This EU import, “BING CROSBY & ROSEMARY CLOONEY: THE NEW RECORDINGS” features something no other release this year does:
28 NEW (2013) overdubs of very rare Bing and Rosey solos and duets, updating their sound with digital remastering and compelling new musical accompaniment. Some of the top musicians, orchestrators and engineers in the music business today have applied their talents to bring these old recordings to life, and done so with utmost respect for the artistic integrity of the originals. The singers’ voices have also been polished digitally to give them a more natural acoustical ambiance that's consistent with today's listening preferences.

It is an indisputable fact that the vast majority of Crosby/Clooney fans around the world have never even heard the dry (mono) originals, scattered across some obscure and out-of-print CDs or old-time radio websites. You may think you've heard these songs before, but you've never heard them sound this AWESOME! (That's an over-used word, but it applies here). They have been completely reworked with brilliant results!

In some cases, the producer of the new CD has added whole new musical arrangements to transform the plaintive originals (all of which were done in a recording studio but most of them only for radio broadcast), into elaborate new orchestrations.  Full string sections, brass, woodwinds, guitars and even harp have been added to enhance and give them a more “complete” feel. In other cases, today's musicians played note for note on top of the original accompaniment, only in stereo! These truly are NEW RECORDINGS with a plush sound that sparkles with a new luster and an ELEGANT richness.

These tracks come from a period in the mid-1950s and early ’60s when both Bing and Rosey were in peak vocal form. Crosby's sonorous baritone is applied with the greatest of ease to some very melodic tunes. And those who aren’t familiar with Ms. Clooney's vocal abilities will be blown away!

The CD opens with a Bing/Rosemary duet of an Irving Berlin song, “You’re Just In Love,” which features true counterpoint — a main melody with a secondary melody running at the same time, both with independent lyrics. Tricky! Bing solos on a Petula Clark song, “With All My Heart,” and the new instrumentation gives Rosey’s big hit “Half As Much” new life. The twosome tackle the dramatic number “Summertime,” from the opera “Porgy and Bess,” and sing sentimentally “Til We Meet Again.” Who knew that the theme song from “Gone With The Wind” had lyrics? But Bing sings them on “My Own True Love,” with a big orchestral sound. His “Good Night, Sweet Dreams, Mary Lou” is so pretty, as is “Serenade In the Night.” Rosey sizzles on the Latin-flavored “Sway,” waxes sentimental on “Ebb Tide” (complete with the sound of the surf and seagulls), and sings an exquisitely beautiful new arrangement on “Brahm’s Lullaby.” There's even a new version of Bing’s classic “Count Your Blessings.” This CD ranks A+++++!

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