Label: King of Comedy Associates
Cat.#: KOC-1226
Country: United States
Format: 12” 33rpm 3-LP Vinyl
Release Date: 1979
UPN: None
Notes:
A Three LP, limited collector’s boxset, commemorating Bob Hope’s career. Features performances and commentary by Bob Hope, John Wayne, Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, Debbie Reynolds, Sammy Davis, Jr., The Supremes, Red Skelton, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, George Burns, and more. Also includes a 48 page book chock full of rare photos and a biography of Bob Hope.
Track Listing:
Side One:
Bing Crosby: “Buttons and Bows”, “Please”, Swinging on a Star”, Thanks for the Memory”, “White Christmas”, “Put It There Pal”.
Al Jolson: “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”, “Always”.
Jimmy Durante: “Start Off Each Day With A Song”, “The Boys With The Proboscus”.
Eddie Cantor: “Eddie and Bob”, “Carolina in the Morning”.
Judy Garland: “Thanks for the Memory”.
Side Two:
Debbie Reynolds, Debbie Boone, Pat Boone, Sammy Davis, Jr.: “H-O-P-E”
The Supremes: “You, Wonderful You”, “I’m Glad There Is You”, “I Believe in You”, Younger Than Springtime”, “Mad About The Boy”, “I Don’t Know Why”, “I Could Write A Book”, “I Feel Pretty”, “Mr. Wonderful”, “Ain’t We Got Fun”.
Ann Margaret: “One”
The Muppets
Dyan Cannon, Burt Reynolds, Dionne Warwick: “Elegance”
Raquel Welch: “Stayin’ Alive”
Bob Hope: “Nothing Can Compare With You”
Pearl Bailey: “Bye, Bye Baby”
Shirley Ross: “Thanks for the Memory”
Side Three:
George Burns: “That’s the Way it Was in Vaudeville”
Danny Thomas
Doris Day, Jimmy Durante: “Mad About That Man”
Fred Allen
Groucho Marx
Jack Benny
Jerry Colonna: “I Love Life”
Jimmy Stewart
George Jessell: “Hello, Hello, Hello”
Ethel Merman: “It’s D’Lovely”
James Cagney: “Yankee Doodle Boy”
Side Four:
Bing Crosby: “Teamwork”, “Road to Morocco”
Dorothy Lamour: “We Life Working With Each Other”
Red Skelton, Eddie Cantor
Fibber McGee and Molly
Lum and Abner
Amos and Andy
Sammy Davis, Jr.: “Tea for Two”
Maurice Chevalier: “Louise”
Bob Hope: “April in Paris”
Side Five:
On Tour for the U.S.O.
John Wayne: Commentary
Frances Langford: “When the lights go on again all over the World”
Irving Berlin
Jerry Colonna
John Wayne: “Have Yourself A Merry Christmas”
Judy Garland: “Silent Night”
Side Six:
Bob Hope and the Presidents
George C. Scott
Dolores Hope: “Just the Way You Are”
Alan King
President John F. Kennedy
Lucille Ball: “Hey, Look Him Over”
Mary Martin: “Thanks for the Memory”
Bob Hope