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CLASSIC CROSBY

Volume 2: Original Recordings 1931-1933

The world’s most popular entertainer during the first half of the 20th century, Bing became America’s Number One best-selling chart-topper through a fortuitous combination of circumstances. He had, first and foremost, a confidential, personable approach to a song and a marketable charisma which lent itself to the microphones of the electrical recording process in use from the late 1920s onwards. His intimate crooning style was also suited to radio, which was at that time the predominant entertainment medium, he went into films (here his acting was at first barely competent, but steadily improved) and he recorded, some might say indiscriminately, the latest song titles, dozens of which became smash hits. He was, therefore, either (to coin his own word) "lucky" or at least chronologically ideally placed to exploit the trend that Gene Austin, Cliff Edwards, Nick Lucas and the other crooners had started.

Harry Lillis Crosby was born in Tacoma, Washington on 2 May 1903. The musical product of a respectable, middle-class, part-Irish American family, he had inherited the Celtic instinct for song, an impulse fed and watered by the Victrola, on which he savoured the plangent tones of McCormack – as well as ragtime and, a little later, his jazz heroes Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti and Paul Whiteman (1890-1967). A keen drummer in his school days, while at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Harry also provided vocals in the college combo, where he found a kindred spirit in his fellow lawstudent Al Rinker (b. 1907). Their musical tastes coincided (attuned to jazz, they sang duets in scat) and they gelled. Moreover, their mutual ambition for a career in music was aided by Al’s sister, the blues singer Mildred Bailey (1907-1951) who was conveniently placed to secure them an entrée to Whiteman’s outfit where, with pianist-songwriter Harry Barris (1905-1962), they formed the Rhythm Boys. Bing remained with Whiteman for more than three years. He recorded his first solo vocals with Whiteman’s band and made his film début with them in 1930, in King of Jazz. Then, after a stint with Gus Arnheim in Los Angeles (and his first US chart hit recordings with that band for Victor – "I Surrender, Dear" at No. 3, "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams" at No.4 and "Just A Gigolo" at No.12) he got a CBS radio contract and a Brunswick recording contract and, by the close of 1931, was fully launched as a soloist. Between 1931 and 1939 alone, Bing produced more than 150 charted hits, which included twenty-two No.1s and fourteen No.2s. Through his prolific output of recordings and subsequent film appearances he became a household name the world over and the all-embracing list of titles in his discography now reads like a virtual popsong panorama of the decade.

Bing’s first No.1, Johnny Green’s "Out Of Nowhere" (April 1931), was followed in June by another with "Just One More Chance" (a revival of a 1928 song by the New Yorkborn composer, lyricist and vocalist Sam Coslow, b.1902). His other 1931 hits, all with Victor Young’s orchestra, included: at No.9 – "Sweet And Lovely"; at No. 8 – "A Faded Summer Love" (by Texan bandleader Phil Baxter, 1896-1972); at No.5 – "Star Dust" (the immortal classic by Hoagy Carmichael, 1899-1981) and "Good Night, Sweetheart" (by British-born bandleader, songwriter and arranger Ray Noble, 1903-1978); at No.3 – "Dancing In The Dark", "I Apologise" (by the Tin Pan Alley team of Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart and Ed Nelson) and "I’m Through With Love" (by Matt Malneck (b.1903), the Newark, New Jersey violinist, composer, conductor and sometime arranger for Whiteman) plus a further No.1 with "At Your Command" (a Crosby collaboration with Barris and New York-born composer, lyricist and vocalist Charles Tobias, 1898-1970).

In January 1932, Bing got off to a good start with "Dinah" (a No.1 close-harmony syncopation with the Mills Brothers of the Harry Akst (1894-1963), Sam M. Lewis (1885- 1959) and Joe Young (1889-1939) jazz standard of 1925) and also prominent among that year’s hits were "Some Of These Days" (a No.16 revival of the 1910 Shelton Brooks standard in which he joins forces with Lennie Hayton’s Orchestra); at No.16 "Paradise" and "Shine" (another joint venture with the Mills Brothers of a 1910 original by the black

Washingtonian vaudevillians Cecil Mack (1883-1944) and Ford T. Dabney (1883-1958)) and, at No.4, "Where The Blue Of The Night" (his signature tune, first heard in his début feature film Big Broadcast Of 1932). In "Lazy Day" (another US No.4 hit with music by the English composer George Posford, 1906-1976) and "Sweet Georgia Brown" (a rehash of the 1925 Ben Bernie–Maceo Pinkard jazz standard) he is accompanied by Isham Jones’ Orchestra, which features Woody Herman on clarinet and Ed Lang on guitar.

