101 Gang Songs

May 2025 101 Gang Songs studio Bing Crosby 101_Gang_Songs_(album_cover).jpg 1961 December 20–28, 1960 Vocal 1:21:52 Warner Bros. Simon Rady Songs of Christmas 1960 El Señor Bing 1961 101 Gang Songs is an LP recorded in December 1960A Bing Crosby Discography https://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1c.html BING magazine International Club Crosby May 2, 2017 by Bing Crosby for his own company, Project Records, and distributed by Warner Bros. (W 2R-1401) and the RCA Victor Record Club in 1961 with lyric sheets to help the listener join in with the singing. Spread over two records, the album consists of 24 medleys of 101 old songs (hence the album's title) in a sing-along format. ("Gang" is meant in the sense of a group of friends, not a street gang or work gang.) Crosby sings on most of the tracks. Those that are not are marked with an asterisk. The chorus and orchestra accompaniment, arranged and conducted by Jack Halloran, was pre-recorded with Crosby over-dubbing his vocals. This original double LP was released as two separate albums under the titles Join Bing in a Gang Song Sing Along in September 1961 and Join Bing and Sing Along-51 Good Time Songs in January 1962.bingcrosby.com http://bingcrosby.com/bing-bio/entertainer/bing-the-recording-star/project-records bingcrosby.com July 31, 2015 July 23, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130723051428/http://bingcrosby.com/bing-bio/entertainer/bing-the-recording-star/project-records dead The albums were released on CD in 2017 by Sepia Records.Sepia Records http://www.sepiarecords.com/sepia1309.html Sepia Records April 2, 2017 Selected tracks from the albums and from the earlier Join Bing and Sing Along record later were re-dubbed over a children's chorus, arranged and conducted by Halloran, which was recorded on May 17–19, 1961. It was issued later to children's camps as Sing Along with Bing.Reynolds Fred The Crosby Collection 1926–1977 1986 John Joyce Gateshead, UK 316 Reception Variety reviewed the album by writing "Bing Crosby is slowly moving into Mitch Miller's territory. Crosby's first sing along package did quite well in the market and this compilation of 50 faves has a good chance to do even better. The formula is light and simple and with Crosby leading the way the sing-along is easy to follow."Variety August 2, 1961 Album reviews 82 https://archive.org/details/variety-1961-08/page/82/mode/1up?view=theater August 5, 2023 Archive.org High Fidelity Magazine wrote "Mitch Miller may have started (or at least resurrected) the 'sing-along' craze, but it has taken the Old Master to supply the definitive triumph of this genre. He's in his jauntiest form here, leading a usually robust chorus, backed by a vigorously steady rhythm section in performances which imperiously demand participation."High Fidelity 1961 10 7–12 Track listing November 2020 Part One – Side One 20:01 Shine On, Harvest Moon""That's Where My Money Goes""Harrigan""Listen to the Mocking Bird Nora Bayes, Jack NorworthR.P. Lilly, Walter DanielsGeorge M. Cohan Alice Hawthorne, Richard Milburn 3:36 Flow Gently, Sweet Afton""Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms""Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes Robert Burns, Jonathan E. SpilmanThomas MooreBen Jonson 3:45 Sweet Rosie O'Grady""My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon""Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway""Goodbye, My Lover, Goodbye* Maude NugentJames ThorntonGeorge M. CohanT. H. Allen 2:56 When the Saints Go Marching In""Little David, Play on Your Harp"Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho""Hand Me Down My Walking Cane""Ezekiel Saw the Wheel Katharine Purvis, James Milton BlackTraditionalTraditionalJames A. BlandTraditional 3:12 While Strolling Through the Park One Day""Today Is Monday""Big Rock Candy Mountain""Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be?""Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? Ed HaleyTraditionalHarry McClintockTraditionalSeptimus Winner 3:31 Annie Laurie""Loch Lomond""Bluebells of Scotland""Comin' Thro' the Rye William DouglasTraditionalDora JordanRobert Burns 3:01 Part One – Side Two 20:05 Hello! Ma Baby""The Girl I Left Behind Me""(Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey""Wait for the Wagon""Row, Row, Row Your Boat* Joseph E. Howard, Ida EmersonTraditionalHughie CannonTraditionalTraditional 3:19 Sweet Adeline""On Top of Old Smoky""Down in the Valley""In the Good Old Summer Time* Richard H. Gerard, Harry ArmstrongTraditionalTraditional George Evans, Ren Shields 3:36 This Old Man""Schnitzelbank""Pop Goes the Weasel""Careless Love TraditionalTraditionalTraditionalTraditional 3:11 Li'l Liza Jane""Cindy""Where Did You Get That Hat?""So Long Mary""Three Blind Mice TraditionalTraditionalJoseph J. Sullivan George M. CohanTraditional 3:22 Anchors Aweigh""Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!""Blow the Man Down""For He's a Jolly Good Fellow Charles A. Zimmermann, Alfred Hart MilesGeorge F. RootTraditionalTraditional 2:46 Love's Old Sweet Song""Kathleen Mavourneen*""Juanita James Lynam Molloy, G. Clifton Bingham Frederick Crouch, Marion CrawfordCaroline Norton 3:51 Part Two – Side One 21:16 My Wild Irish Rose""Come Back to Erin""Killarney""The Minstrel Boy Chauncey Olcott ClaribelMichael William Balfe, Edmund FalconerThomas Moore 3:42 In the Gloaming""Stars of the Summer Night"*"Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming Annie Fortescue Harrison, Meta OrredIsaac B. Woodbury Stephen Foster 3:35 Little Annie Rooney""Du, du liegst mir im Herzen""Ach Du Lieber Augustine""Lovely Evening""Goodnight to You All Michael NolanTheobald BoehmMarx AugustinTraditionalTraditional 3:25 She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain""Our Boys Will Shine Tonight""The Gospel Train""Walk Together Children""The Nut-Brown Maid TraditionalTraditionalTraditionalTraditionalTraditional 3:23 Casey Jones""Polly Wolly Doodle""The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo""I've Been Working on the Railroad""Asleep in the Deep Eddie Newton, Wallace Saunders, T. Lawrence SeibertTraditionalFred GilbertTraditionalArthur J. Lamb, Henry W. Petrie 3:55 The Battle Hymn of the Republic""America" (chorus only)"When Johnny Comes Marching Home""America the Beautiful William Steffe, Julia Ward HoweSamuel Francis SmithLouis Lambert Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward 3:16 Part Two – Side Two 20:30 There Is a Tavern in the Town""Oh! Susanna""Maryland, My Maryland""Carry Me Back to Old Virginny""The Bear Went Over the Mountain TraditionalStephen FosterJames Ryder RandallJames A. BlandTraditional 3:12 Gumtree Canoe""Dear Evelina""Sweet and Low* (chorus only) A.F. Winnemore, S.S. SteeleTraditionalJoseph Barnby, Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3:13 My Gal Sal""I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard""School Days"*"Abdul Abulbul Amir Paul DresserHenry W. Petrie, Philip Wingate Will Cobb, Gus EdwardsPercy French 3:25 Heaven, Heaven""Mary, Don't You Weep""Jacob's Ladder"*"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen""Roll, Jordan, Roll TraditionalTraditionalTraditionalTraditionalCharles Wesley 3:24 O Sole Mio""Funiculì, Funiculà""My Grandfather's Clock"""Keemo Kimo Giovanni Capurro, Eduardo di Capua Luigi Denza, Edward Oxenford Henry Clay WorkTraditional 3:43 Sweet Genevieve""Santa Lucia""In the Evening by the Moonlight""Goodnight, Ladies Henry TuckerTeodoro Cottrau James A. BlandEdwin Pearce Christy 3:33 *Non-Bing – orchestra and chorus only References Category:1961 albums Category:Bing Crosby albums Category:Warner Records albums Category:Sing-along albums