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Music : Lost Columbia Sides, 1928-1933
Rating: 
- NOT LOST, JUST WAITING TO BE ISSUED AGAIN
To call these "lost Columbia sides" is something of a misnomer. Four were issued on Okeh and five on Brunswick, and Crosby collectors know most of them well enough, from the original recordings and numerous reissues. Moreover, it's stretching a point to argue, as James Ritz does in his liner note, that "it's sadly forgotten that Crosby was amongst America's first great jazz singers". Many of these sides have been reissued relatively recently (see Affinity's 1992 compilation "The Jazzin' Bing Crosby", which provides 48 tracks as opposed to the 34 on offer here). If you don't have that or the subsequent Naxos reissues then this could be just what you're looking for, and even if you do, it does contain some additional recordings that are worth having.
- NOT LOST, JUST WAITING TO BE ISSUED AGAINTo call these "lost Columbia sides" is something of a misnomer. Four were issued on Okeh and five on Brunswick, and Crosby collectors know most of them well enough, from the original recordings and numerous reissues. Moreover, it's stretching a point to argue, as James Ritz does in his liner note, that "it's sadly forgotten that Crosby was amongst America's first great jazz singers". Many of these sides have been reissued relatively recently (see Affinity's 1992 compilation "The Jazzin' Bing Crosby", which provides 48 tracks as opposed to the 34 on offer here). If you don't have that or the subsequent Naxos reissues then this could be just what you're looking for, and even if you do, it does contain some additional recordings that are worth having.