Of the many other Crosby songs of the early 1930s which are by now rated ‘Classic’, some have the added cachet of being definitive key-songs of their period. Among the most notable in this context are "Let’s Put Out The Lights" (a 1932 song by the New Jersey-born pianist-composer and conductor Herman Hupfeld (1894-1951) from George White’s Music Hall Varieties, this became the signature tune of Bing’s illustrious fellowcrooner, the bandleader and film-star Rudy Vallee, who had a No.2 hit with it in 1932), "Try A Little Tenderness" (a favourite by the London-based team of Reg Connelly and Jimmy Campbell, whose lyrics speak of hard times) and "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?"– first introduced in the Broadway musical Americana and a No.1hit during 1932 in separate versions by Bing and Rudy, this song remains the virtual anthem of the Depression.

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1. SWEET GEORGIA BROWN (Bernie–Pinkard–Casey)

With Isham Jones and His Orchestra

(Columbia 4539-M, mx JC 8592-B) Recorded 23rd April, 1932, Chicago 3:02

2. JUST ONE MORE CHANCE (Johnston–Coslow)

With Victor Young and His Orchestra

(Brunswick 6120, mx LA 1037-A) Recorded 4th May, 1931, Los Angeles 3:25

3. I’M THRU WITH LOVE (Malneck–Livingston–Kahn)

With Studio Orchestra

(Brunswick 6140, mx LA 1024-A) Recorded 12th June, 1931, Los Angeles 3:04

4. LET’S PUT OUT THE LIGHTS (AND GO TO SLEEP) (Hupfeld)

With Studio Orchestra

(Brunswick 6414, mx B 12510-A) Recorded 28th October, 1932, New York 3:08

5. GOOD NIGHT, SWEETHEART (Noble–Campbell–Connelly)

With Victor Young and His Orchestra

(Brunswick 6203, mx E 37285-A) Recorded 8th October, 1931, New York 2:53

6. I’VE GOT TO PASS YOUR HOUSE TO GET TO MY HOUSE (Lew Brown)

With Jimmy Grier and His Orchestra

(Columbia 4531-M, mx B782-B) Recorded 9th June, 1933, Los Angeles 2:47

7. SHINE (Mack–Brown–Dabney)

With the Mills Brothers and Studio Orchestra

(Brunswick 6276, mx B 11376-A) Recorded 29th February, 1932, New York 3:06

8. TOO LATE (Lewis–Young)

With Victor Young and His Orchestra

(Brunswick 6203, mx E 37284-A) Recorded 8th October, 1931, New York 3:09

9. I APOLOGIZE (Hoffman–Nelson–Goodheart)

With Studio Orchestra

(Brunswick 6179, mx E 37085-A) Recorded 19th August, 1931, New York 3:15

10. LAWD, YOU MADE THE NIGHT TOO LONG (Lewis–Young)

With the Boswell Sisters and Don Redman and His Orchestra

(Brunswick 20109, mx BX 11701-A) Recorded 13th April, 1932, New York 5:15

11. A FADED SUMMER LOVE (Baxter)

With Victor Young and His Orchestra

(Brunswick 6200, mx 37282-A) Recorded 6th October, 1931, New York 3:05

12. DINAH (Lewis–Young–Akst)

With the Mills Brothers and Studio Orchestra

(Brunswick 6240, mx E 37467-A) Recorded 16th December, 1931, New York 2:50

13. TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS (Woods–Campbell–Connelly)

With Studio Orchestra

(Brunswick 6480, mx B 12857-A) Recorded 9th January, 1933, New York 3:07

14. AT YOUR COMMAND (Barris–Crosby–Tobias)

With Harry Barris, piano

(Brunswick 6145, mx LA 1051-B) Recorded 24th June, 1931, Los Angeles 3:17

15. STAR DUST (Carmichael–Parish)

With Studio Orchestra

(Brunswick 6199, mx E 37087-A) Recorded 19th August, 1931, New York 2:45

16. LAZY DAY (Kahn–Kahn–Martin–Posford)

With Isham Jones and His Orchestra

(Brunswick 6306, mx JC 8596-B) Recorded 24th April, 1932, Chicago 2:57

17. BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? (Harburg–Gorney)

With Lennie Hayton and His Orchestra

(Brunswick 6414, mx B 12502-A) Recorded 25th October, 1932, New York 3:07

18. SOME OF THESE DAYS (Brooks)

With Lennie Hayton and His Orchestra

(Brunswick 6635, mx JC 8641-1) Recorded 26th May, 1932, Chicago 2:33

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