[78-L] Crosby Blows His Top

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Nov 1 18:22:22 PST 2009


You must have a very clean copy! I've never heard that line. Incidentally, the 
song they eventually recorded (with an instrumental first chorus) was I Wished 
On The Moon. Bing was in terrible voice and he was right, they shouldn't have 
done it.

dl

Glen Richards wrote:
> I've got the one where he sounds drunk, refusing to record whatever was 
> scheduled. I think Jack Kapp was trying to reason with him, but it wasnt 
> working. Crosby talks about going to another studio and someone 
> stage-whispers "Grey Gull" at one point.
> 
> Glen
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> david.diehl at hensteeth.com wrote:
> 
>> During my recent journey to the great white north I had access to a run of The Crosby Collector, a 1970's-80's fanzine and there was a multi-part article on "Fluffs, blowups and bloopers." I suspect the author had something to do with a label called Crosby Blows His Top, of which I have never managed to score a copy. Anybody out there got some?
>> Enquiring minds and all that...
>> DJD
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