"I Found a Million Dollar Baby", Bing Crosby

Brunswick (Collectors Series). LA 1043, Album No. B-1012 (8 sides-5) [80045 A]. "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" (Harry Warren-Billy Rose-Mort Dixon), Bing Crosby, Vocal with Orchestra. Recorded June 1931. Originally Brunswick 6140. Played on my 1926 Granada (4-4).

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• Brunswick
• Victrola
• Granada
• CollectorsSeries
• BingCrosby
• HarryWarren
• BillyRose
• MortDixon
• 1931
• 1930s

[wonderglory]

This rendition was heard at the opening credits of the second half of, "Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story." When Farrah Fawcett passed away, I immediately thought about the title role she played in that mini-series. Ironically, the real Barbara Hutton died in 1979. She was buried in the Woolworth family plot inside a cemetery in the Bronx, New York. She was nearly penniless at the time of her death.

[fuzzbear6240]

Wonderglory, I didn't know that-thank you for sharing it. Thanks for watching.

Regards, J.

[UBIQUITOUS12]

All your videos are wonderful and show very good taste. Please keep them coming.

[fuzzbear6240]

UBIQUITOUS12, (Sorry for the delay in responding.) Thanks you yet again for your kind words. I'm so pleased you and other have enjoyed my efforts.

Regards, J.

[Grampyland]

One of Der Bingle's best.

[tartymaria]

I love your choice in music and your decor.. I can see me there with a long cigarette holder... Keep it up :)

[Mom1910]

Bing was at top of his game, his voice is fantastic, he's passionate......no one sings better ....period!

[Loumademe]

Very good! I'm not a great fan of the late Mr. Crosby but this tune is exceptional. Thank You for sharing it. M

[29067930]

@chel1028 OMG such a beatifull story.....she was her millon dollar baby!! so romantic!!! with a happy ending!!!

poor Barbara hutton she was´n that lucky she has millons but no love!

[TedMichaelMorgan]

@wonderglory Gosh, this is a terrific recording. Thanks for the commentary. It is also great.

[R2197]

Fantastic! I love it.

[paulkate72]

I think this is Bing's best song. He reaches the heights with this one. Don't know if anyone else sings it, but in my view Bing's is the definitve version.

[baghend]

you crank a mean Victrola Fuzz, and beautiful it is- as is the decor. May I assume you have anti-macassars on the Chesterfield? Watching the vid and listening to Bing felt like being in Aunt Mildred's (nicknamed Toots) parlour, which, in 1957, hadn't changed since 1927 as I remember.

Great tune- and would any one under 50 know what a 5&10 cent store was?

Thanks for doing a nice job on this.

-Bill

[Ezdduf4kuZ]

Whew, talk about naustalgic, I don't get quite the same feeling with the big band sound, like Glenn Miller or Benny Goodman, altho it can compare. It must be the way it sounds coming from that music box/record player. We use to have a wind up record player kicking arounsd and I made a mistake byy playing a coule of my 45's on it a few too many times..the vinyle was turning white, and I kidd you not. We got a better record player soon after that wasn't so hard on those r&r records I was buying