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A bargain Bing offer!Tuesday, July 23, 2002
Another bargain offer from Jasmine who, thanks to Geoff Milne's sterling work, certainly do their best to keep Bing in the record shops. This double CD set has a subtitle. 'The top fifty of his many greatest hits'. These songs are chosen by the man who made the transfers from pressings to the master for these CDs - producer Geoff Milne, who also wrote the booklet notes which are dated January 2002. True, there is nothing new to CD and perhaps the songs chosen would not be your choice, a matter which Geoff Milne covers in his notes thus, 'How is it possible to select just fifty? Well, go ahead and try it, then argue amongst yourselves about whose selection is any better than the others - there really isn't an answer except to say that almost anything Bing sang was good and worthy of inclusion.' The year these songs became top sellers precedes the song title on the CD listings. The compilation is not in chronological order as the songs are arranged to give a well balanced programme. The reproduction quality is excellent, the booklet notes are informative and interesting. Playing time is over two and a half hours.