Recommended Materials
BING: HIS LEGENDARY YEARS 1931-1957
Bing Crosby recordings from 1931 through 1957. Tracks include the #1 hit song from 1935, “Red Sails in the Sunset”. Guest artists: Al Jolson, The Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Louis Jordan and Gary Crosby.
MCA Records # 10887, 1993.
FRANK SINATRA: THE COMPLETE CAPITOL SINGLES
1997 Grammy nominated album is a 4-disc compilation of Sinatra’s biggest hits. Tracks include Sinatra’s version of the hit song “South of the Border” (originally a #1 recording for Shep Fields in 1939 and a top twenty for Sinatra in 1953). Guest artists include Keely Smith, Bing Crosby, Celeste Holm, Axel Stordahl, Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Green, Billy May, Felix Slatkin and Ray Anthony.
Capitol-EMI Records # 38089, 1996.
UNFORGETTABLE
3-disc compilation with 42 hit recordings, including the top twenty hit from 1951, “Red Sails in the Sunset”.
Goldies (The Netherlands), 1997.
THE BEST OF LES BAXTER
Ten hit recordings from Les Baxter including the 1953 #2 hit single “April in Portugual”. All tracks recorded in the late 1940’s through the mid-1950’s.
EMI-Capitol Special Markets # 19888, 1998.