Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Bing: A Musical Autobiography was Bing Crosby's fourth Decca LP, recorded and originally released in 1954.The album was released as both a set of five LPs with 99 songs and a set of seventeen 45-rpm EPs with 89 songs, each for $27.50. Both box sets came in a hinged box with a jeweler's lock and key and included a 24-page discography. Decca released the individual LPs separately starting in 1958.Crosby, in a retirement mood by 1954, got together with the Buddy Cole Trio, a small group formed from members of the John Scott Trotter Orchestra, and re-recorded many of his early hits between April and June 1954. The original Decca masters were used for his hits starting with the 1938 recording of "Small Fry." The new recordings were done at the American Legion Hall in Palm Springs, California.Allmusic's John Bush called A Musical Autobiography "the most laborious exercise in [Crosby's] entire career, narrating a career history and re-recording dozens of songs." It was also issued to commemorate Decca's 20th anniversary. Billboard reported, "Decca's merchandising displays consist of a life like window or floor display of Bing Crosby, mounted on an easel and with Crosby holding a copy of his musical autobiography titled simple, 'Bing.' This set ... is the firm's big push for the fall."A September 1954 Decca advertisement for A Musical Autobiography described it as "the most-talked about [and] the fastest-selling record album in history." NBC's radio network aired a two-hour tribute to Crosby that promoted the album on Sept. 26, 1954, at 6 p.m.Crosby's prose memoir, Call Me Lucky, was published in June 1953 by Simon & Schuster. It was written with Pete Martin.. }
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- Bing:_A_Musical_Autobiography abstract "Bing: A Musical Autobiography was Bing Crosby's fourth Decca LP, recorded and originally released in 1954.The album was released as both a set of five LPs with 99 songs and a set of seventeen 45-rpm EPs with 89 songs, each for $27.50. Both box sets came in a hinged box with a jeweler's lock and key and included a 24-page discography. Decca released the individual LPs separately starting in 1958.Crosby, in a retirement mood by 1954, got together with the Buddy Cole Trio, a small group formed from members of the John Scott Trotter Orchestra, and re-recorded many of his early hits between April and June 1954. The original Decca masters were used for his hits starting with the 1938 recording of "Small Fry." The new recordings were done at the American Legion Hall in Palm Springs, California.Allmusic's John Bush called A Musical Autobiography "the most laborious exercise in [Crosby's] entire career, narrating a career history and re-recording dozens of songs." It was also issued to commemorate Decca's 20th anniversary. Billboard reported, "Decca's merchandising displays consist of a life like window or floor display of Bing Crosby, mounted on an easel and with Crosby holding a copy of his musical autobiography titled simple, 'Bing.' This set ... is the firm's big push for the fall."A September 1954 Decca advertisement for A Musical Autobiography described it as "the most-talked about [and] the fastest-selling record album in history." NBC's radio network aired a two-hour tribute to Crosby that promoted the album on Sept. 26, 1954, at 6 p.m.Crosby's prose memoir, Call Me Lucky, was published in June 1953 by Simon & Schuster. It was written with Pete Martin.".