Academy Award Winners & Nominees: 1934-1960 (2000)

About this title: Working closely with the International Crosby Circle and particularly with its American representative F.B. (Wig) Wiggins, MCA Records has issued some excellent Bing Crosby compilations: Their Complete Recordings Together (Crosby and the Andrews Sisters), Bing's Gold Records, and The Voice of Christmas. Academy Award Winners & Nominees: 1934-1960 can be added to this list, compiled and annotated by Wiggins, who co-produced with MCA's Andy McKaie. The idea of compiling an album of Crosby's performances of Oscar-nominated songs is a good one, since he also doubled as a movie star and, as ... read more

Tracks:

1. Love in Bloom [Robin/Rainger]
2. Pennies from Heaven [Burke/Johnston]
3. The Way You Look Tonight [Fields/Kern]
4. Sweet Leilani [Owens]
5. Thanks for the Memory [Robin/Rainger]
6. Only Forever [Burke/Monaco]
7. White Christmas [Berlin]
8. Swinging on a Star [Burke/VanHeusen]
9. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive [Mercer/Arlen]
10. Aren't You Glad You're You [Burke/VanHeusen]
11. You Keep Coming Back Like a Song [Berlin]
12. On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [Mercer/Warren]
13. Mona Lisa [Evans/Livingston]
14. In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening [Mercer/Carmichael]
15. Zing a Little Zong [Robin/Warren]
16. Secret Love [Webster/Fain]
17. Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) [Berlin]
18. Gigi [Lerner/Loewe]
19. Never on Sunday [Towne/Hadjidakis]
20. The Second Time Around [Cahn/VanHeusen]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.