1. Swinging On A Star
2. Moonlight Becomes You
3. Don’t Fence Me In
4. Pennies From Heaven
5. I Can’t Begin To Tell You
6. Alexander’s Ragtime Band
7. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
8. Only Forever
9. I Love You
10. Sweet Leilani
11. The Moon Got In My Eyes
12. Please
13. Love In Bloom
14. Sunday, Monday Or Always
15. Bob White (Watcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
16. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
17. Play A Simple Melody
18. Now Is The Hour (Maori Farewell Song)

Although it's an interesting idea for a compilation, Only the Number 1's doesn't earn many points for execution. Yes, all 18 of the songs included were stunningly popular for Bing Crosby during the '30s or '40s, and it makes for a pretty solid best-of compilation (the sound on this K-Tel disc is a far muddier matter). But the fact remains that charts were a very different thing before 1955 than after then, and number one hits were very difficult to quantify. Even more important, there were a raft of songs that were more popular for Crosby during the same time -- a partial list would have to include "White Christmas," "June in January," "Red Sails in the Sunset," "Too Marvelous for Words," "Out of Nowhere," and "San Fernando Valley." All in all, not a great way to discover the sublime power of one of the 20th century's greatest voices. --- John Bush, Rovi

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A1 	I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (Я Напишу Письмо)	3:00
A2 	Play A Simple Melody (Играйте Простую Мелодию)	2:54
A3 	Summertime (Однажды Летним Днем)	2:49
A4 	White Christmas (Снежная Ночь)	3:05
A5 	Dardanelle (Дарданелла)	2:45
A6 	Mama Don't Allow (Мама Возражает)	3:00
A7 	Dream A Little Dream Of Me (Пусть Тебе Приснится Сон)	2:39
B1 	Whispering (Шепот)	3:25
B2 	Don't Fence Me In (Отпусти Меня)	3:04
B3 	Basin Street Blues (Бейзин-стрит Блюз)	2:56
B4 	Alexander Ragtime Band (Александр Регтайм Бенд)	2:48
B5 	Yes, Indeed! (Да, Это Так)	3:08
B6 	Rocky Mountain Moon (Луна Над Горой)	3:40
B7 	Now Is The Hour (Час Настал)	3:05

Bing Crosby – vocals
Connie Boswell – vocals (tracks: B3-B5)
Gary Crosby – vocals (tracks: A2)
Louis Armstrong – vocals (tracks: A5, B6)
Andrews Sisters – vocals (tracks: A6, B2)

Russian Label Melodya (Мелодия), 1985

Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby, Jr. in Tacoma, Washington, the fourth of seven children of Catherine Helen "Kate" (Harrigan) and Harry Lowe Crosby, a brewery bookkeeper. He was of English and Irish descent. Crosby studied law at Gonzaga University in Spokane but was more interested in playing the drums and singing with a local band. Bing and the band's piano player, Al Rinker, left Spokane for Los Angeles in 1925. In the early 1930s Bing's brother Everett sent a record of Bing singing "I Surrender, Dear" to the president of CBS. His live performances from New York were carried over the national radio network for 20 consecutive weeks in 1932. His radio success led Paramount Pictures to include him in The Big Broadcast (1932), a film featuring radio favorites. His songs about not needing a bundle of money to make life happy was the right message for the decade of the Great Depression. His relaxed, low-key style carried over into the series of "Road" comedies he made with pal Bob Hope. He won the best actor Oscar for playing an easygoing priest in Idac moja droga (1944). He showed that he was indeed an actor as well as a performer when he played an alcoholic actor down on his luck opposite Grace Kelly in Dziewczyna z prowincji (1954). Playing golf was what he liked to do best. He died at age 74 playing golf at a course outside Madrid, Spain, after completing a tour of England that had included a sold-out engagement at the London Palladium. --- Dale O'Connor, imdb.com

