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1960 Bing Crosby album
How the West Was Won was a 2-LP album recorded in July 1959[ 1] at United Recorders, Hollywood, for Bing Crosby 's own company, Project Records. It was released by RCA Victor in 1960 and featured Crosby, Rosemary Clooney as well as other singers. The backing orchestra was conducted by Bob Thompson .[ 2]
The records were issued with automatic couplings, i.e. LOP 6070-1 - sides 1 and 3, LOP 6070-2 - sides 2 and 4.
Reception
Billboard liked the album, saying "This handsome set is sure to attract. The striking cover and informative booklet are perfect complements to the fine album contents which are interpreted by a stellar line-up of artists. The two-disk set offers a heap of Americana in narrated form. Strongest potential."[ 3]
Track listing
Side one
No.
Z
Song Title
Performer(s)
Writer(s)
Time
Exploring the Wild New Land
1.
"Shenandoah "
Chorus & orchestra
Traditional
0:45
2.
"Extract from Carl Sandburg "
Bing Crosby
Carl Sandburg
0:50
3.
"Bound for the Promised Land"
Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney
Traditional
1:34
4.
"En Roulant Ma Boule Roulant"
Bing Crosby & Jack Halloran Singers
Traditional
1:10
5.
"Lupita Divina"
Bing Crosby & The Tarrytown Trio
Traditional
2:00
6.
"The Sioux Indians"
Sam Hinton
Traditional
1:36
7.
"Extract from Carl Sandburg" / "Shenandoah"
Bing Crosby
Carl Sandburg
1:54
Travellers of the Great Plains
8.
"Crossing the Plains"
Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney
John A. Stone
2:23
9.
"Buffalo Boy"
Sam Hinton
Traditional
1:38
10.
"Sweet Betsy from Pike "
Rosemary Clooney
John A. Stone
1:53
11.
"Ox Driving Song"
Jimmie Driftwood
Traditional
1:45
12.
"Will You Go Out West with Me
Sam Hinton
Traditional
1:35
Side two
No.
Z
Song Title
Performer(s)
Writer(s)
Time
Ranchers and Indian Raiders
1.
"Buffalo Gals "
Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney
John Hodges
1:47
2.
"General Custer"
Jimmie Driftwood
Traditional
1:52
3.
"All 'Pewtrified'" (narration)
Bing Crosby
Traditional
1:39
4.
"Will You Come to the Bower"
Bing Crosby
Traditional
2:02
5.
"Bile Them Cabbage Down "
Sam Hinton
Traditional
1:25
6.
"Green Grow the Lilacs "
Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney
Traditional
2:54
The Great Gold Rush Days
7.
"A Ripping Trip"
Sam Hinton
Traditional
1:31
8.
"What Was Your Name in the States"
Jimmie Driftwood
Traditional
1:31
9.
"California Ball"
Rosemary Clooney
Traditional
2:10
10.
"When I Went Off to Prospect"
Bing Crosby
John A. Stone
1:44
11.
"Lane County Bachelor"
Sam Hinton
Frank Baker
1:34
12.
"Old Settler's Song (Acres of Clams) "
Bing Crosby
Francis D. Henry
2:46
Side three
No.
Z
Song Title
Performer(s)
Writer(s)
Time
The Railroads
1.
"Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill "
Jack Halloran Singers
Thomas Casey, Charles Connolly
1:26
2.
"A Railroader's Bride I'll Be"
Rosemary Clooney
Traditional
1:44
3.
"Nine Hundred Miles"
Bing Crosby
Traditional
2:03
Desperadoes
4.
"Billy the Kid"
Jimmie Driftwood
Traditional
1:44
5.
"Hang Me, Oh Hang Me!"
Bing Crosby
Traditional
2:58
6.
"Jesse James"
Jimmie Driftwood
Traditional
1:55
Settlers and Civilization
7.
"Skip to My Lou "
Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney
Traditional
1:30
8.
