Monday, December 3, 2012

Another Moldy Oldie...or two...or three


Der Bingle, as Al Jolson once referred to him, cut this original with the Dorsey band back in 1936 for a movie called 'Rhythm On The Range' featuring a mess of drugstore cowboys pretending they knew which end of a horse points toward the front. He cut other versions of this over the years, but this one must have been a favorite, because it was included in a 1977 'two-fer' (double) album on MCA titled 'The Best of Bing Crosby'. The year Bing cut this record, I was four years old. Ain't technology grand?


Speaking of Al Jolson, here's one of his that I think is very typical of his style, titled 'California Here I Come', which captures Jolson during his best years.

And here's the original of a great cut by Bing and Louis that was re-released in 1977 on Capitol/EMI's LP Bing Crosby - Louis Armstrong called simply 'Sugar'....

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