Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters | ||||
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Released | 1948 | |||
Recorded | 1944, 1947 | |||
Genre | Popular | |||
Length | 16:30 | |||
Label | Decca Records | |||
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Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters is a Bing Crosby Decca Records studio 78rpm album of phonograph records featuring Crosby with several of Decca's top artists.
Bing Crosby had enjoyed unprecedented success during the 1940s with his discography showing six No. 1 hits in 1944 alone. His films such as Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's were huge successes as were the Road films he made with Bob Hope. On radio, his Kraft Music Hall and Philco Radio Time shows were very popular. Decca Records built on this by issuing a number of 78rpm album sets, some featuring freshly recorded material and others utilizing Crosby's back catalog. Ten of these sets were released in 1946, nine in 1947 and ten more in 1948.
Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters includes several songs which had already enjoyed chart success – "Road to Morocco", "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "There's No Business Like Show Business".
Billboard had reviewed the songs as they were issued as singles with mixed results:
These songs were featured on a three-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-628. [4]
Side / Title | Writer(s) | Recording date | Performed with | Time |
Disc 1 (40039): | ||||
A. "Anything You Can Do" | Irving Berlin | March 19, 1947 | Dick Haymes, The Andrews Sisters and Vic Schoen and his Orchestra. | 3:00 |
B. "There's No Business Like Show Business" | Irving Berlin | March 19, 1947 | Dick Haymes, The Andrews Sisters and Vic Schoen and his Orchestra | 2:51 |
Disc 2 (40000): | ||||
A. "Put It There, Pal" | Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke | December 8, 1944 | Bob Hope and Vic Schoen and his Orchestra | 2:21 |
B. "Road to Morocco" | Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke | December 8, 1944 | Bob Hope and Vic Schoen and his Orchestra | 2:33 |
Disc 3 (40038): | ||||
A. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" | Irving Berlin | March 25, 1947 | Al Jolson and Morris Stoloff and His Orchestra | 2:47 |
B. "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" | Billy Merson | March 25, 1947 | Al Jolson and Morris Stoloff and His Orchestra | 2:58 |
"Play a Simple Melody" is a song from the 1914 musical, Watch Your Step, with words and music by Irving Berlin. The show was the first stage musical that Berlin wrote. It ran for 175 performances at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York City. The one song from the show that is well-remembered today is "Play a Simple Melody," one of the few true examples of counterpoint in American popular music — a melody running against a second melody, each with independent lyrics. In the printed music, first the "simple melody" plays alone. Then comes the contrasting melody. Finally, the two play together. The lyrics of "Play a Simple Melody" also track the counterpoint duet in that one singer yearns for the music which mother sang, but the other singer disdains such classic fare as lacking interest and rhythm. When "Play a Simple Melody" was published, ragtime was in its heyday, led by its most consummate composer, Scott Joplin. In a famous 1916 recording of the song, while Elsie Baker wants what she considers simplicity, Billy Murray explicitly asks for "rag". The song was also recorded by Walter Van Brunt and Mary Carson in 1915.
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