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- Artist: Bing Crosby
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- Release Date: May 15, 2007
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Vocal Music
Review
For decades, Bing Crosby was the most popular vocalist in all of show business -- more successful even than Chick Bullock. JSP's four-CD, 106-track anthology The Vintage Years is an affordable and entertaining overview of Crosby's career from 1932 to 1950 that mingles studio recordings with live radio broadcasts. "Der Bingle" is heard at first backed by the Paramount Studio Orchestra, then for a while by Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra, but by and large the vast majority of the performances reproduced here find him backed by John Scott Trotter's orchestra (and, at times, chorus). The Crosby/Trotter collaboration was lasting and lucrative. Guest performers on this set include Constance Bennett, Gertrude Niesen, Dick Haymes, a delightfully well-adjusted Judy Garland and the impossible-to-contain Jimmy Durante. There are just enough examples of Crosby the romantic crooner, a good many upbeat pleasantries (such as Hoagy Carmichael's "Old Buttermilk Sky") and quite a load of vaudeville-styled entertainment, particularly on the fourth disc, which is almost entirely devoted to the scripted Crosby/Durante comedy act, here playing to studio audiences who laugh loudly at every punch line. The Crosby/Garland team comes across wonderfully, particularly when tossing off old-fashioned melodies like "Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie," "For Me and My Gal" and "Embraceable You." ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Please (Lyrics) | Bing Crosby, |
(4:08) | |
| Here Lies Love (Lyrics) | Bing Crosby, |
(3:14) | |
| Some of These Days | Bing Crosby, |
(2:31) | |
| With All My Heart | Bing Crosby, |
(3:14) | |
| One, Two Button Your Shoe | Bing Crosby, |
(2:41) | |
| And So Do I | Bing Crosby, |
(3:36) | |
| Let's Call a Heart a Heart | Bing Crosby, |
(3:34) | |
| On the Beach at Waikiki | Bing Crosby, |
(2:13) | |
| Smiles | Bing Crosby | (2:09) | |
| Remember Me | Bing Crosby | (2:46) | |
| Smarty | Bing Crosby, |
(2:44) | |
| Can I Forget You | Bing Crosby, |
(2:38) | |
| Where or When | Bing Crosby, |
(1:49) | |
| Have You Got Any Castles Baby | Bing Crosby, |
(1:25) | |
| Sweet Little You | Bing Crosby, |
(1:52) | |
| The Moon Got in My Eyes | Bing Crosby, |
(3:01) | |
| Whispers in the Dark | Bing Crosby, |
(3:00) | |
| Josephine | Bing Crosby, |
(1:30) | |
| Marie | Bing Crosby, |
(2:04) | |
| The Folks Who Live on the Hill | Bing Crosby, |
(2:59) | |
| When You Wore a Tulip | Bing Crosby, |
(2:11) | |
| If It's the Last Thing I Do (Lyrics) | Bing Crosby, |
(3:01) | |
| The Moon Got in My Eyes | Bing Crosby, |
(3:14) | |
| I Don't Want to Get Well | Bing Crosby, |
(1:48) | |
| There's a Girl in the Heart of Maryland | Bing Crosby, |
(1:54) | |
| Can I Forget You | Bing Crosby, |
(2:47) | |
| I Still Love to Kiss You Goodnight | Bing Crosby, |
(2:43) | |
| When You Dream About Hawaii (Lyrics) | Bing Crosby, |
(3:17) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| If It's the Last Thing I Do (Lyrics) | Bing Crosby, |
(2:54) | |
| Once in Awhile | Bing Crosby, |
(2:58) | |
| The Lonesome Road | Bing Crosby, |
(3:25) | |
| Sweet Stranger | Bing Crosby, |
(1:29) | |
| Swingin' Down the Lane (Lyrics) | Bing Crosby, |
(1:44) | |
| She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific | Bing Crosby, |
(2:16) | |
| Once in Awhile | Bing Crosby, |
(2:48) | |
| That Old Feeling | Bing Crosby, |
(:56) | |
| Rosalie | Bing Crosby, |
(1:57) | |
| Remember Me | Bing Crosby, |
(1:57) | |
| You're a Sweetheart | Bing Crosby, |
(2:41) | |