"Crawdad Song"
The Tarrytown Trio
Traditional
1:31
9.
"Careless Love "
Rosemary Clooney
Traditional
1:45
10.
"Hell in Texas"
Sam Hinton
Traditional
2:26
11.
"Jennie Jenkins"
Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney
Traditional
1:53
Side four
No.
Z
Song Title
Performer(s)
Writer(s)
Time
Cowboys - The Last Frontiersmen
1.
"Streets of Laredo "
Bing Crosby
Frank H. Maynard
2:54
2.
"Down by the Brazos"
Sam Hinton
Traditional
2:05
3.
"Git Along, Little Dogies "
Bing Crosby
Traditional
2:19
4.
"Buckskin Joe"
Bing Crosby
Jimmie Driftwood
2:06
5.
"Red River Valley "
Bing Crosby
Traditional
2:06
The Mormons
6.
"The Handcart Song"
The Deseret Mormon Choir
John D. T. McAllister
2:06
7.
"The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning "
The Deseret Mormon Choir
W. W. Phelps
2:29
8.
"Come, Come, Ye Saints "
The Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir
William Clayton
4:17
CD
Bing's songs from the album were released on CD as Lillis, Love and a Little Covered Wagon (catalog number HLVCD-004).
In 2007 the complete album was re-released on CD by Bear Family Records (BCD-16634-AR).
References
Albums
Music of Hawaii (1939)
Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. One (1939)
Patriotic Songs for Children (1939)
Cowboy Songs (Bing Crosby's first solo album) (1939)
Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. Two (1939)
George Gershwin Songs, Vol. One (1939)
Ballad for Americans (Bing Crosby's first solo studio album)(1940)
Favorite Hawaiian Songs (1940)
Christmas Music (1940)
Star Dust (1940)
Hawaii Calls (1941)
Small Fry (1941)
Crosbyana (1941)
Under Western Skies (1941)
Song Hits from Holiday Inn (w/ Fred Astaire ) (1942)
Merry Christmas (1945)
Selections from Going My Way (1945)
Selections from The Bells of St. Mary's (1946)
Don't Fence Me In (w/ The Andrews Sisters ) (1946)
The Happy Prince (1946)
Selections from Road to Utopia (1946)
Bing Crosby – Stephen Foster (1946)
What We So Proudly Hail (1946)
Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. One (1946)
Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. Two (1946)
Blue Skies (w/ Fred Astaire and Irving Berlin ) (1946)
Bing Crosby – Jerome Kern (1946)
St. Patrick's Day (1947)
Bing Crosby – Victor Herbert (1947)
Cowboy Songs, Vol. One (1947)
Selections from Welcome Stranger (1947)
Our Common Heritage (1947)
El Bingo (1947)
The Small One (1947)
The Man Without a Country (1947)
Drifting and Dreaming (1947)
Blue of the Night (1948)
Selections from Showboat (1948)
The Emperor Waltz (1948)
St. Valentine's Day (1948)
Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters (1948)
Selections from Road to Rio (1948)
Bing Crosby Sings with Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Johnny Mercer (1948)
Bing Crosby Sings with Lionel Hampton, Eddie Heywood, Louis Jordan (1948)
Bing Crosby Sings the Song Hits from Broadway Shows (1948)
Cowboy Songs, Vol. Two (1948)
Auld Lang Syne (1948)
Bing Crosby Sings Cole Porter Songs (1949)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
Bing Crosby Sings Songs by George Gershwin (1949)
South Pacific (1949)
Christmas Greetings (1949)
Ichabod – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
Top o' the Morning / Emperor Waltz (1950)
Songs from Mr. Music (w/ Dorothy Kirsten and The Andrews Sisters ) (1950)
Go West Young Man (w/ The Andrews Sisters ) (1950)
Collectors' Classics, Vols. 1–8 (1951)
Way Back Home (1951)
Bing Crosby Sings the Song Hits from... (1951)
Bing and the Dixieland Bands (1951)
Yours Is My Heart Alone (1951)
Country Style (1951)
Beloved Hymns (1951)
Bing and Connee (w/ Connee Boswell ) (1952)
