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  1. "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
    youtube.com/watch?v=hLYkAL_ow0E

  2. "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
    youtube.com/watch?v=hLYkAL_ow0E

  3. "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
    youtube.com/watch?v=hLYkAL_ow0E

  4. "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
    youtube.com/watch?v=hLYkAL_ow0E

  5. "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
    youtube.com/watch?v=hLYkAL_ow0E

  6. Musical Interlude: I'm not much for dancing right now; I still ache from the neck down. But I love watching these lunatics. This is a number from the 1930 musical KING OF JAZZ and is just too fun for words. Also visually dazzling!

    "Happy Feet," performed by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, with the Rhythm Boys (including Bing Crosby, in his first film appearance), The Sisters G (Eleanor and Karla Gutöhrlein), Don Rose, and the Russell Markert Dancers (later known as the Roxyettes, and still later as the Rockettes).

    youtube.com/watch?v=3OD6UvtNN0I

    #MusicalInterlude #Jazz #BingCrosby #PaulWhiteman #TheSistersG #Rockettes #PreCode

  7. JESUS CHRIST.

    "Down on your knees, polishing…"

    And BLESS HER HEART Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) thinks he's still talking about the BOAT…

    AS DID I UNTIL THIS UMPTEENTH VIEWING. 😳💀😆😆😆


    #High-Society #Grace-Kelly #Bing-Crosby #HAYS-CODE?-WHAT-HAYS-CODE?!
  8. The songs from High Society are SUCH a mixed bag.

    Louis Armstrong makes everything he touches gold.

    Frank's two ballads, "You're Sensational" and "Mind If I Make Love To You" are insufferably insipid, and frankly I don't know how the second got past the Hays Code.

    "True Love" has an exquisitely delicious melody, but the lyrics are saccharine and meh.

    "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" puts a grin on your face, and "Did You Ever" is unquestionably the show-stopper.

    "Now You Have (Has?) Jazz" is an ACTUAL BOP and Bing is adorably fun but also impossibly square.


    #High-Society #Frank-Sinatra #Bing-Crosby #Louis-Armstrong #Satchmo #Cole-Porter #Grace-Kelly #Celeste-Holm
  9. If he wasn't so damn American, Bing Crosby would have made a good cinematic Lord Peter Wimsey.

    But it's still the damn cryingest shame in the world that Leslie Howard didn't get to play Lord Peter.


    #Lord-Peter-Wimsey #autocomplete-wanted-to-write-Lord-Peter-Falk #Bing-Crosby #Leslie-Howard #Dorothy-L.-Sayers #Dorothy-Sayers
  10. On the 14th of March 1940: "The Road to Singapore" directed by Victor Schertzinger starring #BobHope, #BingCrosby, and Dorothy Lamour, first of seven such films, premieres.

  11. "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
    youtube.com/watch?v=KQGu08cECug

  12. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a #ChristmasSong written by the lyricist #KimGannon and composer #WalterKent and recorded in 1943 by #BingCrosby, who scored a top ten hit with the song. Originally written to honor soldiers overseas who longed to be home at Christmas time, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" has since gone on to become a Christmas #standard.
    youtube.com/watch?v=ZmjCha_fHNY

  13. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a #ChristmasSong written by the lyricist #KimGannon and composer #WalterKent and recorded in 1943 by #BingCrosby, who scored a top ten hit with the song. Originally written to honor soldiers overseas who longed to be home at Christmas time, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" has since gone on to become a Christmas #standard.
    youtube.com/watch?v=ZmjCha_fHNY

  14. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a #ChristmasSong written by the lyricist #KimGannon and composer #WalterKent and recorded in 1943 by #BingCrosby, who scored a top ten hit with the song. Originally written to honor soldiers overseas who longed to be home at Christmas time, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" has since gone on to become a Christmas #standard.
    youtube.com/watch?v=ZmjCha_fHNY

  15. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a #ChristmasSong written by the lyricist #KimGannon and composer #WalterKent and recorded in 1943 by #BingCrosby, who scored a top ten hit with the song. Originally written to honor soldiers overseas who longed to be home at Christmas time, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" has since gone on to become a Christmas #standard.
    youtube.com/watch?v=ZmjCha_fHNY

  16. "Silver Bells" is a #ChristmasSong composed by #JayLivingston and #RayEvans. It debuted in the motion picture #TheLemonDropKid (1951), where it was started by #WilliamFrawley, then sung in the generally known version immediately thereafter by #BobHope and #MarilynMaxwell. The first recorded version was by #BingCrosby and #CarolRichards on September 8, 1950, with #JohnScottTrotter and His Orchestra and the Lee Gordon Singers.
    youtube.com/watch?v=mWZalWUAeC8

  17. "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
    youtube.com/watch?v=KQGu08cECug

  18. "Careless Hands" is a #popularSong written by #CarlSigman and #BobHilliard, and first recorded in 1948. The song was originally recorded by #SammyKaye with vocals by #DonCornell, and then recorded in 1949 by #MelTormé, whose version reached no.1 on the US pop chart and became Tormé's first major success. It was also recorded by many other singers including #BingCrosby (recorded March 22, 1949) and #AlMartino. There were no less than four charted versions in 1949.
    youtube.com/watch?v=3sTtR7kx_hQ

  19. #Movies #RobinAndThe7Hoods #FrankSinatra #DeanMartin #BingCrosby I love it all - but the bit at 4m35, when Crosby does his little pirouette that cracks Sinatra up, is my favourite. Robin and the 7 Hoods | Style (Sinatra, Martin, and Crosby) youtu.be/YjjzEYLU1rM?...

    Robin and the 7 Hoods | Style ...