Bing Crosby & Connie Boswell - 'An Apple for the Teacher' video free download

Sharon Kerman

Everything the Tony Bennett duets are not.

Alvin Stearns

Wouldn't it be fun to know how to dance with your honey to songs like this?"An Apple for the Teacher"Performed by Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell(1939)Connee:  You're sophisticatedBing:  I think I'm naiveConnee:  Well, let's play the game that wayBing:  Yes, that's what I believeBing:  An apple for the teacherThat seems the thing to do Because I want to learn About romance from you.An apple for the teacherTo show that I'm meek and mild,If you insist on saying That I'm just a problem child.You're gonna get all my attention,Your wish will be my rule;And maybe you'll be good to me Just keep me after schoolAn apple for the teacher That's how I'd better start, Then after while you may give in And let me bring my heart(Connee repeats)Bing: An apple for the teacher Is always gonna do the trickConnee:  Not if you didn't studyYour arithmeticBing:  I got an apple for the teacherWe're gonna meet with great successConnee:  Well, it won't if you didn't memorizeThe Gettysburg AddressBing:  I got a little bit of glamourAnd charm that's cute and quaintConnee:  I may excuse your grammarAnd believe you was what you ain'tBing:  I got an apple, dig that apple for the teacherThat's how I'm fixin' to startConnee:  Then after a while I may give inAnd let you bring your heartTogether:  Then after a while she may give inAnd let you bring your heart

Rick Greyson

Thanks for posting this. It's one of their duets I hadn't heard before. I got my introduction to the Boswells on their recording with Bing of "Bob White", a similar swing tune. It was a 78 r.p.m. record that my parents owned and the first time I heard it I was a Boswell fan. I was all of 7 years old at the time.

Erik Moody

I fucking love this number. I found it in a pile of old "78's. It was a constant play on my crank gramophone (only device I own that plays "78's) then decided to look it up on here...you know, so I can actually control the volume. lol. Thanks for posting it!

Begbucks

Two of the best!

Peter Hendriksma

Bing was billed as a 'sweet' singer, but at heart he always was a singer who loved his jazz. He made only a handful of sides with Conny, but you can really feel the fun they had recording those tunes. Those voices blended so marvelously. They even matched their vibrato.

James McEwan

Great post - actually recorded 22nd June 1939

FoxyNightmare

The real sparkling gem. Thank you for sharing.

the1musiclad

@dogstoerd - yeah you got me but I was working under the basis of two acts as opposed to four singers so technically it's still ok. :)

Chris Hughes

@the1musiclad A duet between Crosby and the Boswells - impossible! It would have been a quartet...

the1musiclad

This is a lesson in classy jazz singing from the two greatest of their era. 10,468 views is shameful.

hoopjnky

@bearcub410 Born just in time, Cubby. You have the good fortune of choosing from the greatest variety of music ever available. Don't like Nelly? Fitty? Gaga? Leave the 21st Century and choose from the greatest songs and performers of the last century. Even 50 years ago you would not have had this music quite so available. Explore, enjoy, choose your own sound.

bearcub410

one of my favorites just on the eve of the second world war . this is just magnificent born too late

miltsar

she is just extraordinary...the voice...the phrasing...the cool....and they are so perfect together ...I'm still smiling ...thank you !

zephof

I just heard this on the CBC while I was dozing off. I had to hear it again and ran upstairs to my computer. Thanks ten million for putting it on. These are two of my favorite singers. I will never forget the first time I heard Connie Boswell singing Boulevard of Broken Dreams. This was really great of you, I want the CD if it is still available, do you know?

klakkin

Gee,cool upload ...thanks for adding this! have a great day

Oldkiesel

Yes, I love "Between 18th. & 19th. on Chestnut Street too. Big hits in UK were "Bob White" (a Mercer masterpiece) and "Basin Street Blues". And great radio recordings: Connee (a trained musician) had always worked out some super arrangement with John Scott Trotter and as usual Bing would drift in and add his magical ad-libs and harmonizing. A few come to mind: "Easy Street", "Let's Be Buddies" and a lovely song, "Number Ten Lullaby Lane". Ella always named Connee as her inspiration.

ljliljohn

The title is 'Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street', and it is a 'rib joint', not a 'rip joint', and it is available on Youtube. Listen also to Connee on 'In the middle of a kiss', also available on Youtube. Enjoy.

Brian Smith

This is the only collaboration between Bing and Connie that I can find on YT. Anyone know of any other recordings that these two made together?

trooper7h

stlivermore, Connie could certainly swing a tune with the best of them...And being a paraplegic ...she did it all sitting down...What a great trouper! Thanks for your thought provoking comment. :) best wishes, trooper7h

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