Bing Crosby: Bing in Dixieland [Digipak]

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At the Jazz Band Ball

Sometimes I'm Happy

Muskrat Ramble

Way Down Yonder In New Orleans

Strike Up the Band

That's a-Plenty

My Baby Just Cares For Me

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

Smiles

Just Around the Corner

Banjo's Back In Town, The

When My Baby Smiles At Me

Object of My Affection, The

I Got Rhythm

Margie

Yes Sir! That's My Baby

Oh, How I Laugh When I Think How I Cried About You

Everybody Loves My Baby

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me, The

Memphis Blues - (featuring Ella Fitzgerald)

Now You Has Jazz

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Recording information: CBS Studio B, Hollywood, CA (01/13/1951); CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA (01/13/1951); Fort Ord U.S. Army Infantry Training Center, Monterey, (01/13/1951); Marines' Memorial Theater, San Francisco, CA (01/13/1951); Palm Springs, CA (01/13/1951); Sound Recording Studios, Spokane, WA (01/13/1951); CBS Studio B, Hollywood, CA (04/04/1956); CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA (04/04/1956); Fort Ord U.S. Army Infantry Training Center, Monterey, (04/04/1956); Marines' Memorial Theater, San Francisco, CA (04/04/1956); Palm Springs, CA (04/04/1956); Sound Recording Studios, Spokane, WA (04/04/1956); CBS Studio B, Hollywood, CA (08/26/1955); CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA (08/26/1955); Fort Ord U.S. Army Infantry Training Center, Monterey, (08/26/1955); Marines' Memorial Theater, San Francisco, CA (08/26/1955); Palm Springs, CA (08/26/1955); Sound Recording Studios, Spokane, WA (08/26/1955); CBS Studio B, Hollywood, CA (10/13/1957); CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA (10/13/1957); Fort Ord U.S. Army Infantry Training Center, Monterey, (10/13/1957); Marines' Memorial Theater, San Francisco, CA (10/13/1957); Palm Springs, CA (10/13/1957); Sound Recording Studios, Spokane, WA (10/13/1957); CBS Studio B, Hollywood, CA (11/06/1950); CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA (11/06/1950); Fort Ord U.S. Army Infantry Training Center, Monterey, (11/06/1950); Marines' Memorial Theater, San Francisco, CA (11/06/1950); Palm Springs, CA (11/06/1950); Sound Recording Studios, Spokane, WA (11/06/1950); CBS Studio B, Hollywood, CA (1956-03-08&1953-10-04&1954-); CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA (1956-03-08&1953-10-04&1954-); Fort Ord U.S. Army Infantry Training Center, Monterey, (1956-03-08&1953-10-04&1954-); Marines' Memorial Theater, San Francisco, CA (1956-03-08&1953-10-04&1954-); Palm Springs, CA (1956-03-08&1953-10-04&1954-); Sound Recording Studios, Spokane, WA (1956-03-08&1953-10-04&1954-).

Bing Crosby was as familiar and fluent with Dixieland as any other big-time vocalist of the 1940s and '50s, since he slightly predated most of his crooning brethren and sang plenty of Dixieland as a youngster -- even though his influence came more from Al Jolson than Buddy Bolden. Regardless of whose lap he was on when he learned "Swanee," his radio show of the mid-'50s included plenty of Dixieland, mostly recorded with a band led by Buddy Cole but sometimes a larger group led by the estimable John Scott Trotter. The Bing in Dixieland compilation focuses almost entirely on these radio-show recordings, but the material is sparkling and bright -- mostly because Crosby always prerecorded his radio shows in a studio, making them sound more polished than most. Highlights include "At the Jazz Band Ball," "Muskrat Ramble," and "That's A-Plenty," plus as bonus tracks, a pair of duets with two other all-timers: Louis Armstrong ("Now You Has Jazz") and Ella Fitzgerald ("Memphis Blues"). ~ John Bush

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