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Bing Crosby Too Marvelous For Words - Greatest 2-CD

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Bing Crosby: Too Marvelous For Words - Greatest 2-CD

CD on JASMINE RECORDS by Bing Crosby - Too Marvelous For Words - Greatest 2-CD

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  • Interpret: Bing Crosby

  • Album titlle: Too Marvelous For Words - Greatest 2-CD

  • Label JASMINE

  • Preiscode JAS
  • Genre Pop

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0604988039221

  • weight in Kg 0.2
Crosby, Bing - Too Marvelous For Words - Greatest 2-CD CD 1
01 I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams Bing Crosby
02 Pennies From Heaven Bing Crosby
03 Remember Me? Bing Crosby
04 June In January Bing Crosby
05 Red Seails In The Sunset Bing Crosby
06 Too Marvellous For Words Bing Crosby
07 The Moon Got In My Eyes Bing Crosby
08 You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me Bing Crosby
09 Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? Bing Crosby
10 Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?) Bing Crosby
11 Only Forever Bing Crosby
12 Please Bing Crosby
13 San Fernando Valley Bing Crosby
14 I Can't Begin To Tell You Bing Crosby
15 Shadow Waltz Bing Crosby
16 Little Dutch Mill Bing Crosby
17 Alexander's Ragtime Band Bing Crosby
18 I'm An Old Cowhand Bing Crosby
19 The Last Round-Up Bing Crosby
20 I Wished On The Moon Bing Crosby
21 Goodnight, Lovely Little Lady Bing Crosby
22 Swinging On A Star Bing Crosby
23 Don't Fence Me In Bing Crosby
24 I'll Be Seing You Bing Crosby
25 Thanks Bing Crosby
Crosby, Bing - Too Marvelous For Words - Greatest 2-CD CD 2
01 White Christmas Bing Crosby
02 Moonlight Becomes You Bing Crosby
03 I Love You Bing Crosby
04 Sunday, Monday, Or Always Bing Crosby
05 Love In Bloom Bing Crosby
06 Soon Bing Crosby
07 At Your Command Bing Crosby
08 Dinah Bing Crosby
09 It's Easy To Remember Bing Crosby
10 Trade Winds Bing Crosby
11 It's Been A Long, Long Time Bing Crosby
12 Never In A Million Years Bing Crosby
13 (Ther'll Be A) Hot Tine In The Town Of... Bing Crosby
14 Sweet Georgia Brown Bing Crosby
15 Out Of Nowhere Bing Crosby
16 Just One More Chance Bing Crosby
17 You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby Bing Crosby
18 Pistol Packin' Mama Bing Crosby
19 Dolores Bing Crosby
20 Amor, Amor Bing Crosby
21 What's New? Bing Crosby
22 Sweet Leilani Bing Crosby
23 Sierrra Sue Bing Crosby
24 Bea Careful, It's My Heart Bing Crosby
25 Now Is The Hour Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby   Born Harry Lillis Crosby on May 2, 1903, in Tacoma,... more
"Bing Crosby"

 

 

Bing Crosby

 

Born Harry Lillis Crosby on May 2, 1903, in Tacoma, WA; died of a heart attack on October 14, 1977, in Madrid, Spain. Bing Crosby was one of the most popular singing stars in the history of show business and one of the best-selling musicians of all time. In his almost 60 years spanning career, Crosby produced over 1,600 recordings, of which he sold half a billion copies. His honeyed baritone revolutionized crooning and won him a worldwide audience.

A comic strip nickname

Crosby always gave the year of his birth as 1904, but some sources say he was born on May 2, 1903 in Tacoma, Washington. He was one of seven children of a bookkeeper and a pious, ambitious mother. When Crosby was still a young child, his family moved to Spokane, where his father took a job with the Inland Brewery. Young Crosby attended Catholic schools and earned the nickname 'Bing' from his fondness for a newspaper comic strip called the 'Bingville Bugle.'

Childhood and youth

Bing Crosby as a child loved to sing and he sang to himself everywhere he went. Ironically, he never learned to read music, and he quit his only formal singing lessons after a few weeks. Entirely self-taught as a singer, Crosby gravitated to the kind of music he heard on his parents’ gramophone, popular songs, ragtime, and show numbers. Crosby attended Gonzaga High School, a Jesuit school. After high school he enrolled in Gonzaga University with the intention of becoming a lawyer. Other interests intervened, however; with a group of his Spokane buddies, he formed a small band in 1921, The Musicaladers, which performed at school functions and private parties. Crosby was the group’s vocalist and drummer, his only work as an instrumentalist. The Musicaladers were surprisingly successful for a band staffed principally by teenagers; before long they found themselves entertaining audiences between films at a Spokane movie house.

Overnight success

Even after the Musicaladers disbanded, Crosby and a friend, Al Rinker, continued to work together as a duo. In 1925 the two decided to take a chance at the big time; they pooled their resources and set off for Los Angeles in a beat-up Model T Ford. They were nothing less than an overnight success. Rinker’s sister was Mildred Bailey, herself a successful vaudevillian, and she was able to help the boys secure a contract for West Coast vaudeville work. Billing themselves as Two Boys and a Piano, Crosby and Rinker sang popular numbers in a jazzy style that has since become the signature sound of crooning.

