[Dixielandjazz] OT-Bing Crosby, Frances Langford?

[Harry Callaghan]

Well, folks, it's like I always say........if all the Titanic's lifeboats
were already gone, I could always count on my man in Sydney to at least find
me a life jacket or preserver..

I took a brief siesta and when arising, thought "Well, I'll just go to the
Internet Movie Base and type in the name of the movie and click soundtrack
and solve this whole Connecticut thing".

Good idea, but it didn't solve it.  I did find the "Once and For Always"
duet between Bing and Rhonda that Bill mentions, a solo by Bing and another
solo by Rhonda. but not the song that we were looking for.

I am, however, motivated to dig out my VHS tape of the movie just to see and
hear a fourth selection on the soundtrack that was performed by Bing, along
with William Bendix and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.  I haven't seen the movie
since it came out 61 years ago but it's my bet that Sir Cedric most likely
played King Arthur

I really love it when I find non-musical performers taking a stab at
singing.   One of my favorites is the duet that Keenan Wynn and James
Whitmore did of "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" in "Kiss Me Kate".

Mystery solved, Jack?

BTW:  Why do they have that middle "c" in Connecticut?  Maybe the state was
named on a Wednesday.

HC


On 2/21/10, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> Hal Vickery wrote:
> > It all depends on the source of the recording.  Bing made a recording of
> the song ("Connecticut") with Judy Garland.  It might also be from the
> "Connecticut Yankee" soundtrack, too, in which case it would either be
> Rhonda Fleming (or whoever sang for her).
>
> Dear Hal,
> Spot on.
> You get the ceegar and my mate Harry Callighan gets the smoke for his red
> herring in making the connection (pun intended) with the 1949 filum "A
> Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".
> The Bing Crosby/Rhonda Fleming duet in that movie was "Once and For
> Always'.
> I suspect that the song Jack Thomas heard was indeed "Connecticut" ((Ralph
> Blane -Hugh Martin) recorded in Los Angeles for Decca [23804] on 9 March
> 1945 with Joseph J Lilley and his Orchestra.
> For some reason "Connecticut", and its backing "Mine" (also with Judy but
> recorded on 31 July 1944), was not released until 1946-47.
> Kind regards,
> Bill.
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