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Artist: Bing Crosby And Al Jolson Label:   Decca Country: USA Catalogue: 40038 Date: 26 Apr 1947 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  14 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bing Crosby And Al Jolson	Alexander's Ragtime Band	Irving Berlin	Rate
B	Bing Crosby And Al Jolson	The Spaniard That Blighted My Life	Billy Merson	Rate

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Bing Crosby and Al Jolson with Orchestra Directed by Morris Stoloff:

mx L 4386 "Alexander's Ragtime Band", featured in 20th Century-Fox Picture "Alexander's Ragtime Band".

mx L 4387 "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life", featured in Columbia Picture "The Jolson Story".

Both recorded Los Angeles, CA, March 25, 1947.

Later issued on 45 RPM in 1951 as 9-40038, initially as part of Box Set 9-210 and then as a stand-alone single.

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xiphophilos 10th Feb 2014		From http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/Chapter_7.htm: March 25, Tuesday. (10:00 p.m.–12:30 a.m. on the 26th.) Makes his only two records with Al Jolson, “The Spaniard That Blighted My Life” and “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” Morris Stoloff and his Orchestra furnish support. Good natured joshing by two great show business figures. Get Jolson’s mimicking an aria on Life. (Decca 40038) (DownBeat, June 4, 1947) Decca cashed in on the situation. Both artists were under contract to the label and they issued a new version of one of the numbers Al and Bing had sung on the Philco show—“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” and backed it with a novel version of “The Spaniard That Blighted My Life.” Stoloff did the orchestrations for this. It was Jolson’s way of showing how much he appreciated the value of the balding musician who had begun his professional life as a violinist. However it was to be the only commercial recording Jolson and Crosby made together. (Al Jolson, page 234)
xiphophilos 10th Feb 2014		Reviewed in Billboard, 26 April 1947, p. 31.

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