Thanks For The Memories

8LP Set* / 4 Cassette Set
Released 1983
Cat No.: RDS10021-8 (RDC91111-4)
RD Code: THA 125 (GTHA-A-125 on box


*Was issued with the bonus LP "Crosby Collection" (RDS10029) 

LP1 Unforgettable Melodies

1 - Thanks For The Memory, from 'The Big Broadcast of 1938' - Bing Crosby

2 - Music! Music! Music! (Put Another Nickel In) - Teresa Brewer

3 - Mockin' Bird Hill - Patti Page

4 - Glow Worm - Mills Brothers

5 - Teach Me Tonight - De Castro Sisters

6 - Sam's Song (The Happy Tune) - Bing & Gary Crosby

7 - C'Est Si Bon - Eartha Kitt

8 - Swedish Rhapsody - Percy Faith

9 - Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson

10 - Greensleeves - Mantovani and His Orchestra

11 - I Love Paris, from 'Can Can' - Michel Legrand and His Orchestra

12 - Ebb Tide - Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra

13 - Charmaine - Mantovani and His Orchestra

14 - Belle of The Ball - Leroy Anderson

LP2 Golden Voices

1 - Au Fond Du Temple Saint, from 'The Pearl Fishers' - Jussi Bjorling & Robert Merrill with The RCA Victor Orchestra Conducted by Renato Cellini

2 - Blow The Wind Southerly - Kathleen Ferrier

3 - Che Gelida Manina (Your Tiny Hand is Frozen), from 'La Boheme' - Mario Del Monaco with Orchestra conducted by Franco Ghione

4 - I'll See You Again, from 'Bitter Sweet' - Hilde Gueden with Stanley Black his Orchestra & Chorus

5 - Vesti La Giubba (On With The Motley), from I Paglacci' - Harry Secombe

6 - My Heart And I, from 'Old Chelsea' - Kenneth McKellar with Bob Sharples & His Orchestra

7 - Voi Che Sapete, from 'The Marriage of Figaro' - Suzanne Danco with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Erich Kleiber

8 - What is Life to Me Without Thee? from 'Orfeo ed Euridice' - Kathleen Ferrier with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

9 - Ol' Man River from 'Show Boat' - Edric Connor with Orchestra

10 - Im Chambre Separee, from 'Der Opernball' - Erna Sack, Max Lichtegg, with Orchestra conducted by Victor Reinshagen

11 - Faery Song, from 'The Immortal Hour' - Richard Lewis

12 - Bluebird of Happiness - Jan Peerce

LP3 Swinging With The Stars

1 - Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller and His Orchestra

2 - You're Driving Me Crazy - Squadronaires Directed by Jimmy Miller with The Quads

3 - St. James Infirmary - Louis Armstrong & his All Stars featuring Jack Teagarden

4 - Take The 'A' Train - Duke Ellington Orchestra

5 - Lover - Peggy Lee

6 - I'm Beginning To See The Light - Duke Ellington with Joya Sherrill

7 - Marching Through Georgia - Mr Acker Bilk's Paramount Jazz Band

8 - That's My Desire - Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton

9 - Little Brown Jug - Glenn Miller and His Orchestra

10 - A Kiss to Build A Dream On - Louis Armstrong

11 - Mountain Greenery - Ted Heath & His Music

12 - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Les Brown & His Band Of Renown

13 - Sabre Dance - Ted Heath & His Music

LP4 The Great Ballads

1 - Friendly Persuasion - Pat Boone

2 - Just In Time - Dickie Valentine with The Roland Shaw Orchestra

3 - My Son, My Son - Vera Lynn

4 - All the Time And Everywhere - Dickie Valentine

5 - Too Young - Patti Andrews with Victor Young & his Orchestra

6 - Prize of Gold - Joan Regan

7 - That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine

8 - Happy Days and Lonely Nights - Suzie Miller

9 - Volare - Anne Shelton

10 - A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins

11 - Zing A Little Zong - Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman

