Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings

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Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings
Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings cover
Studio album by Bing Crosby
Released 1956
Recorded June 11, 12 1956
Genre Vocal
Length 36:24
Label Verve
Producer Buddy Bregman
Professional reviews
Bing Crosby chronology
Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around
(1956)		 Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings
(1956)		 Bing With A Beat
(1957)

Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings was Bing Crosby's sixth long play album, but the first recorded with Verve.

This was Bing Crosby's first LP with a modern, swinging orchestra in accompaniment. The songs, are also among the rare few that Bing has never before recorded. Buddy Bregman orchestrated the songs, conducted a hand-picked group of Hollywood's foremost musicians and conceived the idea of the album, which was be like Frank Sinatra's popular swing concept albums, Come Fly With Me and A Swingin' Affair!

A reviewer for Variety wrote, "Altogether it is quite a musical package -- muscular and tender, driving and romantic, pulsating and lyrical. For Bing Crosby, the artist, it is a somewhat different testament to add to the many already on record and, as you will hear, an ingeniously varied and durable one."

In its review Time magazine said, "After 22 years of making records for Decca — plus a few before even Decca latched onto him — Bing Crosby steps out with a handful of oldies on a new label, proves himself virtually indestructible. It is only when he tries to swing too high that he begins to sound his age (52)."

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:55
  2. "Mountain Greenery" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:38
  3. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 4:02
  4. "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 2:51
  5. "Heat Wave" (Berlin) – 3:01
  6. "Blue Room" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:23
  7. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:30
  8. "I've Got Five Dollars" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:15
  9. "They All Laughed" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:42
  10. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:36
  11. "September In The Rain" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:58
  12. "Jeepers Creepers" (Johnny Mercer, Warren) – 2:33