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...Brothers) from the French song "Je t'appartiens" by Gilbert Becaud and Pierre Delanoe "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (The Tokens) from the South African chant "Wimoweh" "Mack the Knife" (Bobby Darin) from the German song "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill "My Way" (Frank Sinatra) from the French song "Comme d'habitude" by Jacques Revaux and Claude François "Skokian" (The Four Lads) from the Zulu song by August Msarurgwa "Strangers in the Night" (Frank Sinatra) from the German song by Bert Kaempfert "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Dusty Springfield...
...Even in 1956, it was still a swell party for Bing: "True Love," another song from "High Society," gave him a No. 3 hit and a gold record (his 21st). And in his duet with Sinatra, he teaches Young Blue Eyes a thing or two about the ease of musical and movie-star mastery. "Well, Did You Evah," an old Cole Porter tune dusted off for the occasion, is a clever thrust-and-parry duet, and Crosby effortlessly gets in the best jabs. In one bridge he ends the phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark...
...century. As Gary Giddins notes in his comprehensive critical biography "Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years, 1903-1940" (Little, Brown; $30) Crosby notched an unequaled number of milestones: most No. 1 records ever; and most records on the American pop charts (nearly twice as many as Sinatra...
...Voice The book makes an argument familiar to all proselytizing critics. Crosby, Giddins says, isn't like all those people you don't like (like Al Jolson); he's like those people you like (Armstrong, Sinatra, Elvis). And, oddly, the argument is just about convincing. Crosby did indeed learn from Louis - a debt he would gleefully repay with dozens of recorded duets, frequent invitations to Armstrong to appear on "Kraft Music Hall" and the securing of star billing for Armstrong in Crosby's 1936 film "Pennies from Heaven" (at the time a rare plum for a black performer...
...Bing helped Louis, he could be said to have given artistic birth to a generation of singing stars; baritones were the almost exclusive rage for the next two decades. Specifically, his example taught Sinatra that the pulp poetry in a good lyric could be enriched by honoring it, and showed Presley how the low range for his ballads could be as sexy as the squalling tenor of his rockabilly...