Bing Could Rock a Mike. I don't care what you say.

[rosco rathbone]

I don't know if he is throwing down harder on this version I have of "The Whiffenpoof Song" or in "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra/ Irish Lullaby".


ge-e-e-e-entleman songsters, off on a spree.....

The backing vocals are hair raising. Like a choir of angels.

 

[rosco rathbone]

"Blue Skies." Fuck.

 

[lapinova]

i think we must have the same CD on.
What're the odds?

 

[rosco rathbone]

I think "Blue Skies" might be even more happy lyrics/ sad singing, music than Louis Armstrong doing "Wonderful World".

 

[rosco rathbone]

It was true on 1-13-2005 and it's true today as well in the heats of summer.



No one sings like this anymore. He sounds like a grown man. A pipe-smoker maybe even. How anything as goofy as "The Whiffenpoof Song" could be so bone-chilling is beyond me; but he does it. "Blue Skies" is up next. I hope I can make it through "Brother Can You Spare A Dime" without getting the upups.

FUck. "WHite Xmas" took me by suprise on shuffle. Unreal. The sound of men feeling.

 

[RoryN]

Bing was a phenomenal recording artist...

...who is almost certainly rotting in hell.

 

[Ishmael]

Too much has been lost. But "Crooners" are 'out' these days.

Ishmael

 

[rosco rathbone]

Bing was a phenomenal recording artist...

...who is almost certainly rotting in hell.

Was he a bad man ala Fatty Arbuckle, Joan Crawford Hollywood Babylon?

Wait, don't tell me.

 

[Angeline]

I don't know if he is throwing down harder on this version I have of "The Whiffenpoof Song" or in "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra/ Irish Lullaby".


ge-e-e-e-entleman songsters, off on a spree.....

The backing vocals are hair raising. Like a choir of angels.

He came out of the 1920's-1930's jazz tradition. Loved Pops and Fats Waller. A lot of people don't realize that about him.

 

[Angeline]

Bing was a phenomenal recording artist...

...who is almost certainly rotting in hell.

Daddy Dearest?

 

[RoryN]

Was he a bad man ala Fatty Arbuckle, Joan Crawford Hollywood Babylon?

Wait, don't tell me.

Fatty Arbuckle doesn't belong in that triumvirate.

Bing's "asshole-dom" is legendary.

 

[breakwall]

"Swing On A Star" and his version of Jingle Bells...

Just about anything he did with the Andrews Sisters kicked several different kinds of ass.

 

[RoryN]

Just about anything he did with the Andrews Sisters kicked several different kinds of ass.

Patty Andrews, lead = still alive.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Fatty Arbuckle doesn't belong in that triumvirate.

Bing's "asshole-dom" is legendary.

Next you'll be telling me that Louis Armstrong beat his wife and fined his band for missing the "one".

I only say this because "Wonderful World" is on deck. No , wait. I've been taken off guard by Caetano Veloso! La la la la laa-a-a-a-a

 

[breakwall]

Patty Andrews, lead = still alive.

I guess I shouldn't be too shocked. Rosemary Clooney just passed on recently. (Didn't she? If she's still alive, my apologies.)

 

[rosco rathbone]

"Swing On A Star" and his version of Jingle Bells...

Just about anything he did with the Andrews Sisters kicked several different kinds of ass.

They are awesome! Straight up choir of angels.

 

[RoryN]

I guess I shouldn't be too shocked. Rosemary Clooney just passed on recently. (Didn't she? If she's still alive, my apologies.)

Yes.

They tore her home down last week. No one will be a comin' ova to her house anymore.

 

[Hooper_X]

Old Bing The Crooner was never more of a syncopating hep-cat than on his rendition of Good King Wenceslas.

 

[spacekowboy]

Bing could deffintiley rock a mic .



He also had a left hook that was second to none . Ask his kids!

 

[rosco rathbone]

Old Bing The Crooner was never more of a syncopating hep-cat than on his rendition of Good King Wenceslas.

I'm a quite decent singer; and when trying to sing along with him I find his phrasing totally outside the box. It's no joke.

 

[Ishmael]

I'm a quite decent singer; and when trying to sing along with him I find his phrasing totally outside the box. It's no joke.

LOL Danny Kaye would drive you nuts then.

Ishmael

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

LOL Danny Kaye would drive you nuts then.

Ishmael

Nothing like a Danny Kaye patter song.

 

[rosco rathbone]

LOL Danny Kaye would drive you nuts then.

Ishmael

Too hip for me.

Harry Belafonte is more my speed. Wait he's up now!

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

Danny Kaye, hip? He was (intentionally) a bit of a doofus.

http://www.angelfire.com/film/dannykaye/DannyKaye_DrinkaWaterAlbum.jpg

 

[Ishmael]

Danny Kaye, hip? He was (intentionally) a bit of a doofus.

http://www.angelfire.com/film/dannykaye/DannyKaye_DrinkaWaterAlbum.jpg

The Ray Stevens of his day.

Ishmael