101 Gang Songs

Studio album by Bing Crosby

Released

1961

Recorded

December 20–28, 1960

Simon Rady

Bing Crosby chronology

Bing & Satchmo
(1960)

101 Gang Songs
(1960)

Holiday in Europe
(1961)

101 Gang Songs is a long-playing vinyl album recorded in December 1960^[1] by Bing Crosby for his own company, Project Records and distributed by Warner Bros. (W 2R-1401) and the RCA Victor Record Club in 1961 with lyric sheets to help the listener join in with the singing. Spread over two vinyl LPs, the album consists of twenty four medleys of old songs in a singalong format. Bing Crosby sings on all of the tracks except those marked with an asterisk. The chorus and orchestra accompaniment, arranged and conducted by Jack Halloran, was pre-recorded with Crosby over-dubbing his vocals.

This double LP was also released as two separate single LPs under the titles, Join Bing in a Gang Song Sing Along in September 1961 and Join Bing and Sing Along-51 Good Time Songs in January 1962.^[2]

The albums were released on CD in 2017 by Sepia Records.^[3]

Selected tracks from the albums and from the earlier Join Bing and Sing Along record were later re-dubbed over a children's chorus, arranged and conducted by Jack Halloran, which was recorded on 17-19 May 1961. It was issued later to children's camps as "Sing Along With Bing".^[4]

Reception

Variety magazine reviewed the album saying “Bing Crosby is slowly moving into Mitch Miller’s territory. Crosby’s first sing along package did quite well in the market and this compilation of 50 faves has a good chance to do even better. The formula is light and simple and with Crosby leading the way the songalog is easy to follow."^[5]

High Fidelity Magazine: "Mitch Miller may have started (or at least resurrected) the "sing-along" craze, but it has taken the Old Master to supply the definitive triumph of this genre. He's in his jauntiest form here, leading a usually robust chorus, backed by a vigorously steady rhythm section in performances which imperiously demand participation."^[6]

Track listing

Part One - Side One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Shine On, Harvest Moon" "That's Where My Money Goes" "Harrigan" "Listen to the Mocking Bird"	Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth R.P. Lilly, Walter Daniels George M. Cohan Alice Hawthorne, Richard Milburn	3:36
2.	"Flow Gently, Sweet Afton" "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms" "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes"	Robert Burns, Jonathan E. Spilman Thomas Moore Ben Jonson	3:45
3.	"Sweet Rosie O'Grady" "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon" "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" "Goodbye, My Lover, Goodbye*"	Maude Nugent James Thornton George M. Cohan T. H. Allen	2:56
4.	"When the Saints Go Marching In" "Little David, Play on Your Harp "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane" "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel"	Katharine Purvis, James Milton Black Traditional Traditional James A. Bland Traditional	3:12
5.	"While Strolling Through the Park One Day" "Today Is Monday" "Big Rock Candy Mountain" "Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be?" "Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?"	Ed Haley Traditional Harry McClintock Traditional Septimus Winner	3:31
6.	"Annie Laurie" "Loch Lomond" "Bluebells of Scotland" "Comin' Thro' the Rye"	William Douglas Traditional Dora Jordan Robert Burns	3:01

Part One - Side Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hello! Ma Baby" "The Girl I Left Behind Me" "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey" "Wait for the Wagon" "Row, Row, Row Your Boat*"	Joseph E. Howard, Ida Emerson Traditional Hughie Cannon Traditional Traditional	3:19
2.	"Sweet Adeline" "On Top of Old Smoky" "Down in the Valley" "In the Good Old Summer Time*"	Richard H. Gerard, Harry Armstrong Traditional Traditional George Evans, Ren Shields	3:36
3.	"This Old Man" "Schnitzelbank" "Pop Goes the Weasel" "Careless Love""	Traditional Traditional Traditional Traditional	3:11
4.	"Li'l Liza Jane" "Cindy" "Where Did You Get That Hat?" "So Long Mary" "Three Blind Mice"	Traditional Traditional Joseph J. Sullivan George M. Cohan Traditional	3:22
5.	"Anchors Aweigh" "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" "Blow the Man Down" "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"	Charles A. Zimmermann, Alfred Hart Miles George F. Root Traditional Traditional	2:46
6.	"Love's Old Sweet Song" "Kathleen Mavourneen*" "Juanita"	James Lynam Molloy, G. Clifton Bingham Frederick Crouch, Marion Crawford Caroline Norton	3:51

Part Two - Side One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"My Wild Irish Rose" "Come Back to Erin" "Killarney" "The Minstrel Boy"	Chauncey Olcott Claribel Michael William Balfe, Edmund Falconer Thomas Moore	3:42
2.	"In the Gloaming" "Stars of the Summer Night"* "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming"	Annie Fortescue Harrison, Meta Orred Isaac B. Woodbury Stephen Foster	3:35
3.	"Little Annie Rooney" "Du, du liegst mir im Herzen" "Ach Du Lieber Augustine" "Lovely Evening" "Goodnight to You All"	Michael Nolan Theobald Boehm Marx Augustin Traditional Traditional	3:25
4.	"She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" "Our Boys Will Shine Tonight" "The Gospel Train" "Walk Together Children" "The Nut-Brown Maid"	Traditional Traditional Traditional Traditional Traditional	3:23
5.	"Casey Jones" "Polly Wolly Doodle" "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" "I've Been Working on the Railroad" "Asleep in the Deep"	Eddie Newton, Wallace Saunders, T. Lawrence Seibert Traditional Fred Gilbert Traditional Arthur J. Lamb, Henry W. Petrie	3:55
6.	"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" "America" "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" "America the Beautiful"	William Steffe, Julia Ward Howe Samuel Francis Smith Louis Lambert Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward	3:16