Amerykański piosenkarz i aktor filmowy - jedna najważniejszych postaci w świecie show businessu XX-go wieku. W ciągu trawającej ponad 50 lat kariery nagrał niezliczoną ilość piosenek, z których wiele było przebojami, chętnie do dnia dzisiejszego odtwarzanymi w stacjach radiowych - jak choćby nieśmiertelne "White Christmas". Od momentu debiutu w połowie lat 20-tych, współpracował z najwybitniejszymi muzykami swoich czasów, m.in. z Duke'm Ellingtonem, Louisem Armstrongiem czy wreszcie Paulem Whitmanem. Dzięki temu ostatniemu pojawił się po raz pierwszy na ekranie - jako wokalista jego słynnej orkiestry w filmie "Król jazzu" [1930]. W latach 40. i 50. zaliczany był do najbardziej kasowych gwiazd Hollywood. Największą popularność przyniósł mu udział w komediowej serii "Droga do... [1940-1962], w którym tworzył zabawny duet z Bobem Hope. Jednym z najważniejszych tytułów nakręconych przez Crosbego jest "Idąc moją drogą" [1944]. Świetnie zagrana rola ojca Chucka O'Malleya w tym komedio-dramacie przyniosła Bingowi Oskara. Przez Akademię Filmową był nominowany jeszcze dwukrotnie: za "Dzwony panny Marii" [1945] i "Dziewczynę z prowincji" [1954]. Z pośród ponad 70 pozycji kinowych, w których wystapił warto jeszcze wymienić takie klasyczne hity jak: "Świąteczna goraczka" [1942] [ z Fredem Astaire'm], "Jankes na dworze króla Artura" [1949], "Największe widowisko świata" [1952], "White Christmas " [1954], "Wyższe sfery" [1956]i "Najwyższy czas" [1960]. Zmarł na atak serca w wieku 73 lat w Madrycie. ---.filmweb.pl

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01 - Happy Holiday
02 - White Christmas
03 - Faith Of Our Fathers
04 - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
05 - Adeste Fideles
06 - Here Comes Santa Claus
07 - I'll Be Home For Christmas
08 - The First Noel								play
09 - You're All I Want For Christmas
10 - Medley_ Deck The Halls _ Away In A Manger....
11 - Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer
12 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
13 - Silent Night
14 - Silver Bells
15 - Sleigh Ride In July
16 - Jingle Bells								play
17 - Twelve Days Of Christmas
18 - Let's Start The New Year Right

Try to forget the fact that Bing Crosby probably never had to record another song in his life after he immortalized "White Christmas." If you can do that, you'll find plenty more to like in this crooning Christmas collection. There's the Romantic Bing, charming the tinsel right off the tree. There's the Reverent Bing, solemnly singing "Adeste Fideles." And of course, there's Bing the Showman. But no matter what you're told, "White Christmas" will be the number one reason for sticking this one in your stocking. And who can blame you? It's as timeless now as it was way back when. ---Steve Gdula

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01. Where The Blue Of The Night (Meets The Gold Of The Day) 03:01
02. Stardust 02:48
03. Blue Hawaii 03:09
04. Pennies From Heaven0 3:12
05. Sweet Leilani 03:19
06. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby 02:57
07. Home On The Range 03:12
08. White Christmas 03:00
09. Sunday, Monday Or Always 02:35
10. Swinging On A Star 02:32
11. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby) 02:59
12. Don't Fence Me In 03:07
13. Road To Morocco 02:37
14. It's Been A Long, Long Time 02:59
15. MacNamara's Band 02:43
16. Alexander's Ragtime Band 03:00
17. Now Is The Hour (Maori Farewell Song) 03:09
18. Dear Hearts And Gentle People 02:41
19. Play A Simple Melody 02:55
20. In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening 03:26
21. Ol' Man River 02:22
22. Around The World (In Eighty Days) 02:56

