Name: Bing & Rosie: The Crosby - Clooney Radio Sessions par Bing Crosby
Brand: Bing Crosby
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Bing Crosby's musical relationship with Rosemary Clooney is well established by their co-starring roles in the film White Christmas; their three duo albums; and their joint concert appearances toward the end of Crosby's life. But one aspect of the partnership has gone undocumented until now, and it may be the most extensive one: their radio work. Crosby, a major star of radio during its heyday in the 1930s and ‘40s, clung to the medium as it went into commercial decline with the rise of television starting in the ‘50s. He maintained a weekly network show until 1954 and continued to host radio programs for syndication into the early ‘60s, prerecording songs and patter for later broadcast. Clooney was not only a frequent guest, but also shared The Crosby-Clooney Show with him in 1960-1961. This double-CD set, assembled under the auspices of Bing Crosby Enterprises and released through Collectors' Choice Music, presents 61 tracks in over two-and-a-half hours, nearly all of them Crosby/Clooney duets. On the first disc, recorded between 1952 and 1958, they are accompanied by Crosby's longtime bandleader John Scott Trotter and his orchestra. On the second disc, keyboardist Buddy Cole leads a quartet to support them. It looks as though producer Robert S. Bader, in analyzing the material, decided he had too much for a single 80-minute CD and, instead of cutting, decided to expand. Particularly on the first disc, this means the tracks are often loosely edited with studio chatter included, and there are sometimes multiple versions of songs. No doubt the Crosby and Clooney fans most likely to buy this album won't mind, but four versions of "You'd Be so Nice to Come Home To" and three of "Something to Remember You By" seem a bit much. The two singers take on everything from each other's hits to standards, then-current songs from Broadway musicals, and novelties, always performing with comfortable chemistry. Bob Hope pops in for a specially written "Open Up Your Heart" that calls to mind the Hope/Crosby "Road" pictures, but otherwise it's the two principals trading off lines and harmonizing. Sometimes the songs were designed as duets, such as Clooney's first hit "You're Just in Love" (two versions) or "Anything You Can Do." Others were not; it would be hard to find another duet arrangement of "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess, for instance. But that matters less than the joy of hearing two such compatible voices singing together at length.
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Bing & Rosie: The Crosby - Clooney Radio Sessions

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 1

1. The Merry-Go-Run-Around

2. Takes Two To Tango

3. Chicago Style

4. Open Up Your Heart

5. South Rampart Street Parade

6. Something To Remember You By

7. You're Just In Love

8. It's Only A Paper Moon

9. Chicago Style

10. Easter Parade

11. People Will Say We're In Love

12. Only Forever

13. These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You/We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye/You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

14. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

15. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye

16. These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You

17. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

18. That's Amore

19. The Little Brown Jug

20. Sweet Genevieve

21. Shine On Harvest Moon

22. Buckle Down Winsocki

23. Indian Summer

24. Something To Remember You By

25. You're Just In Love

26. Easter Parade

27. Man (Uh-Huh) And Woman (Uh-Huh)

28. Lily of Laguna

29. Ford Jingle #1

30. Ford Jingle #2

Volume 2

1. Will You Still Be Mine?

2. People Will Say We're In Love

3. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye

4. I May Be Wrong

5. Would You Like To Take A Walk?

6. They Can't Take That Away From Me

7. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

8. Something To Remember You By

9. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

10. Ain't We Got Fun?

11. Isn't This A Lovely Day?

12. Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep

13. They Say It's Wonderful

14. Shine On Harvest Moon

15. Let's Take A Walk Around The Block

16. Don't Worry (About Tomorrow)

17. Hey, Look Me Over

18. Anything You Can Do

19. What Takes My Fancy

20. Summertime

21. True Love

22. It's Been A Long Long Time/Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries/Gimme A Little Kiss

23. Moon Over Miami/Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland/There's A Long Long Trail

24. Goodnight My Someone

25. September Song/As Time Goes By/Till We Meet Again

26. Any Town Is Paris When You're Young/Paris In The Spring/April In Paris/The Last Time I Saw Paris

27. Singin' In The Rain

28. Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Sing For Eastern Products

29. You're In Kentucky Sure As You're Born

30. Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Sing For Eastern Products

31. This Ole House

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