Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around was Bing Crosby's fourth album for Decca and his fifth LP, recorded and originally released in 1956 on vinyl as Decca DL 8352. This was a concept album of sorts, as Bing covered some of his musical rivals' big hits, such as Al Jolson's "April Showers" and Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa". The jazz historian Will Friedwald wrote that the album "was essentially Crosby's way of acknowledging that he wasn't the only male singer to create hits and standards". Crosby
Harry Robertson (folk singer) "No Longer Alone" which dealt with the 1872 construction of the Overland Telegraph Line ("Poling in the Dry", "Poling in the Wet", "The Pole"); another entitled "The Sleeper Cutters" which dealt with workers in the timber industry cutting sleepers for the new railway lines ("Hard Timber", "Fettling on the Line"); plus "Scratching for a Living" which documented the history of tin mining on the Atherton Tableland in Queensland. With his family, Harry subsequently moved back to Brisbane where he continued to be an important figure on the local folk music scene as well as a respected singer and composer in