Songs that mention Bing ...

(from contributions to the BCIM Discussion Board and from BING magazine #43 courtesy of Malcolm MacFarlane.)

AIN'T WE GOT FUN - Hope / Whiting
("the poor get Crosby")
YOU OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES (parody) - Al Bowlly
("if I could sing like Bing in a way that is nonchalant")
ONLY FOREVER - Al Bowlly / Jimmy Messini
("direct from Crosby we bring it to you")
I THINK I CAN - Jack Buchanan
(".. and maybe sing like Bing")
BUT DEFINITELY - Shirley Temple
("When you're crooning the blue of the day and whistling the gold of the dawn")
SWEET SIXTEEN - Judy Garland
("I decided to join a monastery and would have too if it had not been for Bing Crosby")
LOVE IS ON THE AIR TONIGHT - Dick Powell (from film?)
("You may sound like Bing to her but what if she likes Rudy Vallee")
OF BING WE SING - Bob Hope plus another
SANTA CLAUS & POPCORN - Merle Haggard
("...Crosby singing Christmas white")
SO LONG, BING - J. J. Barrie
(as in title)
THE SONG'S GOTTA COME FROM THE HEART - Durante / Sinatra
("Well you can sing as good as Bing")
MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME - Nat King Cole / Woody Herman
(" my baby's no Crosby fan")
ENTRANCE OF ERIC - From Cole Porter show JUBILEE
("..every time we hear Bing Crosby croon..")
IT'S CROSBY, WHO ELSE COULD IT BE? - Pam Harrigan
As in title
BECAUSE IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME - Buck Owen
("Now is the time for White Christmas with Bing")
DOING THE BING - Bing Crosby
CROSBY CALYPSO - unknown artist
(a tribute to Bing and wife Dixie)
EVEN A CROONER MUST EAT - Max Bacon
Comedy song with reference to "inviting Bing to tea"
HAPPY BLUES - Stan Kenton / Benny Goodman
("Some people mistake me for another guy named Bing")
THE BOY FROM NEW ORLEANS - Louis Armstrong
("In Hollywood I took my place with my friend Bing and Princess Grace")
TAKING THE STEPS TO RUSSIA -
From 1938 Cole Porter musical 'LEAVE IT TO ME'
("I'll give 'em Bob Crosby and Bing")
GIVE ME THE LAND - dropped from Cole Porter musical SILK STOCKINGS
("Give me the land of Ezio and Bing")
IF YOU FEEL LIKE SINGING, SING - from "Summerstock"
("Not everyone can be a Bing, so if you feel like singing, sing")
GOTTA BE THIS OR THAT - Ella Fitzgerald / Benny Goodman
("gotta be Bing or Frank"
When Bing sang the song he changed it to "gotta be Haymes or Frank.")
THESE FOOLISH THINGS - Sinatra for Columbia
("The song that Crosby sings...")
WHERE DID THE MUSIC GO? - Tony Bennett
OLD MAN RIVER - Frank Sinatra
During Sinatra's tour of Britain in 1953 he sang a version of Old man river, which included "Old Man Crosby He Just Keeps Rolling Along."

SHE'S MY BABY - Ernie Ford
IF I COULD SING LIKE BING - Dean Martin (1953 Capitol)
INKA DINKA DOO - Jimmy Durante
("That note was given to me by Bing Crosby ...")
CROSBY, THE WELL DRESSED MAN - Jimmy Durante
OPUS ONE - The Mills Bros
SING BING SING - Louis Prima (renamed "Sing, Sing, Sing" at Bing's request)
MR CROSBY & MR MERCER - Bing & Johnny Mercer (adapted from "Gallagher & Sheen")
MY KID'S A CROONER
RUM AND COCA COLA - Andrews Sisters
("When she hear Der Bingle croon ...")
DICK HAYMES, DICK TODD AND COMO - Frank Sinatra (V. Disc)
WHEN THE GUARDSMAN STARTED CROONING ON PARADE
TOP BILLING - Bing & Fred Astaire
CROSBY, COLUMBO AND VALLEE (from an early '30s cartoon and recorded by Dick Robertson in 1932)
I'VE GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING - Louis Prima on Capitol
EENIE MEENIE MINEY MOE - Billie Holiday
BING CROSBY - by calypso star "The Lion" in the 1940s, revived by Van Dyke Parks in the late '60s
I LOVE EVERYBODY BUT YOU - written & sung by Fred Astaire in 1975
IT'S US AGAIN - special material written for and recorded by Steve & Eydie in the early 1960s
WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN - sung by Eddie Cantor in the film "Kid Millions" in 1934
("I'll have Bing Crosby singing boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo")
'TIS AUTUMN - Dick Todd (the last lines when he whistles and interrupts with something like '...that's Crosby!').
IF BING WOULD ONLY SING TO ME - Music by Eric Aitken.
BING - by Paul Mackay (a single issued just after Bing's death).

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