Bing Crosby - "Unchained Melody" (Vintage Parlor Echo Mix)

[wrybreadspread]

like Sinatra, Bennett, & Como, Bing had a way of imparting a balm on the ear and heart of the listener. "Crooner" is an apt description for him.

[ReeMaria]

First time hearing Bing sing this song, and his is officially my favorite cover of it!

[narcomann]

i love this song!!!!!

[narcomann]

1 person is the mother of bing crosby XD

[tuxguys]

A gem of a performance of a really strong tune, and his voice is perfectly offset by the sparseness of the accompaniment.

[8888Rik]

Crosby, to me, remains the greatest voice that ever lived. He had an astonishing range, and the richness of his voice was there in every note.

There have been other great singers (Johnny Mathis comes to mind), but none like him.

I'll never get tired of hearing him.

[bradsgranny1]

I remember hearing this in the 60's when I was in high school, and fell in love with the song. I didn't know until today that it was Bing that did it. Someone else did a really strange version of it, one of the Doo Wop groups, rather like a BeeGees type of sound, with the staccato style. Really strange sounding. This is the version I remember though.

[slimboy41]

Hi,would you happen to have Bing singing `The Rose In Her Hair`,if so would you mind posting it, thankyou.....

[stevers62]

@slimboy41 Sorry, but I don't have that particular Bing performance.

[GrannyTenderstone]

@stevers62 I added this one to my Unchained Melody playlist. Such a timeless and well crafted tune cannot be overdone!! Some songs need their own play list, such as Amazing Grace and some other timeless and frequently covered pieces!

[harryfaber]

I had never heard Bing sing this before, rather better than Jimmy Young!

[MrSnookerman147]

He sings this exactly as it should be sung. Absolutely Beautiful ! Many thanks stevers.

[wuncarlos1]

I to never heard Bing sing this song but he sings it as good as anyone, some how i favour this version now, one of my favourite songs ever, i was in the army when this song came out, sung by Al Hibbller.

[acla9000]

Awwww my goodness... The first time ever I listened to this song was by Roy Hamilton! I didn't even know Bing had already recorded it before - by the way, do you know when he did it? Thanks a million for posting this musical relic!

[stevers62]

@acla9000 Glad you liked it. It's from an amazing box set named "Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56)", so that would be the date range.

[acla9000]

@stevers62 Oh, I really did. And thanks again for telling about the collection. I had listened to several versions besides Roy with Elvis, Tom Jones, Righteous Brothers (whose recording the young generation must know best due to "Ghost" the movie) but Bing's one is really awesome!

[cyanidemaiden]

-.-' and I thought righteious brothers did this

[willpn100]

Bing Crosby is the father of them all. He´s imitated by every romantic singer. The dna of american romantic music is the following: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.

[tuxguys]

@willpn100

Insert Jolson in front of Crosby, in that line of succession, and I agree with you.

[willpn100]

@tuxguys But Al Jolson was not a romantic singer and his singing style was not derived from the italian middle class. Moreover, unlike Al Jolson, Bing Crosby was the first pop singer.

[tuxguys]

@willpn100 Wow! Three inaccuracies in two sentences,hard to do,my compliments:

"But Al Jolson was not a romantic singer"

--I commend to your attention his performance of "You Are Too Beautiful" from the movie"Hallellujah I'm a Bum."

"and his singing style was not derived from the italian middle class."

--Nor was Crosby's or Presley's.

"Moreover,unlike Al Jolson,Bing Crosby was the first pop singer."

--Do your research:With the possible exception of Satchmo,Joly was the very FIRST pop singer.

[theblueangel28]

@tuxguys this is one of the things I love about youtube!!!...because it brings out the knowledge that fans have that isnt really available to the casual listener. but when you get into these rare gems, you also get gems of insight from the people who love them. thank you for enhancing my understanding, especially of the origins of popular singing

question...what does the italian middle class have to do with anything?? what is the relevance to this?

[tuxguys]

@theblueangel28

Your kind words gratify me. I consider YouTube to be the ultimate town square/salon for pop culture geeks such as ourselves.

[willpn100]

@tuxguys Presley, Sinatra and Bing singing style was derived from the italian mddle-class singers who dominated radio and records until early fifties. Source: "Rockonomics". The Money Behind the Music, by Marc Eliot. It´s all there!.

[tuxguys]

@willpn100 I have neither read, nor heard of, the book you cite, although its title makes me dubious about its relevance to the subject at hand, but your insistence on the dominance of "Italian middle-class singers" completely ignores the presence of talents on radio at that time as diverse as Rudy Vallee, Cab Calloway, Billy Eckstein, Gene Autry, Billie Holiday, Cliff Edwards, Fats Waller and Lena Horne, to name only a few, none of whom would appear to be in that tradition.

[willpn100]

@tuxguys Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Fats Waller, Lena Horne were black performers. Gene Autry was country-flavored singer, not pop. Bing Crosby charted more hits than Elvis, Beatles and The Jacksons, combined. Are you a Crosby´s hater?

[tuxguys]

@willpn100

I love and admire Crosby, especially musically, early Crosby.

The vacuity of your observation ignores the obvious: "Pop" is short for "Popular;" Anything that has ever gotten airplay, and sold records, regardless of style, is "pop."

(And do your homework: Autry was a "western" singer, bluegrass, at the time, was "country," and it took Hank Williams, and those that followed, to consolidate the two.

Autry had great POP success with "Rudolph" and "Frosty the Snowman.")

[willpn100]

@tuxguys No. When we talk about music, "Pop" means "billboard", hot 100. R&b for black. Country/western means for white. "Pop" for everybody. One or two hits does not mean that a singer is "pop". Go to allmusic.com and you will see Autry´s styles (cowboy and country). Go to Crosby´s page and you´ll see vocal pop, traditional pop, etc....

[tuxguys]

@willpn100

Who is "we?"

As far as I can tell, the assertion that you're proffering only represents your own opinion.

"Pop" is whatever the public says it is, and, as a result, Billboard has to recalibrate its categories periodically.

The public decides, the market analysts follow.

(If you're a "last word" kind of person, you may have it now: Say anything you want, and I assure you, no matter how ill-informed it is, I shall waste no further time responding to you.)

[willpn100]

@tuxguys That goes for you too!!!!!. I do not think that you are the big master of informations. Billboard is corretct. You are wrong. Do not try to change things. If you think that allmusic is wrong you must complain with it. I agree with Billboard and Allmusic informations!!! I do not agree with you, ok!

[kevincostnermyhero]

God damn...his voice is beyond phenomenal. I can't express the feelings his voice, right now, is creating in me...just absolutely breathtaking.

[romuluscreative]

Bing did everything, and made everything his. A true artist

[noisepuppet]

Is there anything Bing couldn't do?

[stevers62]

@noisepuppet Oh, completely agree! This is not a song I ever expected to hear from Bing, but BY FAR my favorite performance of this song. Simply amazing talent and a sincere, wonderful performance.

[miketallica665]

@noisepuppet Survive a heart attack! Wow, even I found that in bad taste...

[noisepuppet]

@miketallica665 LOL

[ChrisStockslager]

@noisepuppet Hey Jude, clearly. ;)