"ARSC Journal, 43(1), 127–130. Bing Crosby Harry Lillis ""Bing"" Crosby Jr. (; May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1931 to 1954. His early career coincided with recording innovations such as the microphone. This allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that influenced many male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. ""Yank"" magazine said that he was the person who had done the most for American soldiers'"
"Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas The Voice of Christmas: The Complete Decca Christmas Songbook is a two-disc collection of Christmas music recorded by Bing Crosby for the Decca label between 1935 and 1956, released by Universal Music Group on October 6, 1998. Crosby was the first popular singer to record Christmas songs, and his 1942 recording of ""White Christmas"" for the movie ""Holiday Inn"" is the best-selling single of all-time. The most prolific period for his Christmas recordings was between 1942 and 1955, including his Christmas songs recorded with The Andrews Sisters. Crosby continued to record Christmas titles for"
"White Christmas (song) ""White Christmas"" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, along with Crosby's, have sold over 50 million copies. Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims"
"Merry Christmas (Bing Crosby album) Merry Christmas is a compilation album by Bing Crosby that was released in 1945 on Decca Records. It has remained in print through the vinyl, CD, and downloadable file eras, currently as the disc and digital album ""White Christmas"" on MCA Records, a part of the Universal Music Group, (reissued in June 1995) and currently on vinyl as ""Merry Christmas"" on Geffen Records (re-issued in September 2014). It includes Crosby's signature song ""White Christmas"", the best-selling single of all time with estimated sales of over 50 million copies worldwide. The album has sold over 15"
"Delta Music also released an album in 1992 on the LaserLight label titled White Christmas often confused with the newer Decca imprint. Merry Christmas (Bing Crosby album) Merry Christmas is a compilation album by Bing Crosby that was released in 1945 on Decca Records. It has remained in print through the vinyl, CD, and downloadable file eras, currently as the disc and digital album ""White Christmas"" on MCA Records, a part of the Universal Music Group, (reissued in June 1995) and currently on vinyl as ""Merry Christmas"" on Geffen Records (re-issued in September 2014). It includes Crosby's signature song ""White"
"The Christmas Album"", charted at No. 13 on the Italian Singles Chart based on digital downloads of the track. White Christmas (song) ""White Christmas"" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, along with Crosby's, have sold over 50 million copies. Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the"
"arranged for the profits from the record to be donated to charity. White Christmas by far is Bing's biggest hit and the entire world's, since it has sold over 50 million copies; No song has ever come close to matching it. There are two versions of this song that were recorded in the studio and many outside of that used for TV and radio. Star Dust (sometimes spelled ""Stardust"") is a song about love. It has over 1,500 recordings and is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century. Bing Crosby made two main recordings during his career."
"end of 2014. White Christmas (film) White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, ""White Christmas"", introduced by Crosby in the film ""Holiday Inn"". Produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is notable for being the first to be released in VistaVision, a widescreen process developed by Paramount that entailed using twice the surface area of standard 35mm film; this large-area negative was used to"
"(1942), ""Blue Skies"" (1946) and ""Easter Parade"" (1948), with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, and ""There's No Business Like Show Business"" (1954). The 1942 film ""Holiday Inn"" introduced ""White Christmas"", one of the most recorded songs in history. First sung in the film by Bing Crosby (along with Marjorie Reynolds, whose voice was dubbed by Martha Mears), it has sold over 50 million records and stayed no. 1 on the pop and R&B charts for 10 weeks. Crosby's version is the best-selling single of all time. Music critic Stephen Holden credits this partly to the fact that ""the song also"