Late in 1926 the duo received a lucrative offer from Paul Whiteman, one of the nation’s most famous orchestra leaders. They joined Whiteman in Chicago, then moved with him to New York City but failed to make a hit. Shepherd and Slatzer suggested that Manhattan's mainstream audiences were not quite ready for Bing’s scat singing and off-beat presentation. Whatever the case, Crosby and Rinker separated from Whiteman’s act and added a third partner, Harry Barris. With Barris and Rinker both at piano and Crosby as front man, the group became known as The Rhythm Boys.

The Rhythm Boys and the Coconut Grove

As The Rhythm Boys, Crosby and his partners regained their professional standing quickly. They cut several singles for the Victor label in 1927, including 'Mississippi Mud,' 'From Monday On,' and 'Side By Side,' and after a vaudeville tour on their own, rejoined Whiteman for a highly successful West Coast run. In 1930 they appeared in their first feature film, which starred Whiteman and was called The King of Jazz. When the movie was completed, they struck out on their own again, signing a contract to appear with the Gus Arnheim Orchestra at the prestigious Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles. In September of 1930 he married starlet Dixie Lee. Shortly thereafter he made his first two-reel short film, I Surrender, Dear, using a song Barris had written for him as the movie’s title. Crosby’s performance of 'I Surrender, Dear' brought him to the attention of William Paley, the owner of CBS. Paley offered Crosby his own radio show, and, after some nasty legal wrangling, Crosby left both the Coconut Grove and The Rhythm Boys.

Radio career

On September 2, 1931, Crosby opened his first radio show with a new theme song: 'Where The Blue Of The Night Meets The Gold Of The Day.' He performed live for an unprecedented 20 weeks at Manhattan’s Paramount Theatre, signed a movie contract with Paramount Pictures, and began recording regularly with a new label, Decca Records. Throughout the Great Depression and on into the years of World War II, Bing Crosby was the nation’s most beloved crooner and one of its favorite stars. In 1935 Crosby moved from CBS radio to NBC, where he starred on the popular Kraft Music Hall. He worked on that live show for nearly a dozen years, leaving only when ABC radio allowed him to pre-record his programs on audiotape. In the meantime, he starred or appeared in some one hundred films, including the highly popular 'Road'-series, 'The Road To Singapore,' 'The Road To Zanzibar,' 'The Road To Morocco,' with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour; Hope and Crosby played off one another perfectly, often ad-libbing dialogue and flip comments in these essentially silly pictures.

Hollywood

During the glory days of the big Hollywood studios, Crosby was under contract to Paramount Pictures. He often appeared in as many as three full-length features per year and won an Academy Award in 1945 for portraying a priest in Going My Way. It was radio, however, that made Crosby a star. His exceptional voice and casual, relaxed demeanor projected well over the airwaves, and his innovative, jazzy style of singing won the hearts of younger fans and the envy of his peers. In the midst of the Great Depression, Bing Crosby became a millionaire, and by his death in 1977 he was estimated to be worth more than $80 million, most of it invested in industry and real estate. His success is all the more phenomenal in that it came long before the inflated salaries and lucrative endorsement contracts earned by today’s popular singers.

White Christmas

Crosby’s voice and delivery were surprisingly adaptable; over the years he sang every type of popular song, from cowboy ditties to blues, ballads, and patriotic numbers. He was initially reluctant to sing hymns, but he eventually overcame this reticence, and today his Christmas carols, especially 'White Christmas,' are his most treasured recordings. For many years Crosby’s rendition of 'White Christmas' was the best-selling recording in history. He recorded songs for the labels RCA Victor, Columbia, Decca, and MCA, between 1927 and 1977.

Radio, TV and Rock'n'Roll

Crosby returned to CBS radio in 1949 and made the transition to television easily in the early 1950s. His television forte was the variety special. Beginning in 1966 he hosted a yearly Christmas show that featured his second wife, Kathryn, and their children. Crosby’s only regular weekly television show was a situation comedy, The Bing Crosby Show, which ran for two seasons in 1964-1965.

Even the advent of rock and roll did little to erode Crosby’s popularity. His fans had aged along with him and saw him as a wholesome, relaxing alternative to the rhythms of the new generation. Nor did Crosby disappoint them; his voice held its clarity as he aged, and he continued to perform, live and on television, right up to his death in 1977.

The later years

In his later years Bing Crosby indulged his lifelong passion for golf by founding a tournament in his name. In October of 1977, Crosby collapsed from a massive heart attack on a golf course outside Madrid, Spain. He is survived by his second wife and seven children, four sons from his first marriage with Dixie Lee, including famous singer Gary Crosby, and two sons and a daughter from his second with actress Kathryn Grant, and by his younger brother Bob of Bob Crosby & The Bobcats fame. Several of his older sons had performed with him during the 1940s, and his second family often appeared with him on his television specials.

The persistence of Crosby’s fame is evident in the number of his recordings still in print and in the re-broadcast of his many films. His Irish good looks and inimitable baritone stand as one of the strongest testaments of radio’s golden age and one of the crowning achievements of the Hollywood film. 

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