Part Two - Side Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"There is a Tavern in the Town" "Oh! Susanna" "Maryland, My Maryland" "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" "The Bear Went Over the Mountain"	Traditional Stephen Foster James Ryder Randall James A. Bland Traditional	3:12
2.	"Gumtree Canoe" "Dear Evelina" "Sweet and Low*"	A.F. Winnemore, S.S. Steele Traditional Joseph Barnby, Alfred, Lord Tennyson	3:13
3.	"My Gal Sal" "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" "School Days"* "Abdul Abulbul Amir"	Paul Dresser Henry W. Petrie, Philip Wingate Will Cobb, Gus Edwards Percy French	3:25
4.	"Heaven, Heaven" "Mary, Don't You Weep" "Jacob's Ladder"* "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" "Roll, Jordan, Roll"	Traditional Traditional Traditional Traditional Charles Wesley	3:24
5.	"O Sole Mio" "Funiculì, Funiculà" "My Grandfather's Clock" ""eemo Kimo"	Giovanni Capurro, Eduardo di Capua Luigi Denza, Edward Oxenford Henry Clay Work Traditional	3:43
6.	"Sweet Genevieve" "Santa Lucia" "In the Evening by the Moonlight" "Goodnight, Ladies"	Henry Tucker Teodoro Cottrau James A. Bland Edwin Pearce Christy	3:33

*Non-Bing – orchestra and chorus only

References

↑ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
↑ "bingcrosby.com". bingcrosby.com. Retrieved July 31, 2015.
↑ "Sepia Records". Sepia Records. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
↑ Reynolds, Fred (1986). The Crosby Collection 1926-1977. Gateshead, UK: John Joyce. p. 316.
↑ "Variety magazine". August 2, 1961.
↑ "High Fidelity (magazine)". High Fidelity (magazine). 10 (Issue 7-12). 1961.

Bing Crosby
Discography Filmography
Albums	Music of Hawaii (1939) Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. One (1939) Patriotic Songs for Children (1939) Cowboy Songs (1939) Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. Two (1939) George Gershwin Songs, Vol. One (1939) Ballad for Americans (1940) Favorite Hawaiian Songs (1940) Christmas Music (1940) Star Dust (1940) Hawaii Calls (1941) Small Fry (1941) Crosbyana (1941) Under Western Skies (1941) Song Hits from Holiday Inn (w/ Fred Astaire) (1942) Merry Christmas (1945) Selections from Going My Way (1945) Selections from The Bells of St. Mary's (1946) Don't Fence Me In (1946) The Happy Prince (1946) Selections from Road to Utopia (1946) Bing Crosby – Stephen Foster (1946) What We So Proudly Hail (1946) Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. One (1946) Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. Two (1946) Blue Skies (w/ Fred Astaire) (1946) Bing Crosby – Jerome Kern (1946) St. Patrick's Day (1947) Bing Crosby – Victor Herbert (1947) Selections from Welcome Stranger (1947) Our Common Heritage (1947) El Bingo (1947) The Small One (1947) The Man Without a Country (1947) Drifting and Dreaming (1947) Blue of the Night (1948) Selections from Showboat (1948) The Emperor Waltz (1948) St. Valentine's Day (1948) Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters (1948) Selections from Road to Rio (1948) Bing Crosby Sings with Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Johnny Mercer (1948) Bing Crosby Sings with Lionel Hampton, Eddie Heywood, Louis Jordan (1948) Auld Lang Syne (1948) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) Bing Crosby Sings Songs by George Gershwin (1949) South Pacific (1949) Christmas Greetings (1949) Ichabod – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949) Top o' the Morning / Emperor Waltz (1949) Songs from Mr. Music (1950) Go West Young Man (1950) Le Bing: Song Hits of Paris (1953) Some Fine Old Chestnuts (1954) Selections from White Christmas (1954) Bing: A Musical Autobiography (1954) High Tor (1956) A Christmas Sing with Bing Around the World (1956) High Society (w/ Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, and Louis Armstrong) (1956) Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around (1956) Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956) Bing with a Beat (1957) A Christmas Story (1957) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1957) Never Be Afraid (1957) Jack B. Nimble – A Mother Goose Fantasy (1957) New Tricks (1957) Fancy Meeting You Here ( w/ Rosemary Clooney) (1958) How the West Was Won (1959) Bing & Satchmo (w/ Louis Armstrong) (1960) 101 Gang Songs (1960) Holiday in Europe (1960) The Road to Hong Kong (1962) On the Happy Side (1962) On the Sentimental Side (1962) I Wish You a Merry Christmas (1962) Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (1963) Return to Paradise Islands (1963) Bing Crosby Sings the Great Country Hits (1963) America, I Hear You Singing (w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring) (1964) 12 Songs of Christmas (w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring) (1964) That Travelin' Two-Beat (w/ Rosemary Clooney) (1965) Bing 'n' Basie (w/ Count Basie) (1972) A Couple of Song and Dance Men (w/ Fred Astaire) (1975) Seasons (1977) Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas (1998)
Family	Dixie Lee (first wife) Gary Crosby (son) Dennis Crosby (son) Phillip Crosby (son) Lindsay Crosby (daughter) Kathryn Crosby (second wife) Harry Crosby (son) Mary Crosby (daughter) Nathaniel Crosby (son) Denise Crosby (granddaughter) Larry Crosby (brother) Bob Crosby (brother)
Related	Songs Bing Crosby recorded multiple times A Tribute to Bing Crosby

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