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1952)
Themes and Songs from The Quiet Man (w/ Victor Young ) (1952)
Selections from the Paramount Picture "Just for You" (w/ Jane Wyman and The Andrews Sisters ) (1952)
Road to Bali (w/ Bob Hope and Peggy Lee ) (1952)
Le Bing: Song Hits of Paris (1953)
Some Fine Old Chestnuts (1954)
Bing Sings the Hits (1954)
Selections from White Christmas (w/ Peggy Lee and Danny Kaye ) (1954)
Bing: A Musical Autobiography (1954)
The Country Girl / Little Boy Lost (1955)
Merry Christmas (later version of 1945 78rpm album) (1955)
Shillelaghs and Shamrocks (1956)
Home on the Range (1956)
Blue Hawaii (1956)
High Tor (w/ Julie Andrews and Everett Sloane ) (1956)
A Christmas Sing with Bing Around the World (1956)
Anything Goes (w/ Donald O'Connor , Mitzi Gaynor and Zizi Jeanmaire ) (1956)
High Society (w/ Frank Sinatra , Grace Kelly , and Louis Armstrong ) (1956)
Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around (1956)
Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956)
Bing with a Beat (1957)
A Christmas Story (1957)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1957)
New Tricks (1957)
The Bible Story of Christmas (1957)
Never Be Afraid (1958)
Jack B. Nimble – A Mother Goose Fantasy (1958)
Fancy Meeting You Here ( w/ Rosemary Clooney ) (1958)
Around the World with Bing! (1958)
Bing in Paris (1958)
That Christmas Feeling (1958)
In a Little Spanish Town (1958)
Bing’s Buddies and Beaus (1959)
Say One for Me (w/ Debbie Reynolds and Robert Wagner ) (1959)
How the West Was Won (w/ Rosemary Clooney ) (1960)
Join Bing and Sing Along (1960)
Bing & Satchmo (w/ Louis Armstrong ) (1960)
Songs of Christmas (1960)
101 Gang Songs (1961)
El Señor Bing (1961)
My Golden Favorites (1961)
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
Bing's Hollywood (set of 15 albums) (1962)
On the Happy Side (1962)
I Wish You a Merry Christmas (1962)
Holiday in Europe (1962)
Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (1963)
Return to Paradise Islands (1964)
America, I Hear You Singing (w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring ) (1964)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (w/ Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , and Sammy Davis Jr. ) (1964)
12 Songs of Christmas (w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring ) (1964)
Bing Crosby Sings the Great Country Hits (1965)
That Travelin' Two-Beat (w/ Rosemary Clooney ) (1965)
The Summit (w/ Dean Martin , Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. ) (1966)
Bing Crosby's Treasury – The Songs I Love (1966)
Bing Crosby and The Columbus Boychoir Sing Family Christmas Favorites (w/ The Columbus Boychoir ) (1967)
Thoroughly Modern Bing (1968)
Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love (1968 version) (1968)
Hey Jude/Hey Bing! (1969)
Goldilocks (1970)
A Time to Be Jolly (1971)
Bing 'n' Basie (w/ Count Basie ) (1972)
Rhythm on the Range (1972)
I’ll Sing You a Song of the Islands (1972)
A Southern Memoir (1975)
That's What Life Is All About (1975)
A Couple of Song and Dance Men (w/ Fred Astaire ) (1975)
Tom Sawyer (1976)
At My Time of Life (1976)
Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium (1976)
Feels Good, Feels Right (1976)
Beautiful Memories (1977)
Bingo Viejo (1977)
Seasons (Bing Crosby's last studio album released during his lifetime) (1977)
A Little Bit of Irish (posthumous edition, recorded in 1966) (1993)
Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas (1998)
On the Sentimental Side (posthumous edition, recorded in 1962; Bing Crosby's latest studio album) (2010)
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