78 RPM - Bob Crosby - Decca Presents The Bob Crosby Showcase - Decca

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Bob Crosby
Label:	Decca
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	Album No. 32
Date:	Jan 1939
Format:	Album
Title:	Decca Presents The Bob Crosby Showcase
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Price Guide:	$41
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PRICE GUIDE

$41

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bob Crosby	Summertime (Bob Crosby's Theme Song)	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	Rate
B	Bob Crosby	I'm Free (What's New)	Bob Haggart	Rate
C	Bob Crosby's Bob Cats	Speak To Me Of Love	Jean Lenoir, Bruce Siever	Rate
D	Bob Crosby's Bob Cats	The Big Bass Viol	M. T. Bohannon	Rate
E	Four Of The Bob Cats	I Hear You Talking	Eddie Miller, Ray Bauduc	Rate
F	Four Of The Bob Cats	Call Me A Taxi	Bob Haggart, Bob Zurke	Rate
G	Bob Crosby	Honky Tonk Train Blues	Meade "Lux" Lewis	Rate
H	Bob Haggart And Ray Bauduc	The Big Noise From Winnetka	Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc	Rate
I	Bob Crosby's Bob Cats	Loopin' The Loop	Nappy Lamare	Rate
J	Bob Crosby	My Inspiration	Bob Haggart	Rate
K	Bob Crosby	Swingin' At The Sugar Bowl	Crosby, Rodin, Lamare, Haggart	Rate
L	Bob Crosby	I'm Praying Humble	Bob Haggart	Rate

Notes

Album Set of six 10" 78 rpm records, with individual numbers 2205, 2206, 2207, 2208, 2209, and 2210.
A: Bob Crosby And His Orchestra. From the Musical Production "Porgy and Bess".
B: Bob Crosby And His Orchestra. Featuring Trumpet by Billy Butterfield.
C, D: Featuring [Vocal by] Marion Mann
C, D, I: Bob Zurke, piano; Sterling Bose, trumpet; Warren Smith, trombone; Eddie Miller, tenor-saxophone; Irving Fazola, clarinet; Nappy Lamare, guitar; Bob Haggart, bass; Ray Bauduc, drums.
E, F: Bob Zurke, piano; Eddie Miller, tenor-saxophone; Bob Haggart, bass; Ray Bauduc, drums (Selected by Paul Whiteman for his All-American Swing Band).
G: Bob Crosby And His Orchestra. Featuring Piano by Bob Zurke.
H: Bob Haggart, String Bass; Ray Bauduc, Drums.
J: Bob Crosby And His Orchestra. Featuring Clarinet by Irving Fazola
K: Bob Crosby And His Orchestra. Vocal by Nappy Lamare.
L: Bob Crosby And His Orchestra.

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Comments and Reviews


fixbutte 8th Feb 2016		Bing Crosby's brother Bob was the nominal leader of one the best and most versatile big bands of the time, with a creative core known as the Bobcats or Bob Cats. On this album here, The Bob Crosby Showcase, the members of the orchestra appear in all kind of groups, e.g. The Bob Crosby Orchestra, Bob Crosby's Bob Cats and, selected from these, Four Of The Bob Cats. One side of the album, "The Big Noise From Winnetka", was performed by an even smaller unit, just bassist Bob Haggart and drummer Ray Bauduc. Both this side and "I'm Praying Humble", by the big band, were among the 55 "current best-selling records" that LIFE Magazine listed in its Dec 18, 1939 issue. In addition, there was a third record on the list inspired by this album here, "What's New?" by the Benny Goodman Orchestra, which was based on the instrumental "I'm Free" of the Crosby band featuring Billy Butterfield's shining trumpet. All three numbers were composed by the ultra-creative bassist of the band, Bob Haggart.



fixbutte 5th Feb 2016		All label images, including both versions of the retitled side 2, uploaded. Wonderful album cover for the time, with pictures of the band and lineup information on the inside cover.