SILVER
BELLS
BRING
CROSBY & ROSEMARY CLOONEY
SONGWRITERS: JAY
LIVINGSTON & RAYMOND EVANS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: WHITE CHRISTMAS
LABEL: COLLECTOR’S GOLD
GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG
YEAR: 2010
The Bing Crosby – Rosemary Clooney Show commonly
referred to as just The Crosby – Clooney Show was an American old-time talk radio program.
In 1960, entertainers Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney teamed together for The Bing Crosby – Rosemary Clooney Show on CBS. This
was a 20-minute show aimed at female listeners and was broadcast at 11:40 a.m.
daily.
Crosby
and Clooney would tape the dialogue weeks in advance and songs from the
substantial library built up with Buddy Cole and his Trio would be
interpolated. The songs would usually feature the singers singing separate
solos and often a duet. Songs were repeated on many occasions. Murdo MacKenzie
served as the producer. The shows commenced on February
29, 1960 and continued without a break until September 28, 1962 officially
ending Crosby's 31-year association with radio.
Variety listened to the first show and commented, inter alia, "CBS is
forever trying to revive the good old days of radio, and this time, by some
magic of economics or persuasiveness, they’ve got a highly respected pair of
performers to help them... Program was not inspired but it was fun, and might
just attract a respectable audience."
Murray Schumach of The
New York Times looked at the series in depth in an
article published on October 8, 1961. The article commenced, "Bing and Rosemary
have worked out an almost foolproof system of parlaying work into fun and fun
into money. Periodically they sit down in some pleasant environment and turn
out material for some weeks of the 20 minute radio shows which are heard five days
a week on the CBS network. The approach to these taping sessions is informal,
just as it sounds on the air. There is a script, it is true. There are also
numerous commercials which Rosemary usually rattles off whilst Bing grins
smugly or stares stonily. By the time each of these
meetings is ended, the floor is carpeted with pages of scripts and only the
tape recorders know what is said..."
Amongst the diverse sponsors were Norcross
Greeting Cards, Fels & Company,
GE light bulbs,
Cheerios, Eastern
Products Corporation, Squirt (the drink with the happy taste), Sara
Lee, D-zerta, The Saturday Evening Post,
Four-Way cold tablets, Cat’s Paw Shoe Repairers, Matey, Del Monte,
Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum,
Ry-Krisp, DuPont, Dacron, Royal Edge and Royal Lining
Paper, U.S. Steel and Good Housekeeping.
City sidewalks, busy
sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air
There's a feeling like Christmas
Children laughing, people passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you hear
Silver bells, silver
bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day
Strings of street
lights
Even stop lights
Blink a bright red and green
As the shopper’s rush home
With their treasures
Hear the snow crunch
See the kids bunch
This is Santa's big scene
And above all
The bustle you hear
Silver bells, silver
bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day.
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