| Birth of the Blues | Bing Crosby, |
(2:11) | |
| This Is My Night to Dream | Bing Crosby, |
(3:45) | |
| On the Sentimental Side | Bing Crosby, |
(2:49) | |
| Pale Venetian Moon | Bing Crosby, |
(2:34) | |
| You're a Sweetheart | Bing Crosby, |
(2:40) | |
| Show Me the Way to Go Home | Bing Crosby, |
(1:16) | |
| You Took the Words Right out of My Heart | Bing Crosby, |
(2:04) | |
| Rosalie | Bing Crosby, |
(1:56) | |
| The Dipsy Doodle | Bing Crosby, |
(2:38) | |
| On the Sentimental Side | Bing Crosby, |
(2:49) | |
| Moonlight Bay | Bing Crosby, |
(2:22) | |
| I See Your Face Before Me | Bing Crosby, |
(3:04) | |
| Gypsy Love Song | Bing Crosby, |
(2:53) | |
| Thanks for the Memory | Bing Crosby, |
(2:37) | |
| Gypsy in My Soul | Bing Crosby, |
(2:21) | |
| You're a Sweetheart | Bing Crosby, |
(1:27) | |
| My Heart Stood Still | Bing Crosby, |
(2:38) | |
| Side by Side | Bing Crosby, |
(1:46) | |
| An Old Flame Never Dies | Bing Crosby, |
(1:42) | |
| Sympathy | Bing Crosby, |
(1:51) |
CD 3
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie (Lyrics) | Bing Crosby, |
(2:01) | |
| Liza | Bing Crosby, |
(3:37) | |
| Old Buttermilk Sky | Bing Crosby, |
(2:03) | |
| Gotta Get Me Somebody to Love | Bing Crosby, |
(2:46) | |
| Connecticut | Bing Crosby, |
(3:33) | |
| Huggin' and Chalkin' | Bing Crosby, |
(2:33) | |
| I've Got You Under My Skin | Bing Crosby, |
(3:13) | |
| Tearbucket Jim | Bing Crosby, |
(2:35) | |
| And So to Bed | Bing Crosby, |
(2:49) | |
| Over the Rainbow (Lyrics) | Bing Crosby, |
(2:30) | |
| Love Somebody | Bing Crosby, |
(2:40) | |
| Rambling Rose | Bing Crosby, |
(2:41) | |
| For Me and My Gal | Bing Crosby, |
(1:28) | |
| Who | Bing Crosby, |
(1:16) | |
| Embraceable You | Bing Crosby, |
(1:41) | |
| Confess | Bing Crosby, |
(2:53) | |
| The Donovans | Bing Crosby, |
(2:11) | |
| Katrina | Bing Crosby, |
(3:27) | |
| I Don't Care | Bing Crosby, |
(2:08) | |
| Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me | Bing Crosby, |
(1:08) | |
| Maybe It's Because (Lyrics) | Bing Crosby, |
(3:27) | |
| Sam's Song (Lyrics) | Bing Crosby, |
(2:34) | |
| Get Happy | Bing Crosby, |
(2:33) | |
| I Cross My Fingers | Bing Crosby, |
(2:10) | |
| Mona Lisa | Bing Crosby, |
(2:44) | |
| Goodnight Irene | Bing Crosby, |
(2:10) | |
| All My Love | Bing Crosby, |
(2:05) | |
| Tzena, Tzena, Tzena | Bing Crosby, |
(2:07) | |
| Friendly Star | Bing Crosby, |
(2:54) | |
| High on the List | Bing Crosby, |
(2:35) | |
| Pretty Baby | Bing Crosby, |
(2:11) |
CD 4
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Start off Each Day with a Song | Bing Crosby, |
(2:32) | |
| I Surrender Dear/I'm Crosby the Well Dressed Man/Blue Skies | Bing Crosby, |
(4:48) | |
| Start off Each Day with a Song/I'm the Guy Who Found the Lost Chord/The | Bing Crosby, |
(13:53) | |
| Start off Each Day with a Song/Where the Blue of the Night | Bing Crosby, |
(3:52) | |
| Crosby & Durante's Campaign Song (Come on Out) | Bing Crosby, |
(7:21) | |
| Mr. Gallagher and Mr Shean/Whatever Happend to Vaudville?/While Strolli | Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes, |
(7:04) | |
| Chicabee-CH-CH (Yah-Yah-Yah) | Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes, |
(3:02) | |
| Start off Each Day with a Song/It's Not His Mind, It's His Music | Bing Crosby, Gertrude Niesen, |
(9:27) | |
| Bing Thanks Gerturde Niesen and Jimmy Durante | Bing Crosby, |
(:35) | |
| Where the Blue of the Night/A Gal in Calico | Bing Crosby, |
(4:26) | |
| And Then It's Heaven | Bing Crosby, |
(5:38) | |
| Uncle Remus Said | Bing Crosby, |
(2:31) | |
| How Are Things in Glocca Morra | Bing Crosby, |
(2:17) | |
| Feudin' and Fightin' | Bing Crosby, |
(4:07) | |
| I'll Dance at You Wedding | Bing Crosby, |
(2:08) | |
| As Long as I'm Dreaming | Bing Crosby, |
(2:59) |