The chief drawbacks to this album lie in its title and its marketing, not its contents. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Universal Music, repository of the largest catalog of vintage music in the world, embarked on several reissue programs with different price points aimed at different consumers. There was the 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection of best-ofs, relatively short single-disc packages at a discount price. And there was the Gold series of two-disc compilations. In between was a series called The Definitive Collection, full-priced, single-disc collections. A given artist might have releases in each of the series. The trouble, of course, lies in the word "definitive," and when it comes to Bing Crosby, co-compiler and annotator F.B. "Wig" Wiggins, an official of the International Club Crosby, immediately acknowledges the problem. "The 'definitive' Bing Crosby -- on a single disc -- is almost a contradiction in terms," he admits at the outset. Instead, Wiggins prefers the word "representative," which he uses twice in his liner notes to describe the album. Unfortunately, it is the word "definitive" that appears in the title, and it is reinforced by a sticker on the shrink wrap declaring, "His 22 Greatest Hits." The album contains nothing of the sort. It is what Wiggins calls it, representative. Starting with Crosby's radio theme song, "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)," the album attempts to cover the bases of Crosby's extensive discography, which Wiggins, the author of a book on the subject (Bing Crosby's Commercial Recordings: From 78s to CDs, self-published, 2001), estimates to run to 2,000 titles. There are examples of Hawaiian music ("Blue Hawaii," "Sweet Leilani," "Now Is the Hour [Maori Farewell Song]"), western music ("Home on the Range," "Don't Fence Me In"), Christmas music ("White Christmas"), and Irish music ("Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral [That's an Irish Lullaby]," "MacNamara's Band"), as well as pop standards ("Stardust," "Pennies from Heaven," "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"), some of them written specifically for Crosby ("Swinging on a Star"). The arrangements range from swing band accompaniment to jazz groups to a cappella groups, with Crosby handling everything from ballads to jump tunes ably. There are pairings with some stellar partners including the Andrews Sisters, Bob Hope, and Al Jolson. And the collection has breadth as well as variety, spanning 25 years from 1931 to 1956. Add it all up, and you've got a sampler that would make an ideal introduction to a listener trying to get an idea of Bing Crosby's music from an hour's worth of music. And that would be fine, if only marketing exigencies didn't require that the package be called The Definitive Collection instead of, say A Representative Collection. --- William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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1 	April Showers 	
2 	When My Baby Smiles At Me 	
3 	My Blue Heaven 	
4 	A Little Kiss Each Morning 	
5 	Prisoner Of Love 	
6 	Ain't Misbehavin' 	
7 	Paper Doll 	
8 	This Love Of Mine 	
9 	Thanks For The Memory 	
10 	Blues In The Night 	
11 	Mona Lisa 	
12 	Memories Are Made Of This

Orchestra Directed By Jack Pleis
Jud Colon's Rhythmaires (Tracks: 1,3,7,8,11)

Few pop singers of the 20th century had a greater impact on how vocalists approached their craft than Bing Crosby. Bing was one of the first singers to understand how to use the microphone to his advantage, and his phrasing brought jazz and blues influences into the mainstream in a new way, while maintaining an infectious, upbeat, easygoing vocal personality. In 1956, Crosby recorded the album Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around..., in which he paid homage to some of his favorite singers by interpreting their signature songs, including Al Jolson ("April Showers"), Nat King Cole ("Mona Lisa"), Louis Armstrong ("Ain't Misbehavin'"), the Mills Brothers ("Paper Doll"), Billy Eckstine ("Prisoner of Love"), and even his frequent comic foil Bob Hope ("Thanks for the Memory"). In 2014 the album was reissued in an expanded edition, featuring an additional ten songs with Crosby covering a handful of pop standards, as well as unreleased session outtakes. ---Mark Deming, AllMusic Review

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1 	Fancy Meeting You Here 	2:29
2 	(I'd Like To Be) On A Slow Boat To China 	2:38
3 	I Can't Get Started 	3:47
4 	Hindustan 	2:51
5 	It Happened In Monterey 	2:42
6 	You Came A Long Way From St. Louis 	3:05
7 	Love Won't Let You Get Away 	2:01
8 	How About You 	3:12
9 	Brazil 	3:29
10 	Isle Of Capri 	2:39
11 	Say "Si Si" (Para Vigo Me Voy) 	2:21
12 	Calcutta 	2:53
13 	Love Won't Let You Get Away 	3:34

Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney - vocals
Billy May And His Orchestra
Billy May - arranger, conductor

Rosemary Clooney's full-length collaboration with Bing Crosby and Billy May should've resulted in an electrifying LP, but unfortunately Fancy Meeting You Here doesn't quite meet the (admittedly high) expectations. A baker's dozen of tourist-themed songs with Crosby as a tagalong duet partner and May as globe-trotting scene-setter, the album does include several great teamings: the rousing title-track opener, a robust "It Happened in Monterey," and some great two-part harmonies on "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis." But for every delightful duet between the energizing, melodic Clooney and the mellow, laid-back Crosby, there are a few clunkers -- "On a Slow Boat to China," "Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy)." May's arrangements are inventive as usual, but constant nods to the music of the globe at any mention of a far-flung location soon grows annoying as well as cloying. The peaks are delightful, but the few low points are enough to make listeners wish for an uneventful trip through the plains. ---John Bush, allmusic.com

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