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Also on January 25th, HLC Properties, Ltd, in association with Beach Road....
Also on January 25th, HLC Properties, Ltd, in association with Beach Road Music, LLC releases the first two exclusively digital Bing Crosby Archive albums through iTunes: With All My Heart and Shall We Dance?
The latest additions to the critically acclaimed Bing Crosby Archive series showcase Bing with his frequent duet partner and dear friend Rosemary Clooney, as heard on recordings made for radio broadcasts in the 1950s; Bing’s interpretations of songs associated with the most famous of the crooners who came after him, Frank Sinatra; and the first American release in any format of Crosby’s 1975 album, A Southern Memoir. The two new digital compilations of unreleased Crosby recordings feature the legendary crooner singing classic songs of love and romance by some of the foremost contributors to the Great American Songbook, including Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Bacharach & David, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields and Duke Ellington.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
BING CROSBY & ROSEMARY CLOONEY- Bing & Rosie: The Crosby-Clooney Radio Sessions
This two-CD set presents 59 unreleased tracks taken from the original master tapes of their 1952 -1961 radio sessions (The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric, The Ford Road Show and the Crosby - Clooney Show), complete with some charming studio chatter and fidelity that rivals their commercial recordings. Includes duets on The Merry-Go-Run-Around; Takes Two to Tango; Chicago Style (two versions); Open Up Your Heart (with Bob Hope); South Rampart Street Parade; Something to Remember You By (three versions); You’re Just in Love (two versions); It’s Only a Paper Moon; Easter Parade (two versions); People Will Say We’re in Love (two versions); Only Forever; a medley featuring These Foolish Things Remind Me of You/We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye/You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To (complete with flub and pickup take and versions of all three songs by themselves); That’s Amore; The Little Brown Jug; Sweet Genevieve; Shine on Harvest Moon (two versions); Buckle Down Winsocki; Indian Summer; Man (Uh-Huh) and Woman (Uh-Huh); and Lily of Laguna, all with accompaniment from The John Scott Trotter Orchestra.
For a different sound, Bing and Rosie are also accompanied by Buddy Cole and His Trio on a couple of Ford jingles; Will You Still Be Mine; another version of We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye; I May Be Wrong; Would You Like to Take a Walk; They Can’t Take That Away from Me; another version of You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To; Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off; Ain’t We Got Fun; Isn’t This a Lovely Day; Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep; They Say It’s Wonderful; Let’s Take a Walk Around the Block; Don’t Worry (About Tomorrow); Hey, Look Me Over; Anything You Can Do; What Takes My Fancy; Summertime; True Love; It’s Been a Long, Long Time/Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries/Gimme a Little Kiss; Moon over Miami/Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland/There’s a Long, Long Trail; Goodnight My Someone; September Song/As Time Goes By/Till We Meet Again; Any Town Is Paris When You’re Young/Paris in the Spring/April in Paris/The Last Time I Saw Paris; Singin’ in the Rain; a rare promo record for Eastern Products; and the only two solo tracks on the set: Rosie’s You’re in Kentucky Sure as You’re Born and Bing’s This Ole House. Martin McQuade’s notes tell the tale of this legendary team.
BING CROSBY - Bing Sings the Sinatra Songbook
This 18-track CD collection of showcases Bing singing songs that Sinatra made famous, the majority of them previously unreleased! Among the rarities, the Crosby-Sinatra duet on the medley of Among My Souvenirs/September Song/As Time Goes By; Young at Heart; April in Paris; Imagination; Witchcraft; Where or When; All the Way; You Go to My Head; It Happened in Monterey; and a 2010 remix of Summer Wind, plus High Hopes, an alternate take from the Thoroughly Modern Bing album session; the CD debut of South of the Border from the Songs I Love album; The Lady Is a Tramp; Too Marvelous for Words; I Get a Kick Out of You; Chicago; The Tender Trap, and Love and Marriage. Liner notes by Michael Feinstein. The exclusive iTunes digital release includes a bonus video performance of Young at Heart from 1954.