12 - I'm Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher

13 - When I Fall In Love - Jimmy Young

14 - Half As Much - Rosemary Clooney

15 - The Isle of Innisfree - Bing Crosby

LP5 Instrumental Classics

1 - Jeepers Creepers - Eric Delaney with The Bill Shepherd Orchestra

2 - Peg O' My Heart - Harmonicats

3 - Trudie - Joe Henderson

4 - Unchained Melody - Liberace

5 - Flirtation Waltz - Winifred Atwell

6 - Skin Deep - Duke Ellington

7 - Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White - Billy Regis with Perez Prado and His Orchestra

8 - Whistlin' Rufus - Chris Barber

9 - Hot Canary - Florian Zabach

10 - Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams

11 - The Cafe Mozart Waltz, from 'the Third Man' - Anton Karas

12 - Down Yonder - Del Wood

13 - Four Brothers - Woody Herman's Saxes

14 - Britannia Rag - Winifred Atwell

15 - Jamaican Rumba - Jascha Heifetz and Milton Kaye

LP6 Movie Memories

1 - Tammy - Debbie Reynolds

2 - The Man From Laramie - Jimmy Young

3 - My Foolish Heart - Mantovani and His Orchestra

4 - High Noon - Cyril Stapleton

5 - Love Is A Many - Splendoured Thing - Four Aces

6 - Nature Boy, from 'The Boy With Green Hair' - Garry Miller with The Tony Osborne Orchestra

7 - Eternally, Theme from Limelight - Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra

8 - March, from 'Bridge Over The River Kwai' (Colonel Bogey) - Mitch Miller

9 - Three Coins In The Fountain - Four Aces featuring Al Alberts

10 - Busy Doing Nothing - Bing Crosby, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke

11 - As Time Goes By - Petula Clark

12 - Wonderful Copenhagen, from 'Hans Christian Anderson' - Danny Kaye

13 - On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe from 'The Harvey Girsl' - Judy Garland

14 - Thank Heaven For Little Girls, from 'Gigi' - Edmund Hockridge

15 - My Resistance Is Low, from 'Las Vegas Story' - Hoagy Carmichael

LP7 Sweet Harmonies

1 - On Top Of Old Smoky - The Weavers

2 - Always And Forever - Beverley Sisters with Bob Sharples & His Music

3 - The Gypsy - Ink Spots

4 - Near You - Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & his Orchestra

5 - Cuanto La Guasta - Carmen Miranda & The Andrew Sisters

6 - Goodnight, Irene - The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra

7 - You Go To My Head - Norman Luboff Choir

8 - Mairzy Doats - Merry Macs

9 - Perfidia - Four Aces featuring Al Alberts

10 - The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane - The Ames Brothers

11 - Gotta Have Something In The Bank, Frank - Frankie Vaughn and The Kaye Sisters

12 - Sh - Boom (Life Could Be A Dream) - Crew Cuts

13 - Hearts Of Stone - Fontane Sisters with Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra

14 - Someday You'll Want Me to Want You - Mills Brothers

15 - Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries - Hi Lo's

LP8 Showstoppers!

1 - They Call The Wind Maria, from 'Paint Your Wagon' - George London with The Roland Shaw Orchestra

2 - I Got The Sun In The Morning, from 'Annie Get Your Gun' - Ethel Merman

3 - Bali Ha'i from 'South Pacific' - Juanita Hall

4 - Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' - Alfred Drake

5 - Surrey With The Fringe On Top, from 'Oklahoma' - Alfred Drake

6 - Baubles, Bangles and Beads, from 'Kismet' - Peggy Lee

7 - Anything You Can Do, from 'Annie Get your Gun' - Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes and The Andrew Sisters

8 - June Is Bustin' Out All Over, from 'Carousel' - Christine Johnson, Jan Clayton and Chorus

9 - I've Never Been In Love Before, from 'Guys And Dolls' - Robert Alda & Isabel Bigley

10 - I Could Have Danced All Night from 'My Fair Lady' - Lita Roza with The Bill Shepherd Orchestra

11 - You'll Never Walk Alone - Christine Johnson

12 - We Kiss In A Shadow, from 'The King & I' - Perry Como

13 - Stranger In Paradise, from 'Kismet' - Four Aces

14 - I'm Gonna Wash The Man Right Outa My Hair, from 'South Pacific' - Mary Martin