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Bing & Satchmo
Studio album by
Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong
ReleasedOctober 1960 (1960-10)
RecordedJune 28–30, 1960[1]
StudioHollywood, Los Angeles
GenreVocal jazz, traditional pop
Length38:51
LabelMGM
ProducerSimon Rady
Bing Crosby chronology
Join Bing and Sing Along
(1960) 		Bing & Satchmo
(1960) 		Songs of Christmas
(1960)
Louis Armstrong chronology
Louie and the Dukes of Dixieland
(1961) 		Bing & Louis
(1960) 		Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington: The Great Summit/Complete Sessions
(1961)

Bing & Satchmo is a 1960 studio album by Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong that was arranged and conducted by Billy May.[2] The album was recorded for Crosby's label, Project Records, and released by MGM.

Crosby and Armstrong worked together many times before they recorded this album, appearing in films such as Pennies from Heaven (1936), Here Comes the Groom (1951), and High Society (1956). They made several radio broadcasts together between 1949 and 1951.[3]

The lyrics of the songs were adapted for them by a number of notable songwriters.[4]

Eleven tracks were issued on the LP, excluding "(Up A) Lazy River" because Armstrong had recorded it for another company. Permission was granted for it to be included in the All Star Festival LP issued in 1963 on behalf of the United Nations to help refugees around the world.[5] Johnny Mercer sings a few lines with the chorus on this track.

"Dardanella" and "Muskrat Ramble" were released as singles in October 1960. Billboard magazine commented that the tracks would be popular with "jocks".[6]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

The Billboard magazine review from 31 October 1960 selected the album for its pop spotlight and called it a "group of nostalgic tunes that provide excellent easy listening programming."[7]

Variety said that the album "provides a lot of listening pleasure. Both are masters of their craft and know how to pack a vocal punch with seemingly little effort.[8]

John Bush on Allmusic.com gave the album three and half stars out of five. Bush said that "Could anything but warmth and playfulness result when the two most seminal, expressive voices of the 20th century found the room to stretch out on a full LP together?". Bush reserved criticism for the vocal chorus that appears on the album.[2]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Muskrat Ramble"Kid Ory, Ray Gilbert3:03
2."Sugar (That Sugar Baby O' Mine)"Maceo Pinkard, Edna Alexander, Sidney D. Mitchell5:13
3."The Preacher"Horace Silver2:21
4."Dardanella"Fred Fisher, Felix Bernard, Johnny S. Black2:50
5."Let's Sing Like a Dixieland Band"Alan Bergman2:21
6."Way Down Yonder in New Orleans"Joe Turner Layton, Henry Creamer3:09
7."Brother Bill"Louis Armstrong3:01
8."Little Ol' Tune"Johnny Mercer3:07
9."At the Jazz Band Ball"Nick LaRocca, Larry Shields, Johnny Mercer3:02
10."Rocky Mountain Moon"Johnny Mercer3:42
11."Bye Bye Blues"Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett, Bert Lown, and Chauncey Gray3:48
12."(Up a) Lazy River" (bonus song on 2009 CD reissue)Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin3:14

Personnel

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Production

  • Simon Rady – record producer
  • Wild Bill Thompson – choir arrangement

Reissue CD

  • Will Friedwald – liner notes
  • Anaida Garcia – associate producer
  • Hugh Fordin – reissue producer

References

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  1. ^ Willems, Jos (1 January 2006). All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810857308. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Bush, John. "Bing & Satchmo – Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  3. ^ Stein, Daniel (3 May 2012). Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472051809. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Rady Cutting Bing-Satchmo Dust Package". Google Books. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 12 October 1959. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  5. ^ Reynolds, Fred. The Crosby Collection 1926-1977 (Part Four: 1951-1960 ed.). Fred Reynolds. p. 304.
  6. ^ "Billboard". Google Books. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 24 October 1960. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  7. ^ "Discourse". Google Books. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 31 October 1960. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  8. ^ "Variety". Variety. November 30, 1960.
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