BING CROSBY - A Southern Memoir (Deluxe Edition)
This 1975 album of songs inspired by the South, making both its CD and American debuts, is among the rarest items in the Crosby canon, as it was only released in Britain. Bonus tracks add alternate versions of On the Alamo; Alabamy Bound; Stars Fell on Alabama; Swanee; and Sleepy Time Down South, and the unedited version of Georgia on My Mind to the versions that appear on the original album, which also include Where the Morning Glories Grow; Carolina in the Morning; Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; Cryin’ for the Carolines; She Is the Sunshine of Virginia; and Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay. Appearing for the first time ever is “Bing’s South Texas Quail Hunting Medley,” a private recording from the album sessions on which he substitutes some special lyrics for Galway Bay/Mack the Knife/The Surrey with the Fringe on Top/The Pleasure of Your Company that lampoon, in that ever-so-gentle Crosby way, friends like Phil Harris! Liner notes by Arne Fogel.
BING CROSBY – With All My Heart
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes this digital collection of 15 rare, unreleased love songs from the original session master tapes for Bing Crosby’s 1950s radio shows. (The Bing Crosby Show for Chesterfield, The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric, The Bing Crosby Show, The Ford Road Show and The Crosby – Clooney Show) There’s also a track recorded for an early Crosby television special. Includes Magic Moments, Secret Love, I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart, Chances Are, Catch A Falling Star, Night and Day, Hello Young Lovers, With All My Heart, Born To Be With You, Some Enchanted Evening, How High The Moon, Misty, I Love Paris, And the Angels Sing and P.S. I Love You. This unique digital package, available exclusively through iTunes, also includes a bonus 1954 video performance of I Love Paris.
BING CROSBY – Shall We Dance?
This digital release collects 15 songs of dance and romance – 14 of them previously unreleased - taken from the original session master tapes for Bing’s 1950s radio shows (The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric and The Ford Road Show), a rare track from the 1968 album, The Songs I Love and a track from a 1962 television special. Includes Begin The Beguine, Puttin’ On the Ritz, Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, It’s Not For Me to Say, Dark Moon, Changing Partners, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Zing Went the Strings of My Heart, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Keep it Gay, The Gypsy in My Soul, Granada, Lady of Spain and (the strange but incredibly swingin’) Doin’ the Bing. The exclusive iTunes digital album also features a 1962 bonus video performance of Doin’ the Bing.
About Bing Crosby:
Bing Crosby (1903 – 1977) remains the most recorded performer in history. He made over 2000 commercial recordings including White Christmas, the best selling record of all time. The Guinness Book of World Records reports worldwide sales for Crosby’s recording of the song at over 100 million copies. White Christmas has entered the American pop charts twenty separate times.
To date, Bing Crosby has sold close to one billion records, tapes, compact discs and digital downloads around the world. He may be the best selling recording artist of all time. Only The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson can rival his sales figures. He scored 41 number one records – more than The Beatles (24) and Elvis Presley (18). His recordings reached the charts 396 times - more than Frank Sinatra (209) and Elvis Presley (149) combined.
Crosby unexpectedly made headlines in 2010, when a long-lost film of the deciding game of the 1960 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates was discovered in the Crosby Archive. Crosby, in addition to being a baseball fan of the highest order, was part owner of the Pirates. He was out of the country when Bill Mazeroski’s famous home run ended the series and the game, considered by many to be the greatest ever played. Crosby had a kinescope of the game made so he could see it when he returned home. Fifty years later, that film was shown on the Major League Baseball Network and premiered at an event in Pittsburgh attended by members of the Pirates and Crosby’s son, Nathaniel.
