Bing Crosby Meets Al Jolson [Original recording remastered]

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Album Description
When radio was king, Bing Crosby and Al Jolson guested on each other’s shows and attracted millions of listeners. For the first time, their "complete" duets are available on a 2XCD set! Recorded over 12 shows between 1947 and 1950, this set also contains a few solos with a little conversation, all digitally re-mastered.

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Bing Crosby Meets Al Jolson
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Two greats having fun
  • As Good As It Gets!
  • Bing Crosby Meets Al Jolson
  • Elemental Performers' Elemental Performances
  • Great companion to Swingin' With Bing!
 Bing Crosby Meets Al Jolson
Bing Crosby & Al Jolson
Manufacturer: Sepia Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AMUUTE
Release Date: 2005-09-12

Tracks:

  1. April Showers
  2. When The Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bobbin' Along
  3. Back In Your Own Backyard
  4. You Made Me Love You
  5. Waitin' For The Robert E. Lee
  6. I've Got The Sun In The Morning
  7. Early Days
  8. Ma Blushin' Rosie
  9. Chat
  10. Swanee - Al Jolson
  11. Chat
  12. Philco Commercial - Goof
  13. A Rainy Night In Rio
  14. Chat
  15. The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else
  16. What Am I Gonna Do About You?
  17. Chat
  18. Let Me Sing And I'm Happy - Al Jolson
  19. Chat
  20. Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody - Al Jolson
  21. The Al Jolson Show: Chat - Al Jolson
  22. Who Paid The Rent For Mrs. Rip Van Winkle?
  23. The Al Jolson Show: 2nd Philco Commercial - Al Jolson
  24. The Anniversary Song - Al Jolson
  25. Announcement
  26. A Hot Time In The Old Town
  27. Oh, Susanna
  28. In The Evening By The Moonllight/Hear Dem Bells
  29. Beautiful Dreamer
  30. On The Banks Of The Wabash - Al Jolson
  31. Chat
  32. Alabamy Bound
  33. I Can Dream, Can't I?
  34. Toot, Toot, Tootsie - Al Jolson
  35. Chat
  36. I Only Have Eyes For You
  37. Waitin' For The Robert E. Lee
  38. Bing Introduces Irving Berlin
  39. Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning
  40. Chat
  41. Lazy - Al Jolson
  42. Chat
  43. Getting Nowhere
  44. All By Myself
  45. Alexander's Ragtime Band
  46. Easter Parade
  47. Goodnight Chat

Tracks:

  1. Bye Bye Baby
  2. Bing Introduces Jolson
  3. Is It True What They Say About Dixie - Al Jolson
  4. Chat
  5. Carolina In The Morning
  6. My Blue Heaven
  7. Alabamy Bound
  8. Kate
  9. Ma Blushin' Rosie
  10. Chat
  11. Sunbonnet Sue
  12. Chat
  13. A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
  14. The Best Things In Life Are Free
  15. Back In Your Own Backyard
  16. Baby Face
  17. The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else
  18. All By Myself
  19. Chat
  20. The Al Jolson Show: Intro - April Showers - Al Jolson
  21. The Al Jolson Show: For Me And My Gal - Al Jolson
  22. The Al Jolson Show: Chat - Al Jolson
  23. The Al Jolson Show: Peg O' My Heart - Al Jolson
  24. The Al Jolson Show: Chat - Al Jolson
  25. The Al Jolson Show: The Whiffenpoof Song
  26. The Al Jolson Show: Chat - Al Jolson
  27. The Al Jolson Show: Carolina In The Morning - Al Jolson
  28. The Al Jolson Show: Chat - Al Jolson
  29. The Al Jolson Show: Beautiful Dreamer - Al Jolson
  30. The Al Jolson Show: Chat - Al Jolson
  31. The Al Jolson Show: Gershwin Medley: Rhapsody In Blue/Swanee/The Man I Love/Lady Be Good/Somebody Loves Me/Embraceable You/I Got Rhythm/It Ain't Necessarily So/Concerto In F/Summertime/Strike Up The Band - Al Jolson
  32. The Bing Crosby Show: Happy Times
  33. The Bing Crosby Show: Chat
  34. The Bing Crosby Show: California, Here I Come - Al Jolson
  35. The Bing Crosby Show: Chat
  36. The Bing Crosby Show: Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula
  37. The Bing Crosby Show: Chat
  38. The Bing Crosby Show: Whispering
  39. The Bing Crosby Show: Chat
  40. The Bing Crosby Show: Bye Bye Baby
  41. The Bing Crosby Show: Chat
  42. The Bing Crosby Show: Waitin' For The Robert E. Lee
  43. The Final Show: Bing Introduces Jolson
  44. The Final Show: Give My Regards To Broadway - Al Jolson
  45. The Final Show: Chat
  46. The Final Show: Ma Blushin' Rosie
  47. The Final Show: Chat
  48. The Final Show: Avalon
  49. The Final Show: Chat
  50. The Final Show: Lullaby Of Broadway
  51. The Final Show: Chat
  52. The Final Show: My Old Kentucky Home

Album Description

When radio was king, Bing Crosby and Al Jolson guested on each other's shows and attracted millions of listeners. For the first time, their "complete" duets are available on a 2XCD set! Recorded over 12 shows between 1947 and 1950, this set also contains a few solos with a little conversation, all digitally re-mastered.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Two greats having fun.......2006-10-01

In my opinion, Al Jolson was one of the two greatest popular singers (with Sinatra) in America in the twentieth century. Bing Crosby was very close behind them. Furthermore, Crosby may have been second to none in his duets with many of the best singers of his era.

