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- Pennies From Heaven. 1 1936 Pop. 1936.
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 2 1932 Pop. 1932.
- Sweet Leilani. 3 1937 Pop. 1937.
- You're Getting to Be a Habit. 5 1933 Pop. 1933.
- “Accentuate The Positive”
- “Dinah”
- “Don’t Fence Me In”
- “I Can’T Begin to Tell You”
- “I’ve Got A Pocketful of Dreams”
- “Pistol Packin’ Mama”
- “True Love”
- “Swinging on A Star”
- “Sweet Leilani”
- “You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby”
This one was a massive group effort, and that’s a positive we’ll always accentuate for this first entry on our list of the best Bing Crosby songs. Bing Crosby was joined by The Andrews Sisters, Vic Schoen, and his Orchestra for this clever piece referencing famous Bible figures, Jonah and Noah, to prove the song’s classic point. Thankfully, this so...
Bing Crosby knows how to admire his woman. “Dinah,” released in 1932, brought Crosby together with The Mills Brothers, and together they deliver a beautifully smooth performance that kicks up the beat halfway through.
Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters didn’t waste any time recording the hit song, “Don’t Fence Me In,” taking just 30 minutes. They still managed perfect quality as the song went on to sell more than a million copies and dominate the charts for eight long weeks.
Bing Crosby may not have been the first to record this song, but he is the one who made it most popular after releasing it in 1945. “I Can’t Begin to Tell You” just joins the list of Bing Crosby songs that perfectly incorporate what it means to truly be in love with someone and to want nothing more than to be able to relay those feelings to them. T...
Bing Crosby reminds us that money isn’t everything in this classic tune, which he partnered with John Scott Trotter and his orchestra, and recorded for his 1983 musical comedy, Sing You, Sinners. “I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams,” like a lot of our favorite Bing Crosby songs, is full of upbeat, lighthearted sentiment that makes us believe that as lo...
“Pistol Packin’ Mama” is a song of sweet revenge with a hint of “hillbilly honky-tonk.” The crooner embracing that whole-heartedly makes ita lot different from so many Bing Crosby songs. The Andrew Sisters join Crosby for this Al Dexter and His Troopers cover as a man begs his wife to “lay that pistol down” after she finds him drinking and partying...
Bing Crosby teamed up with Grace Kellyto sing this classic tune written by famous songwriter Cole Porter. The perfect love ballad was featured in their musical film High Society. Crosby and Kelly’s voices perfectly blend on the pivotal lyrics, “But to give to you and to give to me/Love forever true.” Related: 21 Best Movie Theme Songs of All Time
With references to being a pig or a fish, this song makes us snigger, which is perhaps why it’s one of the best Bing Crosby songs. Once again, with “Swinging on a Star,” Bing Crosby set a standard for a genre of music, in this case, pop. Introduced in his film, Going My Way, in 1944, it earned the Academy Award for Best Original Song that same year...
It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in the 1937 film Waikiki Wedding, and we don’t have any trouble figuring out why. Bing Crosby’s hit song, “Sweet Leilani,” is a classic Hawaiian tune that sets the standard of “easy listening,” and it’s valid. Just listening to it, we find ourselves falling into a trance with all our worries washed aw...
We can’t help but bop around to the crooner when he sings, “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby.” It’s a song any woman would want to hear her man sing to her as he admires her breathtaking beauty. Bing Crosby’s flawless vocals are enough to make any girl swoon over it, just as many other Bing Crosby songs do.
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- Formative years and early stardom. Baptized Harry Willis Crosby, Bing Crosby was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1903 and raised in Spokane; one of seven children born into a devout Catholic family with Irish roots on his mother’s side.
- The Christmas classics. Bing Crosby and Christmas go together like mistletoe and wine, so there’s no better place to start a journey through his back catalog than with some of his classic festive recordings.
- The key collaborations. Bowie was the last in a long line of Bing Crosby collaborators. On many of his early records, Crosby shared the spotlight with artists that included jazz bandleader Paul Whiteman, the Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, the Mills Brothers, and singer Connee Boswell.
- Bing Crosby, the songwriter. Early on in his career, Crosby proved that he had another string to his bow beside his creamy opulent croon; his 1931 US chart-topper, a pleading ballad called “At Your Command,” revealed his talent as a lyricist.
Bing Crosby’s biggest hit was his recording of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, which he introduced on a Christmas Day radio broadcast in 1941, and which went on to sell over 50 million...
Jul 14, 2014 · Top 50 Bing Crosby Songs. At one point, tsort.info calculated Bing Crosby as the #1 song artist since 1900, but he's now ranked as the third. He was the singer of the most successful song...
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Here in alphabetical order by song title are all of Bing Crosby’s major hits--some as a solo and some accompanied by other well-known artists--right thru to his final best-seller “True Love,”...
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