Bing Crosby
Cowboy Country - Crosby Style [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Nov/2002 ] There have always been plenty of singers to perform "Country & Western". Amongst them was one who, although not considered a genuine cowboy singer, certainly knew how to interpret the genre. He was an American institution named Bing Crosby.Several... |
Bing Crosby
Going Hollywood, Vol. 1: 1930-1936 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/1998 ] Out on the West Coast of America, in Spokane, Washington, in 1925, two young men decided to 'up roots' and leave their home town. Of little significance except to the people involved, you might say there was nothing unusual about such an event. |
Bing Crosby
Going Hollywood, Vol. 2: 1936-1939 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2000 ] By mid-1935, the time reached on the first volume of Bing Crosby's "Going Hollywood" (JASCD 108/9), Bing had become one of the top stars of screen, radio and records. Crowds were flocking into cinemas across the nation to see "Two For Tonight" and... |
Bing Crosby
Going Hollywood, Vol. 3: 1940-1944 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2001 ] Three months elapsed between the completion of filming for "The Starmaker" and Bing's return to the Paramount lot, but there was no let-up in his busy schedule. The Kraft weekly radio show continued until June... |
Bing Crosby
Going Hollywood, Vol. 4: 1944-1949 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] There wasn't much time for Bing to relax after completing work on "Road To Utopia" in March 1944 before he returned to Paramount on May 1 to appear in "Here Come The Waves". Those few short weeks were occupied... |
Bing Crosby
Too Marvellous For Words - The Top Fifty Of His Many Greatest Hits [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] Ask a hundred or more devotees of Bing Crosby to compile a list of their fifty best recordings and you would have a hundred or more different ideas about what should be chosen from the many hundreds of songs he committed to disc. His twenty plus... |
Bing Crosby & Bob Hope
Hit the Road with Bing & Bob - From Bali to Zanzibar [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] It's hard to imagine a 'Road' picture without Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Both under contract to Paramount Pictures, studio executives became aware of a sparkling chemistry between the pair and instructed writers Frank Butler and Don Hartman to find... |
Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney
Hey, Look Us Over! [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jun/1993 ] |
Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby
Something To Remember Me By [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/May/1997 ] In his foreword to her autobiography ("This For Remembrance"), Bing Crosby describes Rosemary Clooney as a unique lady, able to deliver a song, any kind of song, with an unquenchable sense of humour. Whenever she's singing, there's an underlying... |
Bo Diddley
I'm A Man (The Singles As & Bs, 1955 - 59) [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] For the first time on one CD the A&B sides of every single released by the amazing Bo Diddley between his debut in 1955 to 1958... |
Bob Chester & His Orchestra
Chester's Choice [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Aug/2002 ] This compilation illustrates the different facets of a popular dance orchestra led by a personable, well-liked and competent musician who seems to have been "happy with his lot" The selection kicks off with the album's title track... |
Bob Crewe
All the Things He Is [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 13/May/2016 ] Thanks to his work with and for, Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons during the 1960s and 70s, Bob Crewe is one of the world's best known songwriters and producers. This 2CD set well illustrates there was far more to Bob Crewe than Frankie Valli And... |
Bob Crosby
Big Band Dixieland [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jul/2000 ] There is a simple logic which dictates that band leaders are by background musicians, people with an in-depth knowledge of music born from experience, and the main instrument they play is self-evident - this certainly runs true for most of the... |
Bob Hope & Friends
Put It There, Pal! - A Salute To The King Of Comedy [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/1999 ] Do the names Fearless Frazier, Ace Lannigan or Turkey Jackson mean anything to you, the reader? No? Then how about Chester Hooton or Hot Lips Barton? If I mention that they all were characters in a hugely successful series of movies known as the... |
Bob Luman
Let's Think About Luman - The Nashville Recordings and more 1959-1962 [ Jasmine Records / CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] Bob Luman's 'Let's Think About Living' was one of the wittiest and catchiest pop hits of 1960 - a chart marker all around the world and a record that should have set the singer up for a lengthy career at the top. Unfortunately for Bob he received his... |
Bob Merrill
And Then I Wrote ... (The songs of Bob Merrill) [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] Bob Merrill was one of popular music's most prolific and popular songwriters who despite being unable to read music wrote more pop hits in the '50s than anyone else. This 2CD set has a whopping 61 tracks featuring a multitude of big name... |
Bob Scobey & Clancy Hayes
Frisco Jazz 1948 - 1955 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/May/2007 ] This set provides all of the Scobey band recordings from 1948 to July 1955. Including the first issues from Scobey's own Ragtime Records which have never previously been available on CD. Also includes sessions with the artists Darnell Howard and... |
Bob Scobey & Clancy Hayes
Frisco Jazz '56 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2009 ] Throughout his prime years, Bob Scobey was one of the more popular trumpeters in Dixieland. This fantastic set follows on from the success of JASCD 440 Bob Scobey "Frisco Jazz 1948 - 1955." Four complete albums: Direct from San Francisco, Bob... |
Bob Wills
He's A Ding Dong Daddy [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/May/2002 ] This compilation, studio recordings from the later 1940s, reflects the romping, stomping sound of Bob Wills at his best, and the range of his material. Tommy Duncan handles the vocal chores with consummate ease, with and without the assistance of... |
Bobby Bare
100% All American [ Jasmine / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Country music legend Bobby Bare almost had a #1 pop hit in 1958 without anyone knowing. His song about Elvis Presley's rise to fame and induction into the US military 'The All-American Boy' charted while Bare was himself in the Army and unable to... |