About Beach Road Music, LLC:
Beach Road Music is a California-based, international multimedia rights-management firm formed by Raphael Tisdale and Seth Berg, two former senior executives of Capitol Records/EMI. Beach Road manages over 3,000 musical copyrights, recorded music rights, name and likeness rights, trademarks and video assets. Notable clients include the estates of Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, and Bing Crosby.
www.bingcrosby.com
From: Jeff Abraham
JONAS PR, 240 26th Street #3, Santa Monica, CA 90402
P: 310-656-3355
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Bing Crosby Archive Opens Up Vault Once Again...
Christmas Comes Early For Bing Crosby Fans
Bing Crosby Archive Opens Up Vault Once Again
New Bing Crosby CD & DVD Releases Set For November 9th
From Collectors’ Choice Music and Infinity Entertainment Group
The Crosby Christmas Sessions (CD) & Bing Sings the Great American Songbook (CD)
The Television Specials: Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials (DVD)
7” Vinyl Single of Bing Crosby/David Bowie Duet - The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth
Once again, the Bing Crosby Archive digs deep into the vault to release a treasure trove of rare and unreleased material guaranteed to satisfy fans of Der Bingle - a 19 song CD of Christmas rarities, two disc collection of Bing’s Christmas television specials, all making their DVD debut and a 7” vinyl single release of the classic Crosby/Bowie duet The Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth.
And what better time of the year than Christmas, because as everyone knows, Bing Crosby and Christmas are synonymous. And no Christmas song became a holiday standard until it was sung by Bing Crosby and no Christmas celebration is complete without that warm Crosby tone casting a glow on the proceedings.
Collectors’ Choice Music presents the first new significant Crosby Christmas Collection in decades, BING CROSBY: THE CROSBY CHRISTMAS SESSIONS, a 19-track collection featuring ten previously unreleased Yuletide recordings. Song highlights include rare versions of White Christmas; It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas; Jingle Bells, Here Comes Santa Claus (with Peggy Lee); Silent Night, duets with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, plus Bing’s legendary 1977 duet with David Bowie on The Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth.
Infinity Entertainment Group’s BING CROSBY: THE TELEVISION SPECIALS – Volume Two: The Christmas Specials showcases Bing’s beloved holiday shows, all of which are making their DVD debut. Included in this premiere, four-hour plus, two-disc collection are Bing’s first holiday special; his first color special; Bing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas from 1971 and his final special, taped just five weeks before his death in 1977, Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas, which features the iconic duet of The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth with David Bowie.
All four specials are presented in their original uncut form. Bonus Material includes: Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank Show, a 1957 holiday episode of The Frank Sinatra Show filmed in color, and out-takes from the 1962 Bing Crosby Christmas special with Mary Martin.
Having sold hundreds of millions of records in the pre MP3 era, it is only natural that Bing Crosby return with a vinyl release, a 7” single of the Bing Crosby/David Bowie duet The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth backed with a 1953 Bing Crosby/Ella Fitzgerald duet of White Christmas. This limited-edition release will be manufactured on red vinyl as befitting the season. Suggested Retail Price: $7.98
Collectors’ Choice Music is also releasing BING SINGS THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK , an amazing 20-track CD collection of Bing singing the standards, which was previously only available as part of a public broadcasting pledge drive, now makes its retail debut. These high-fidelity recordings hail from Bing’s 1954 – 1957 CBS radio sessions with Buddy Cole & His Trio, who provide an intimate jazz setting ideally suited for these songs and the incomparable Crosby.
Four of the tracks are previously unreleased while the remaining 16 tracks made their debut last year on the acclaimed Mosaic Records 7-CD Boxed Set, THE BING CROSBY CBS RADIO RECORDINGS 1954-56. Songs include: ‘S Wonderful; Ol’ Man River; I’ve Got a Crush on You; Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone; Anything Goes; Cheek to Cheek; Don’t Get Around Much Anymore and That Old Black Magic.
From: Jeff Abraham, JONAS PR, 240 26th Street #3
Santa Monica, CA 90402
310-656-3355
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