"White Christmas (film) White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, ""White Christmas"", introduced by Crosby in the film ""Holiday Inn"". Produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is notable for being the first to be released in VistaVision, a widescreen process developed by Paramount that entailed using twice the surface area of standard 35mm film; this large-area negative was used to yield finer-grained standard-sized"
"Crosby's signature song ""White Christmas"" on shellac disc record. The 1942 version would only be released only one more time, in ""Merry Christmas"" in 1945 before the song was re-recorded (because the original master recording wore out) and the later version became the standard. Billboard was very enthusiastic saying: These newly issued songs were featured on a 6-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-306. Discs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 are sung by Bing Crosby while Disc 5 is sung by Fred Astaire. On Disc 4, both sing on the track ""I'll Capture Your Heart"". All songs"
"I Wish You a Merry Christmas I Wish You a Merry Christmas was a long-playing vinyl album of Christmas themed songs recorded by Bing Crosby for his own company, Project Records, and issued by Warner Bros. (W-1484) in 1962. The tracks were arranged by Bob Thompson, Peter Matz and Jack Halloran and each conducted the orchestra for their own arrangements. The musical accompaniment was recorded on 23 and 25 July 1962 and Crosby over-dubbed his vocals on October 5, 1962. The album was re-released by Capitol in 1977 (on LP) and again in 1988 (on CD) as ""Bing Crosby's Christmas"
"Singers. In 1942, American Decca released the first recording of ""White Christmas"" by Bing Crosby. He recorded another version of the song in 1947 for Decca; to this day, Crosby's recording of ""White Christmas"" for Decca remains the best-selling single worldwide of all time. In 1943, American Decca ushered in the age of the original cast album in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's ""Oklahoma!"", performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on Broadway, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal"
"by Bing Crosby from the film ""Holiday Inn"", is the best-selling single of all time and speaks nostalgically of a traditional white Christmas. The definition of ""white Christmas"" varies. In most countries, it simply means that the ground is covered by snow at Christmas, but some countries have more strict definitions. In the United States, the official definition of a white Christmas is that there has to be a snow depth of at least at 7:00 a.m. local time on Christmas morning, and in Canada the official definition is that there has to be more than on the ground on"
"Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas is a posthumous 1977 Christmas television special starring Bing Crosby and his family with special guests Twiggy, David Bowie, Ron Moody, Stanley Baxter and Trinity Boys Choir. It includes a duet by the unusual pairing of Crosby and Bowie on ""Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy"". It was Crosby's final Christmas special, recorded just five weeks before his death on October 14, 1977. The special was introduced by his widow Kathryn Crosby and was broadcast in the United States on CBS on November 30, 1977, and in the United Kingdom on"
"“Hark the Herald Angels Sing” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”. I Wish You a Merry Christmas I Wish You a Merry Christmas was a long-playing vinyl album of Christmas themed songs recorded by Bing Crosby for his own company, Project Records, and issued by Warner Bros. (W-1484) in 1962. The tracks were arranged by Bob Thompson, Peter Matz and Jack Halloran and each conducted the orchestra for their own arrangements. The musical accompaniment was recorded on 23 and 25 July 1962 and Crosby over-dubbed his vocals on October 5, 1962. The album was re-released by Capitol in 1977"
"to sell more than a quarter-million copies during the 1962 Christmas holiday season. Bing Crosby made the song into a hit when he recorded his own version of it on October 21, 1963, with the record being released as a single on October 26. Crosby also performed the song on a Bob Hope Christmas television special on December 13 of that year. Over the years, Crosby's recording of the song has been widely played on the radio, and has been available on numerous compilation Christmas albums and compact discs put out by Capitol Records. The song was later recorded in"
