Bing Crosby the 1930s, Crosby starred with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour in seven "Road to" musical comedies between 1940 and 1962, cementing Crosby and Hope as an on-and-off duo, despite never officially declaring themselves a "team" in the sense that Laurel and Hardy or Martin and Lewis (Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis) were teams. The series consists of "Road to Singapore" (1940), "Road to Zanzibar" (1941), "Road to Morocco" (1942), "Road to Utopia" (1946), "Road to Rio" (1947), "Road to Bali" (1952), and "The Road to Hong Kong" (1962). When they appeared solo, Crosby and Hope frequently made note of the
Road to Singapore that "Bing and Bob make up a swell team, with a resulting heavy bundle of laughs." John Mosher of "The New Yorker" found the film trivial but wrote that it "saunters along as easily as any of the collection" of comedies playing that week. Frank S. Nugent of "The New York Times" wrote a dissenting negative review, saying the film squandered its possibilities. He metaphorically called the road "cobbled with good intentions", but "altogether too uneven for regular use." Bing Crosby recorded three of the songs for Decca Records. "Too Romantic" was a big hit reaching the No. 3 position