is by no means a greatest hits collection, it provides an excellent selection of Bing's music.