Bing recorded 225 songs from 1954-1960 with the Buddy Cole Trio for use on his daily CBS radio show. Most of these recordings have now been released commercially. The quality is highly variable. Bing wrote to his long-time music arranger, John Scott Trotter, in the summer of 1954 to explain his reason for retiring from his long-running radio musical variety show. He cited the deterioration of his singing voice and his declining interest in performing. However, later that year he agreed to do a daily CBS radio show accompanied only by the Buddy Cole "Trio," which usually included Buddy Cole on piano or organ, Nick Fatool on drums, Don Whitaker on bass and Vince Terri on guitar. The new recordings were mass produced at marathon sessions for insertion into Bing's daily CBS broadcast.

Ken Barnes (1933-2015), producer of several of Bing's last albums, reviewed the master tapes of these recordings early in 1978 and selected 73 songs to add full stereo orchestral and choral accompaniment, a procedure called "overdubbing." Pete Moore (1924-2013) arranged the new accompaniment, which involved supplementing, and sometimes replacing, the Buddy Cole Trio. The entire collection was released first on LP and in 1987 on 3 compact discs by Silver Eagle Records. These overdubbed recordings are listed below in the order they were orchestrated. The year that Bing recorded each vocal with the Buddy Cole Trio is in parentheses. An asterisk (*) indicates a particularly noteworthy recording. Pete Moore conducted the re-orchestration on all tracks, and the Johnny Evans Singers provided choral support.

In 2009 most of Bing's recordings with the Buddy Cole trio for his mid-1950s CBS radio show were released on 7 compact discs by Mosaic Records with their original Buddy Cole Trio monaural backings.

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