Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings

Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings was Bing Crosby's sixth long play album, but the first recorded with Verve. This was Bing Crosby's first LP with a modern, swinging orchestra in accompaniment. The songs, are also among the rare few that Bing had never before recorded up to that point. Buddy Bregman orchestrated the songs, conducted a hand-picked group of Hollywood's foremost musicians and conceived the idea of the album, which was to be like Frank Sinatras popular swing concept albums, Come Fly With Me (1958) and A Swingin' Affair! (1957) A reviewer for Variety wrote, "Altogether it is quite a musical package -- muscular and tender, driving and romantic, pulsating and lyrical. For Bing Crosby, the artist, it is a somewhat different...