Drifting and Dreaming (album)

Drifting and Dreaming
Compilation album by Bing Crosby
Released	1947 (original 78rpm album) 1949 (original LP album) 1950 (original 45rpm album) 1956 (re-release LP album)
Recorded	1940, 1942, 1945, 1947
Genre	Popular
Length	24:18 (original release) 35:41 (re-release)
Label	Decca
Bing Crosby chronology
The Man Without a Country (1947) Drifting and Dreaming (1947) Blue of the Night (1948)

Drifting and Dreaming is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby with a South Sea Islands flavour. It is one of less than 10 Bing Crosby albums to be featured on all three speeds (LP, 45 rpm and 78 rpm).

Track listing

Original release

These songs were featured on a four-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-578.

Disc 1 (25185):
A. "Drifting and Dreaming"
B. "It's Been a Long, Long Time"
Disc 2 (25186):
A. "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)
B. "The Waltz You Saved for Me"
Disc 3 (25187):
A. "When You're a Long, Long Way from Home"
B. "When I Lost You"
Disc 4 (25188):
A. "I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland"
B. "The Singing Sands of Alamosa"

Other releases

The album was also issued as a 10" vinyl LP in 1949 with the catalogue number DL 5119.

In 1950, the album was issued as a set of four 7" vinyl 45rpm discs (catalogue No. 9-113).

A further LP release took place in 1956 when a 12" album was released with the title "Drifting and Dreaming" (DL 8268). This took the original eight sides and added four more.

Track listing of 12" LP

Recording dates follow song titles.

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Performed with	Length
1.	"Drifting and Dreaming" (February 13, 1947)	Haven Gillespie, Loyal Curtis, Edwin R Schmidt, Egbert van Alstyne	Les Paul and his Trio	2:57
2.	"It's Been a Long, Long Time" (July 12, 1945)	Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn	Les Paul and his Trio	2:54
3.	"Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (July 20, 1940)	Roy Turk, Fred E Ahlert, Bing Crosby	The Paradise Island Trio	2:59
4.	"The Waltz You Saved for Me" (July 20, 1940)	Wayne King, Emil Flindt, Gus Kahn	The Paradise Island Trio	3:16
5.	"When You're a Long, Long Way from Home" (July 20, 1940)	George W. Meyer, Sam M. Lewis	The Paradise Island Trio	3:08
6.	"When I Lost You" (July 20, 1940)	Irving Berlin	The Paradise Island Trio	3:09

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Performed with	Length
1.	"Beyond the Reef" (September 5, 1950)	Jack Pitman	Lyn Murray and His Orchestra	2:54
2.	"Here Ends the Rainbow (I Found My Love)" (February 9, 1951)	Charles E. King, Johnny Burke	Betty Mullin and Lyn Murray and His Orchestra	2:51
3.	"Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon" (September 11, 1937)	Percy Wenrich, Harry Tobias	Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians	2:44
4.	"My Isle of Golden Dreams" (June 13, 1939)	Walter Blaufuss, Gus Kahn	Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians	2:54
5.	"The Singing Sands of Alamosa" (January 19, 1942)	Bert Reisfeld, Kim Gannon	Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians	3:08
6.	"I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland" (January 19, 1942)	Charles F. Harrison, Jack Sadler, Florence Charlesworth	Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians	2:47