Drifting and Dreaming (album)

Drifting and Dreaming
Compilation album by Bing Crosby
Released Original 78 album: 1947
Original LP album: 1949
Original 45 album:1950
Re-release LP album: 1956
Recorded 1940, 1942, 1945, 1947
Genre Popular
Label Decca
Bing Crosby chronology
The Man Without a Country
(1947)		 Drifting and Dreaming
(1947)		 Blue of the Night
(1948)

Drifting and Dreaming is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby with a South Sea Islands flavour. It is one of less than 10 Bing Crosby albums to be featured on all three speeds (LP, 45 rpm and 78 rpm).

Track listing

These songs were featured on a four-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-578.[1]

Disc 1: (25185)

  1. "Drifting and Dreaming", recorded February 13, 1947 with Les Paul and his Trio.[2]
  2. “It's Been a Long, Long Time", recorded July 12, 1945 with Les Paul and his Trio.[2]

Disc 2: (25186)

  1. "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" recorded July 20, 1940 with The Paradise Island Trio.[2]
  2. "The Waltz You Saved for Me" (Wayne King / Emil Flindt / Gus Kahn), recorded July 20, 1940 with The Paradise Island Trio.[2]

Disc 3: (25187)

  1. "When You're a Long, Long Way from Home” (George W. Meyer / Sam M. Lewis), recorded July 20, 1940 with The Paradise Island Trio.[2]
  2. "When I Lost You” recorded July 20, 1940 with The Paradise Island Trio.[2]

Disc 4: (25188)

  1. "I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland” (Charles F. Harrison / Jack Sadler / Florence Charlesworth), recorded January 19, 1942 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians.[2]
  2. “The Singing Sands of Alamosa” (Bert Reisfeld / Kim Gannon), recorded January 19, 1942 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians.[2]

Other releases

The album was also issued as a 10” vinyl LP in 1949 with the catalogue number DL 5119.[3]

In 1950, the album was issued as a set of four 7” vinyl 45rpm discs (catalogue No. 9-113).[4]

A further LP release took place in 1956 when a 12” album was released with the title “Drifting and Dreaming” (DL 8268). This took the original eight sides and added four more.[5]

Track listing of 12” LP

SIDE ONE

  1. “Drifting and Dreaming”
  2. “It's Been a Long, Long Time”
  3. “Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)”
  4. “The Waltz You Saved for Me”
  5. “When You're a Long, Long Way from Home”
  6. “When I Lost You”

SIDE TWO

  1. “Beyond the Reef”, recorded September 5, 1950 with Lyn Murray and His Orchestra.
  2. “Here Ends the Rainbow (I Found My Love)” (Charles E. King / Johnny Burke), recorded February 9, 1951 with Betty Mullin and Lyn Murray and His Orchestra.
  3. “Sail Along Silv'ry Moon” (Percy Wenrich / Harry Tobias), recorded September 11, 1937 with Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians
  4. “My Isle of Golden Dreams” (Walter Blaufuss / Gus Kahn), recorded June 13, 1939 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians
  5. "The Singing Sands of Alamosa"
  6. “I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland”

References

  1. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "A Bing Crosby Discography". A Bing Crosby Discography. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
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