"of a free land. Crosby, however, seldom bothers to contemplate his future. For one thing, he enjoys hearing himself sing, and if ever a day should dawn when the public wearies of him, he will complacently go right on singing—to himself."" The biggest hit song of Crosby's career was his recording of Irving Berlin's ""White Christmas"", which he introduced on a Christmas Day radio broadcast in 1941. (A copy of the recording from the radio program is owned by the estate of Bing Crosby and was loaned to ""CBS Sunday Morning"" for their December 25, 2011, program.) The song then"
"Sing Noel.” Delightful package, it should prove a heavy seller for the season."" A Time to Be Jolly A Time to Be Jolly is a long-playing vinyl album recorded by Bing Crosby for RCA imprint Daybreak Records (DR 2006) at Mercury Sound Studio West on Mission Street, San Francisco. Crosby was supported by Jack Halloran and the Voices of Christmas with the orchestra conducted by Les Brown. Four tracks were originally recorded on November 16, 1970 and the remainder were overdubbed by Crosby on September 7/8, 1971 using orchestral tracks recorded on August 31, 1971. Several tracks have the Voices"
"A Christmas Sing with Bing Around the World A Christmas Sing with Bing around the World is an album by Bing Crosby. It was released in December, 1956 by Decca Records. It was taken from a radio broadcast on CBS which was transmitted on December 24, 1955. The program was sponsored by the Insurance Company of North America. Paul Weston and his Orchestra supported by the Norman Luboff choir provided the backing to Crosby's vocals which were recorded on December 19, 1955. Other vocal contributions came from various parts of the world and had been pre-recorded and inserted into the"
"and Buddy Cole. The album was reissued, combined with the 1954 Rosemary Clooney album ""Red Garters,"" in compact disc format, by Collectables Records on June 12, 2001. Irving Berlin's White Christmas Irving Berlin's White Christmas was an LP album of songs by Rosemary Clooney from the movie ""White Christmas,"" released by Columbia Records in 1954 (CL 6338). The album was also released as a set of four 78-rpm records at the same time. This was one of two albums of songs from the movie, neither of which qualifies as an original soundtrack recording, because Bing Crosby (who had a recording"
"since he made his first record in 1931. His biggest best seller is 'White Christmas', 2,000,000 impressions of which have been sold in the U.S. and 250,000 in Great Britain."" ""Nine out of ten singers and bandleaders listen to Crosby's broadcasts each Thursday night and follow his lead. The day after he sings a song over the air – any song – some 50,000 copies of it are sold throughout the U.S. Time and again Crosby has taken some new or unknown ballad, has given it what is known in trade circles as the 'big goose' and made it a"
"for ""Winter Wonderland"". A Christmas Sing with Bing (1955–1962) This was a series of transcribed radio hours hosted by Bing Crosby and broadcast on Christmas Eve for eight years. Insurance Company of North America was the sponsor. Following the demise of the traditional weekly Bing Crosby variety show in the spring of 1954, to be replaced by a nightly 15 minute ‘disc-jockey’ format show, radio listeners missed out on a full-fledged, half-hour Christmas program hosted by Crosby for the first time in twenty years. In 1955, this situation was remedied when Crosby, the undisputed voice of Christmas at the time,"
"created a distinct Christmas chart for seasonal releases. In ""Holiday Inn"", the composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1942. In the film, Crosby sings ""White Christmas"" as a duet with actress Marjorie Reynolds, though her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears. This now-familiar scene was not the moviemakers' initial plan. In the script as originally conceived, Reynolds, not Crosby, would sing the song. The song would feature in another Crosby film, the 1954 musical ""White Christmas"", which became the highest-grossing film of 1954. (Crosby made yet another studio recording of the song, accompanied by Joseph J."
