Some of These Days - Classic Crosby Vol.2

The world's most popular entertainer during the first half of the 20th century, Bing became America's Number One best-selling chart-topper through a fortuitous combination of circumstances. He had, first and foremost, a confidential, personable approach to a song and a marketable charisma which lent itself to the microphones of the electrical recording process in use from the late 1920s onwards. His intimate crooning style was also suited to radio, which was at that time the predominant entertainment medium, he went into films (here his acting was at first barely competent, but steadily improved) and he recorded, some might say indiscriminately, the latest song titles, dozens of which became smash hits. He was, therefore, either (to coin his own word) "lucky" or at least chronologically ideally placed to exploit the trend that Gene Austin, Cliff Edwards, Nick Lucas and the other crooners had started.