Bob Crosby CD recommendations?

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anton · #16 Post by **anton** » Mon May 02, 2011 11:59 am

Rag Mop is indeed great. It's on my list of close-to-overplayed tracks.

I received two of the Halycon discs today, and, yes, they sound horrible. Almost unlistenable and definitely not DJ-able. Vol 6 was slightly better than Vol 3, but still very poor. Underneath all the distortion and noise I did however hear a nice version of Big Chief de Sota [1936].

Gong-Oh · #17 Post by **Gong-Oh** » Tue May 03, 2011 12:47 am

anton wrote:Rag Mop is indeed great. It's on my list of close-to-overplayed tracks.

Bob (and Bing) Crosby definitely recorded a significant number of songs originally by Western Swing and Country artists, more than any other Jazz artists I know:
Rag Mop (originally recorded by Johnny Lee Wills),
It Makes No Difference Now (o.r.b. Cliff Bruner),
Walking the Floor Over You (o.r.b. Ernest Tubb),
...

... Underneath all the distortion and noise I did however hear a nice version of Big Chief de Sota [1936].

This one?

Lorenzo

anton · #18 Post by **anton** » Tue May 03, 2011 9:13 am

Yup, that's the one (although misspelled - De Soto does not rhyme with Dakota ;)) Sounds like the same transfer.