Fancy Meeting You Here

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Fancy Meeting You Here Review

by John Bush

Rosemary Clooney's full-length collaboration with Bing Crosby and Billy May should've resulted in an electrifying LP, but unfortunately Fancy Meeting You Here doesn't quite meet the (admittedly high) expectations. A baker's dozen of tourist-themed songs with Crosby as a tagalong duet partner and May as globe-trotting scene-setter, the album does include several great teamings: the rousing title-track opener, a robust "It Happened in Monterey," and some great two-part harmonies on "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis." But for every delightful duet between the energizing, melodic Clooney and the mellow, laid-back Crosby, there are a few clunkers -- "On a Slow Boat to China," "Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy)." May's arrangements are inventive as usual, but constant nods to the music of the globe at any mention of a far-flung location soon grows annoying as well as cloying. The peaks are delightful, but the few low points are enough to make listeners wish for an uneventful trip through the plains.

Track Listing

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Fancy Meeting You Here
Sammy Cahn / James Van Heusen
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 02:31 SpotifyAmazon
2
On a Slow Boat to China
Frank Loesser
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 02:40 SpotifyAmazon
3
I Can't Get Started
Vernon Duke / Ira Gershwin
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 03:50 SpotifyAmazon
4
Hindustan
Oliver Wallace / Harold Weeks
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 02:53 SpotifyAmazon
5
It Happened in Monterey
Billy Rose / Mabel Wayne
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 02:44 SpotifyAmazon
6
You Came a Long Way from St. Louis
John Benson Brooks / Bob Russell
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 03:07 SpotifyAmazon
7
Love Won't Let You Get Away
Sammy Cahn / James Van Heusen
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 02:03 SpotifyAmazon
8
How About You?
Ralph Freed / Burton Lane
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 03:14 SpotifyAmazon
9
Brazil
Ary Barroso / Bob Russell
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 03:31 SpotifyAmazon
10
Isle of Capri
Will Grosz / Jimmy Kennedy
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 02:40 SpotifyAmazon
11
Say "Si Si"
Ernesto Lecuona / Francia Luban / Al Stillman
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 02:22 SpotifyAmazon
12
Calcutta
Ray Evans / Jay Livingston
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 02:55 SpotifyAmazon
13
Love Won't Let You Get Away
Sammy Cahn / James Van Heusen
Bing Crosby feat: Rosemary Clooney 03:41 SpotifyAmazon
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