The Complete United Artists Sessions

by EMI Int'l

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Release Date:	1997-10-17
Label:	EMI Int'l
UPC:	766485931627
Binding:	Audio CD
Published By:	EMI Int'l
ASIN:	B000006X4X
Category:	Music

Tracks on The Complete United Artists Sessions by EMI Int'l

1. That's What Life Is All About - Bing Crosby, Barnes, Ken
2. We've Only Just Begun - Bing Crosby, Nichols, Roger
3. The Best Things in Life Are Free - Bing Crosby, DeSylva, Buddy
4. Great Day - Bing Crosby, Eliscu, Edward
5. Children - Bing Crosby, Shaper, Hal
6. The More I See You - Bing Crosby, Warren, Harry
7. I Got Rhythm - Bing Crosby, Gershwin, George
8. No Time at All - Bing Crosby, Schwartz, Stephen
9. A Little Love and Understanding - Bing Crosby, Amade, Louis
10. The Good Old Times - Bing Crosby, Barnes, Ken
11. Cabaret - Bing Crosby, Kander, John
12. Send in the Clowns - Bing Crosby, Sondheim, Stephen
13. Change Partners - Bing Crosby, Berlin, Irving
14. Looking at You - Bing Crosby, Porter, Cole
15. Yours Sincerely - Bing Crosby, Rodgers, Richard
16. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? - Bing Crosby, Lane, Burton
17. The Woman on Your Arm - Bing Crosby, Edelman, Randy
18. Bon Vivant - Bing Crosby, Mercer, Johnny
19. When a Child Is Born - Bing Crosby, Zacar, Fred Jay
20. That's What Life Is All About (Reprise) - Bing Crosby, Barnes, Ken
21. The Pleasure of Your Company/Roamin' in the Gloamin' - Bing Crosby, Lauder, Harry
22. Good Companions/And Points Beyond - Bing Crosby, Mercer, Johnny
23. The Pleasure of Your Company - Bing Crosby, Mercer, Johnny
24. Introduction to "The Way We Were" - Bing Crosby,
25. The Way We Were - Bing Crosby, Hamlisch, Marvin
26. Cuando Caliente el Sol - Bing Crosby, Rigual, M.
27. Sing - Bing Crosby, Raposo, Joe
28. You've Got a Friend - Bing Crosby, King, Carole
29. My Cup Runneth Over - Bing Crosby, Jones
30. A Song for You - Bing Crosby, Russell, Leon
31. Top Billing - Bing Crosby, Barnes, Ken
32. Roxie - Bing Crosby, Kander, John
33. Pick Yourself Up - Bing Crosby, Kern, Jerome
34. Sing - Bing Crosby, Raposo, Joe
35. Mr. Keyboard Man - Bing Crosby, Joplin, Scott
36. How Lucky Can You Get - Bing Crosby, Kander, John
37. Spring, Spring, Spring - Bing Crosby, DePaul, Gene
38. I've a Shooting Box in Scotland - Bing Crosby, Porter, Cole
39. In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening - Bing Crosby, Mercer, Johnny
40. A Couple of Song and Dance Men - Bing Crosby, Berlin, Irving
41. Top Billing (Reprise) - Bing Crosby, Barnes, Ken
42. No Time at All - Bing Crosby, Schwartz, Stephen
43. "Session Sound Bites" - Bing Crosby,
44. Holiday, Paris - Bing Crosby, Cahn, Sammy
45. Nothing in Common - Bing Crosby, Cahn, Sammy
46. Come Share the Wine - Bing Crosby, Jurgens, Udo
47. I Love to Dance Like They Used to Dance - Bing Crosby, Goldenberg, Billy
48. Beautiful Memories - Bing Crosby, Cook, Roger [1]
49. Hello, Dolly! - Bing Crosby, Herman, Jerry
50. My Heart Stood Still - Bing Crosby, Rodgers, Richard
51. My Resistance Is Low - Bing Crosby, Carmichael, Hoagy
52. With a Song in My Heart - Bing Crosby, Rodgers, Richard
53. Breezin' Along With the Breeze - Bing Crosby, Gillespie, Haven
54. Razzle Dazzle - Bing Crosby, Kander, John
55. Have a Nice Day - Bing Crosby, Axton, Hoyt
56. Heat Wave - Bing Crosby, Berlin, Irving
57. Something to Remember You By - Bing Crosby, Dietz, Howard
58. I'll Never Fall in Love Again - Bing Crosby, Bacharach, Burt
59. What I Did for Love - Bing Crosby, Hamlisch, Marvin
60. Déjà Vu (As Tho' You Never Went Away) - Bing Crosby, Barnes, Ken
61. Some Sunny Day - Bing Crosby, Berlin, Irving
62. Thou Swell - Bing Crosby, Rodgers, Richard
63. At My Time of Life - Bing Crosby, Shaper, Hal
64. The Only Way to Go - Bing Crosby, Hamlisch, Marvin

Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions

Customer Reviews

A Superb Compilation - Reviewed on 2007-10-28

If you've ever wondered why so many other pop singers of the 20th Century expressed their debt to Bing Crosby you should listen to this album. While much of his earliest work seems still to suffer from the technical short-comings of the period in which it was recorded and much of the later stuff is hard to take because of the lackluster arrangements, all of that is transcended here. As much care has gone into the arranging as Frank Sinatra always demanded on his recordings. And Mr Crosby's voice is at the same time strong and nuanced. There is a lot here, not the songs you most commonly associate with Bing Crosby, maybe, but that seems to be all to the good, because, to my mind, he demonstrates just how well he could interpret both the American Songbook and a few things beyond it and you get the idea, as you listen, that this singer was for the ages, and he was.

Bing Crosby at his best - Reviewed on 2007-10-21

1 customer found this review helpful.

I was just a young kid in the 1970s when these songs were recorded. I knew of Bing from his Christmas recordings and movies but I was not into his early pop songs from decades past. Although I was not a fan of early Bing, I still recognized his great voice...and what a voice! I just recently discovered these 1970s recordings and they are the BEST..a must have for any fan of 50s 60s and 1970s pop music. If you are into those three decades of pop music, than you know great singers and Bing takes a stab at pop songs of this later era and shows he clearly still had what it took to move someone with great music. This is one of the best CD buys I ever made, it sits in there with my Elvis, Eagles, Beach Boys, Sinatra and other great artist and songs of that era.
Music Matty October 21, 2007

Bing triumphant throughout, but why use inferior alternate takes? - Reviewed on 2006-10-24

6 customers found this review helpful.

First off: Grab it while you can! This is essential Bing, rejuvenated vocally, artistically and commercially for these 1970s sessions, elegantly produced by Ken Barnes - who seemed to have a magic touch with veteran performers. (Check out Ken's other LPs from this period with Johnny Mercer and Fred Astaire.) Unfortunately, you had to do some real sleuthing to find these in US record stores during the 1970s. (During the 1974-76 period covered here, Sinatra was hardly recording, Bennett was struggling to get his short-lived Improv label off the ground, and stores had virtually zero interest in carrying what is now revered as "classic pop.") If you weren't able to get the original United Artists LPs, this 3-CD set will do nicely. I do have qualms about the amount of "new", alternate material being remixed into the original tracks. To my ear, none of the inserts (sometimes little more than an 8-bar phrase or less by Bing here and there) equal, much less surpass, the original choices Barnes made for the UA LP issues. "Looking at You" is especially harmed by the use of lesser Bing, as are some of the Bing-Astaire duets ("Pick Yourself Up"). The good news is that the bonus material (outtakes from Bing's historic appearance at the London Palladium, or studio chatter) is highly entertaining. "The Complete United Artists Sessions," while not precisely a substitute for the original UA recordings, is a must-have just the same. Combine this with "Feels Good, Feels Right" and "Seasons" for a picture of just how dedicated and truly great Bing Crosby was during his final years.

Great set! - Reviewed on 2005-04-06

2 customers found this review helpful.

I love Crosby's voice. I could listen to it all day-it's such a wonderful, mellow baritone. This is a great set, and even though Crosby was in his seventies when he recorded it, his voice is as great as ever. The sound quality is very good, and I especially love his duets with Fred Astaire and Bob Hope-they're so much fun to listen to.

The Best Of Bing - Reviewed on 2004-08-07

5 customers found this review helpful.

I have always enjoyed Bing Crosby's rich and deep basso-baritone voice, but I sometimes found some of his earlier recordings' sound quality annoying. When I found this set on Amazon, I ordered it right away, and now that I have it, I very seldom stop playing it. All of his duets with Fred Astaire are excellent, and the live recordings and re-recordings of his music are all incredible. However, what I like even more is the then-modern music covers. With songs like 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again', and 'What I Did For Love' he showed that no matter what the era, no matter what the material, he could master it. Frank Sinatra did the same thing with excellent results, though Bing often employed more modern sounding instuments including distorted guitars and electric bass. It is very different than the classic Crosby that most are used to. However, the set is priced extremely well and I reccommend it to anyone that likes Bing Crosby, or to anyone who simply enjoys great repeated-listening music.

Book Subjects

• Easy Listening/Vocal
• Holiday Music
• Pop
• Pop Vocals
• Popular Music
• Standards
• Swing
• Traditional Pop
• Vocal
• Vocal Pop
• Vocals