Bing Crosby - Gold [Europe]

Title: Gold [Europe] Artist: Bing Crosby Release Date: 1/28/2008 Re-Released On: 4/8/2008 Label: Universal Distribution Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 042288238416, 0042288238416 Genre: Vocal Music Styles: Swing, Vocal Pop, American Popular Song, Standards, Traditional Pop, Tin Pan Alley Pop, Vocal Jazz Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Laid-Back/Mellow, Reserved, Sentimental, Smooth, Carefree, Confident, Earnest, Fun, Light, Poignant, Warm, Delicate, Exuberant, Gentle, Happy, Joyous, Plaintive, Playful, Rousing, Soothing, Sweet, Boisterous, Calm/Peaceful, Dramatic, Elegant, Innocent, Intimate, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Romantic, Soft, Stylish, Wistful, Bittersweet, Cheerful Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 2

1. Swinging on a Star
2. Alexander's Ragtime Band
3. Moonlight Becomes You
4. Gone Fishin'
5. Busy Doing Nothing
6. So Would I
7. A Friend of Yours
8. Gigi
9. I've Never Been in Love Before
10. Among My Souvenirs
11. A Weaver of Dreams
12. Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)
13. I Whistle a Happy Tune
14. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
15. Dear Hearts and Gentle People
16. The Very Thought of You
17. Sweet Leilani
18. Give Me the Simple Life
19. San Antonio Rose
20. The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
21. People Will Say We're in Love
22. The Folks Who Live on the Hill
23. Sentimental Music
24. Moonlight on a White Picket Fence
25. Blue Skies

1. Anything You Can Do
2. Embraceable You
3. A Fella with an Umbrella
4. MacNamara's Band
5. Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)
6. Getting to Know You
7. Galway Bay
8. Don't Fence Me In
9. Just One of Those Things
10. Sam's Song (The Happy Tune)
11. Like Someone in Love
12. Stardust
13. In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening
14. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)
15. Oh! What a Beautiful Mornin'
16. Pennies from Heaven
17. Play a Simple Melody
18. The Things We Did Last Summer
19. Just for You
20. I Can't Begin to Tell You
21. Marrying for Love
22. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
23. Silent Night
24. Deck the Halls/Away in a Manger/I Saw Three Ships
25. White Christmas

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Universal Distribution 8823841

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Bing Crosby's career was so long, and it featured so many landmarks, that it's easy to lose sight of the forest for all those trees. Unfortunately, his edition in the voluminous Gold series doesn't help matters much. Yes, it reels in 50 tracks from his career, but there's little rhyme or reason to the program, and his most innovative decade (the '30s) receives very little attention. That said, nearly all the major hits are here somewhere on this two-and-a-half-hour track listing, beginning with one of the biggest ("Swinging on a Star") and including "White Christmas," "Don't Fence Me In," "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)," "Blue Skies," and "Pennies from Heaven." There are many more hits than misses, but even boasting 50 tracks, exclusions are all over the place, usually in favor of middling songs from his '50s past-prime days such as "Gigi" and "Busy Doing Nothing." [Gold was previously released in 1996 with a different cover and title (Best of Bing Crosby).] ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

Name Credits Daryl Easlea Liner Notes