Drifting and Dreaming (Bing Crosby album)

Drifting and Dreaming
Compilation album by Bing Crosby
Released Original 78 album: 1947
Original LP album: 1949
Original 45 album:1950
Re-release LP album: 1956
Recorded 1940, 1942, 1945, 1947
Genre Popular
Label Decca
Bing Crosby chronology
The Man Without a Country
(1947)		 Drifting and Dreaming
(1947)		 Blue of the Night
(1948)

Drifting and Dreaming is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby with a South Sea Islands flavour. It is one of less than 10 Bing Crosby albums to be featured on all three speeds (LP, 45 rpm and 78 rpm).

Track listing

These songs were featured on a four-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-578.[1]

Disc 1: (25185)

  1. "Drifting and Dreaming", recorded February 13, 1947 with Les Paul and his Trio.[2]
  2. “It's Been a Long, Long Time", recorded July 12, 1945 with Les Paul and his Trio.[2]

Disc 2: (25186)

  1. "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" recorded July 20, 1940 with The Paradise Island Trio.[2]
  2. "The Waltz You Saved for Me" (Wayne King / Emil Flindt / Gus Kahn), recorded July 20, 1940 with The Paradise Island Trio.[2]

Disc 3: (25187)

  1. "When You're a Long, Long Way from Home” (George W. Meyer / Sam M. Lewis), recorded July 20, 1940 with The Paradise Island Trio.[2]
  2. "When I Lost You” recorded July 20, 1940 with The Paradise Island Trio.[2]

Disc 4: (25188)

  1. "I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland” (Charles F. Harrison / Jack Sadler / Florence Charlesworth), recorded January 19, 1942 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians.[2]
  2. “The Singing Sands of Alamosa” (Bert Reisfeld / Kim Gannon), recorded January 19, 1942 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians.[2]

Other releases

The album was also issued as a 10” vinyl LP in 1949 with the catalogue number DL 5119.[3]

In 1950, the album was issued as a set of four 7” vinyl 45rpm discs (catalogue No. 9-113).[4]

A further LP release took place in 1956 when a 12” album was released with the title “Drifting and Dreaming” (DL 8268). This took the original eight sides and added four more.[5]

Track listing of 12” LP

SIDE ONE

  1. “Drifting and Dreaming”
  2. “It's Been a Long, Long Time”
  3. “Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)”
  4. “The Waltz You Saved for Me”
  5. “When You're a Long, Long Way from Home”
  6. “When I Lost You”

SIDE TWO

  1. “Beyond the Reef”, recorded September 5, 1950 with Lyn Murray and His Orchestra.
  2. “Here Ends the Rainbow (I Found My Love)” (Charles E. King / Johnny Burke), recorded February 9, 1951 with Betty Mullin and Lyn Murray and His Orchestra.
  3. “Sail Along Silv'ry Moon” (Percy Wenrich / Harry Tobias), recorded September 11, 1937 with Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians
  4. “My Isle of Golden Dreams” (Walter Blaufuss / Gus Kahn), recorded June 13, 1939 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians
  5. "The Singing Sands of Alamosa"
  6. “I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland”
Blue of the Night
Studio album by Bing Crosby
Released

Original 78 album: 1948

10” vinyl LP DL 5105: 1949
Recorded 1939-1946
Genre Popular
Label Decca Records
Bing Crosby chronology
Drifting and Dreaming (Bing Crosby album)
(1947)		 Blue of the Night
(1948)		 Selections from Showboat
(1948)

Blue of the Night

Blue of the Night is another compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1948.

Background

Bing Crosby had enjoyed unprecedented success during the 1940s, with his output including six No. 1 hits in 1944 alone. His films, such as Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's, were huge successes as were the Road films he made with Bob Hope. On radio, his Kraft Music Hall and Philco Radio Time shows were very popular. Decca Records exploited this by issuing a number of 78rpm album sets, some featuring freshly recorded material and others using Crosby's back catalogue. Ten of these sets were released in 1946, nine in 1947 and nine more in 1948. Most of these 78rpm albums were reissued as 10" vinyl LP's in subsequent years.

Blue of the Night includes remakes of some of Crosby’s earlier hits plus “It Could Happen to You” which had charted in 1944.

Reception

Billboard reviewed the album saying: “Another Decca collection of reissued Crosbyana containing eight standards, including Der Bingle’s “Blue of the Night” theme. To the simple and effective backing of John Scott Trotter’s ork, Crosby sings as only Crosby can sing, which is better than most anyone else in the biz can do. Good album cover. Retail rating 78.[6]

Track listing

These songs were featured on a four 10” 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-621.[7]
Disc 1: (24200)

  1. "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day), recorded July 17, 1945 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[8]
  2. “Let Me Call You Sweetheart", recorded July 17, 1944 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[8]

Disc 2: (23510)

  1. "I'll Be Yours", recorded December 18, 1945 with Camarata and His Orchestra.[8]
  2. "We'll Gather Lilacs”, recorded December 18, 1945 with Camarata and His Orchestra.[8]

Disc 3: (23686)

  1. "When You Make Love To Me”, (Jim Hoyl(aka Jascha Heifetz) / Marjorie Goetschius) recorded August 9, 1946 with Victor Young and His Orchestra.[8]
  2. "It Could Happen To You”, recorded December 29, 1943 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[8]

Disc 4: (25229)

  1. "It Must Be True”, (Harry Barris / Gus Arnheim / Gordon Clifford) recorded April 3, 1939 with John Scott Trotter’s Frying Pan Five.[8]
  2. “I Surrender Dear”, recorded March 31, 1939 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[8]

LP release

The album was also issued as a 10” vinyl LP in 1949 with the catalogue number DL 5105.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "A Bing Crosby Discography". A Bing Crosby Discography. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Billboard". Billboard: 35. August 21, 1948.
  7. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "A Bing Crosby Discography". A Bing Crosby Discography. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  9. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
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