These two discs present radio broadcasts Jolson and Crosby did together. They include a huge number of mostly terrific songs, interspersed with chit-chat, some hokey, some amusing, some touching. In the electronic age, it's easy enough to listen to the chatter once, but listen to the songs repeatedly.

Most of these songs were recorded separately by Jolson, Crosby, or both, and in most cases this album is no substitute for those separate recordings. For one thing, most of them are shortened, compared to the recordings. Nevertheless, this is a superb album. The fun these two great singers are having together is infectious. And there is plenty of great singing.

5 out of 5 stars As Good As It Gets!.......2006-08-10

Two of the greatest names in show business at their zenith. There are so many good tracks on this set that it's hard to pick out some over the others. A couple of superb standouts are Jolson's "Swanee" and "Rock-A-Bye," although every track is just excellent. The sound quality on the set is outstandingly great. I hope the people that put this set together will do the same incredible job with other classic recordings by Jolson and Crosby.

5 out of 5 stars Bing Crosby Meets Al Jolson.......2006-07-27

Great Quality of recorded songs and brief chats in between songs. It really feels like you are there at the studio live when you hear the two CD's play. I recomend it to all Al Jolson and Bing Crosby fans alike!

5 out of 5 stars Elemental Performers' Elemental Performances.......2006-03-02

The team that brought us the indispensable "Swingin' With Bing", producer Ken Barnes (who worked with Bing Crosby on several LPs in the 1970s) and restoration wiz Peter J. Reynolds, have rescued from oblivion more essential Crosby radio performances-this time Bing is accompanied by the idol of his youth, fellow entertainment titan Al Jolson. Barnes & Co. have restored the sound quality to a level that would have been far beyond the reproduction capabilities of the classic Philco model 1201 radio we hear Bing & Al pitch in this significant compilation. Likewise, the songs, chat, and a couple of Philco spots (one of which is repeatedly and hilariously "fluffed") from various radio transcription discs, circa 1946-50, have been edited into a series of seamless performances, rather than a snippet here and a snippet there, with the abrupt, distracting fades that are typical of most radio show compilations. The resulting two-CD set is another Barnes tour de force, worthy of any serious music collector's library of classic American popular song.

There are a staggering 99 tracks, 68 of which are songs or medleys. Every Crosby-Jolson radio duet is featured, plus selected solos, including all of their musical numbers from the classic April 2, 1947 broadcast of Philco Radio Time, with John Charles Thomas (sans Bing's tribute to Bert Williams, "Nobody"). There's also a delightful Gershwin medley from the October 16, 1947 edition of Al's Kraft Music Hall, and a moving, poignant reading of "My Old Kentucky Home", the last song Bing and Al would perform together. Also noteworthy is a riveting duet of "The Best Things in Life Are Free"-at least the third Crosby version of this song with which Barnes has been involved, beginning with their first LP collaboration, 1975's "That's What Life Is All About", available as part of the must-have "Complete United Artists Sessions" box set.

While this collection isn't quite the All Star Game "Swingin'" was (Crosby and Jolson were the biggest stars in the world at the time, so there's not much room for more anyway), a couple of heavy hitters do come off the bench to contribute. The primordial 20th century composer and provider of many Crosby and Jolson hits, Irving Berlin, is on hand for the May 7, 1947 Philco show, and he even performs an endearingly breathless, croaky reprise of his classic, "Oh How I Hate to Get Up In the Morning", which he had immortalized on film a few years earlier in the Michael Curtiz-directed "This Is the Army." It's the only solo number in the set not sung by Crosby or Jolson. Also on hand for a few songs and witty exchanges is Al's KMH sidekick, the appealingly irascible Renaissance man Oscar Levant, who lends some classically ornate ivory tickling to the Gershwin medley.

Ken Barnes has done a huge service in restoring and releasing to CD these irreplaceable and long forgotten gems, not only for their sheer entertainment value, but also for the undeniable historic necessity of keeping these classic examples of seminal American entertainment available to the public. Here's hoping he'll continue with these labors of love for many years to come-at least until all of Bing's radio duets with Peggy Lee, Connee Boswell and Rosemary Clooney have been given the Barnes treatment and are committed to disc!

5 out of 5 stars Great companion to Swingin' With Bing!.......2005-10-24

If you loved last years' "Swingin' With Bing" radio performance box set on the Shout Factory label, you're sure to love this new 2 CD set on the Sepia label. It contains all of the duets Bing Crosby performed with Al Jolson on radio, from both Bing's shows, circa 1947-50, and Jolson's own 1947-48 KMH, in addition to a healthy dose of solos by each performer. The remastering job is fantastic....you've never heard these old transcriptions sound so fresh, crisp and clear as they do on this new compilation. Ken Barnes and his production team are master craftsman at painstakingly restoring the audio of vintage recordings and correcting them to play back at their proper speed. Kudos once again to Ken and company (who also produced the 3 CD box set "Swingin' With Bing") for a job well done. I heartily recommend it to everyone.
Bing Crosby Meets Al Jolson - The Complete Radio Duets
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    		Bing Crosby Meets Al Jolson - The Complete Radio Duets

    Manufacturer: Sepia
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD
    ASIN: B000BUJMV2

    Product Description

    The Complete Radio Duets of Bing Crosby with Al Jolson (and some fine solo too!) 99 Tracks on 2 CDs! All tracks restored and remastered from original 78 rpm LPs.

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