Fancy Meeting You Here
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| Studio album by Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney | |||||
| Released | 1958 | ||||
| Recorded | 1958 | ||||
| Genre | Vocal pop, vocal jazz | ||||
| Length | 38:11 | ||||
| Label | RCA Victor | ||||
| Producer | Simon Rady | ||||
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Fancy Meeting You Here is a 1958 RCA Victor studio album of duets by the American singers Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, arranged by Billy May who also conducted the orchestra. It was issued in mono and stereo, catalog number LPM/LSP 1854. The concept behind Fancy Meeting You Here was a combination of romance and travel, with songwriters Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen contributing introductory and concluding versions of "Love Won't Let You Get Away" as well as a tune called "Fancy Meeting You Here," and Cahn writing special lyrics to standards like "How About You?" and "I Can't Get Started" that reflected the late 1950s and the personalities of the two singers. Billy May conducted, and contributed his usual lively arrangements. All of that served as a setting for the always appealing interaction between Crosby and Clooney.
In 1969, the album was reissued on the budget RCA Camden label under the title Rendezvous (CAS-2330) with a truncated and re-sequenced track listing. This reissue destroyed the concept of the original album, and the abridgment, which lost the first version of "Love Won't Let You Get Away" as well as "Calcutta" and "Isle of Capri," further voided the concept.
The album first appeared on compact disc in 1988, when it was issued by RCA in Japan. Taragon Records reissued the album In 2000, on a "twofer" CD coupled with the 1960 RCA Victor Rosemary Clooney album Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie! In 2001, the album was given a 24-bit Digital remastering and reissued on CD on RCA's Bluebird Records label. Bonus tracks from both Clooney (2 duets with Bob Hope) and Crosby (audio duets with Jo Stafford from a March 2, 1959 "The Bing Crosby Show" on ABC-TV) were also included.
Clooney and Crosby would record a second similar album of duets, That Travelin' Two-Beat for Capitol Records in 1964.
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