Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around of them are great songs which have been closely identified with – in fact, almost the personal property of great names in the business – 'April Showers,' 'Blue Heaven,' 'Thanks for the Memory,' 'Ain’t Misbehavin',' etc. Crosby gives them a personalized treatment for sure-fire deejay programming material." All personnel as listed on the Bing Crosby Enterprises and Universal Music deluxe, 22-track CD version: Buddy Cole (piano); Vince Terri (guitar); Don Whitaker (bass); Nick Fatool (drums); Skeets Herfurt, Harry Klee, Ted Nash (alto saxophones); Jules Jacob (tenor saxophone); Robert Lawson (baritone saxophone); Lou Raderman, Henry Hill, Ben Gill, Victor Arno, Toscha
Harry Robertson (folk singer) on their deployment to the sub-Antarctic port of Leith Harbour in South Georgia, over-wintering with the fleet in 1950 and 1951 to carry out essential maintenance and repairs. Over the dark and cold sub-antarctic winter months, for recreation Harry and his shipmates would sing or recite traditional songs and ballads, as well as songs and poems that they composed themselves; Robertson's songs "Wee Pot Stove" (later covered by U.K. folk singer Nic Jones on his 1980 album "Penguin Eggs" under the title "The Little Pot Stove", also supplying the title phrase used for the record), "The Antarctic Fleet", "Blubber Laddie",