Gentleman Bing Crosby's Summation Of 20th Century Popular Music And Links To A Few Slightly Crosby-like Country Songs.

https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 3rd May, 2023 | Ozguy1945

[Ozguy1945]

Bing Crosby was born on 3rd May, 1903.

Bing said of his profession: “I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.”

For my personal tastes, popular music’s peak was spread across the middle of the twentieth century: Bing, Count Basie, Glen Miller, Sinatra, Elvis, Hank, The Beatles, Dylan, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, David Ackles, Michael Murphey, The Dillards, Steve Young, Paul Siebel and Willie Nelson.

I rate the zenith of last century’s popular music as lasting from 1965 with the Nobel Prize quality of Highway 61 Revisited to 1972’s return to something like highbrow vaudeville through David Ackles’ critically revered album “American Gothic“, which included Love’s Enough a song that could have been written for Bing:

“Every time you fall in love / that’s the best time of all. / It’s holding sunlight in your hand, / it’s heaven come to call ………”

Apart from the Beatles, Van and Joni, all of my personal favorites listed above from last century were Americans.

God Bless America – the nation which showed the world how to sing.

Bing helped kick that off.

[Fiji Hill]

In one of their hits, the Beatles argued that money can't buy me love. But the Three Waring Girls, aka the Three Girl Friends, argue that one can, indeed purchase love.

Love For Sale--Waring's Pennsylvanians (1931)

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“Love For Sale—Waring’s Pennsylvanians (1931)”

Heck of a song. Here’s another version by Ella Fitzgerald with Cole Porter band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQH19-i8l5c