"Lilley's orchestra and chorus, for the film's soundtrack album.) According to Crosby's nephew, Howard Crosby, ""I once asked Uncle Bing about the most difficult thing he ever had to do during his entertainment career… He said in December, 1944, he was in a USO show with Bob Hope and the Andrews Sisters. They did an outdoor show in northern France… he had to stand there and sing 'White Christmas' with 100,000 G.I.s in tears without breaking down himself. Of course, a lot of those boys were killed in the Battle of the Bulge a few days later."" The version most"
"Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas is an album with songs from the 1954 movie, ""White Christmas"". Among the featured artists are Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Trudy Stevens (who dubbed for Vera-Ellen in the movie), with Peggy Lee, who was not in the movie, singing some parts. It is one of the last 78 rpm albums Decca produced. An original soundtrack recording has never been released. This was because Crosby had a recording contract with Decca Records and Rosemary Clooney was signed with Columbia Records and contractually could not record together. This album"
"series. A Christmas Sing with Bing Around the World A Christmas Sing with Bing around the World is an album by Bing Crosby. It was released in December, 1956 by Decca Records. It was taken from a radio broadcast on CBS which was transmitted on December 24, 1955. The program was sponsored by the Insurance Company of North America. Paul Weston and his Orchestra supported by the Norman Luboff choir provided the backing to Crosby's vocals which were recorded on December 19, 1955. Other vocal contributions came from various parts of the world and had been pre-recorded and inserted into"
"Irving Berlin's White Christmas Irving Berlin's White Christmas was an LP album of songs by Rosemary Clooney from the movie ""White Christmas,"" released by Columbia Records in 1954 (CL 6338). The album was also released as a set of four 78-rpm records at the same time. This was one of two albums of songs from the movie, neither of which qualifies as an original soundtrack recording, because Bing Crosby (who had a recording contract with Decca Records) and Rosemary Clooney (with a Columbia contract) could not record together. This album, therefore, was issued by Columbia, while Decca issued an album"
"are the formats and track listings of single releases of ""White Christmas"". Crosby's ""White Christmas"" single has been credited with selling 50 million copies, the most by any release and therefore it is the biggest-selling single worldwide of all time. The ""Guinness Book of World Records"" 2009 Edition lists the song as a 100-million seller, encompassing all versions of the song, including albums. Crosby's holiday collection ""Merry Christmas"" was first released as an LP in 1949, and has never been out of print since. There has been confusion and debate on whether Crosby's record is or is not the best-selling"
"Christmas Song Book (Mina album) Christmas Song Book is an album by Italian singer Mina, released in 2013. In the album, Mina covers twelve Christmas songs, written between 1818 (""Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht"", original version of ""Silent Night"") and 1973 (""Old Fashion Christmas""). Among the others, she sings four Bing Crosby hits (""The Secret of Christmas"", ""I'll Be Home for Christmas"", ""How Lovely Is Christmas"" and ""White Christmas""). Two songs were previously released: ""Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"" (for the 2012 album, ""12 (American Song Book)"") and ""Silent Night"" (for the 2010 movie, ""La banda dei Babbi Natale"" by"
"On 14 November 1995, Oglio Records released a special multimedia CD single of ""Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy"" which contained both the standard full-length audio version and the full-length music video of the footage from the 1977 Christmas special accessible via CD-ROM drives. On 9 November 2010, Collector's Choice Music released a 7-inch vinyl edition of ""Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy"" on red-colored vinyl in the United States. The flip-side of the single contained a Bing Crosby/Ella Fitzgerald duet of the song ""White Christmas"", recorded in 1953. The single was limited to 2,000 copies. VH1 placed the duet at number"
"print in 1833. ""O Holy Night"", with music by Adolphe Adam, originated in French as ""Cantique de Noël"" in 1847. The song that came to be known as ""Jingle Bells"" was published under the name ""The One Horse Open Sleigh"" in 1857. The earliest printing of the lyrics to ""Away In A Manger"" dates back to 1885. Of the songs on the album composed in the 20th century, ""Sweet Little Jesus Boy"" is the oldest, written on Christmas Eve, 1932. In the 1942 film ""Holiday Inn"", Bing Crosby performed ""White Christmas"" and ""Happy Holiday"", with the former spending 11 weeks"
"He had 24 separate popular singles in 1939 alone. He may have been the best selling recording artist with up to 1 billion units sold. Statistician Joel Whitburn at ""Billboard"" determined that Crosby was America's most successful recording act of the 1930s and again in the 1940s. For fifteen years (1934, 1937, 1940, 1943–1954), Crosby was among the top top ten acts in box-office sales, and for five of those years (1944–1948) he topped the world. He sang four Academy Award-winning songs – ""Sweet Leilani"" (1937), ""White Christmas"" (1942), ""Swinging on a Star"" (1944), ""In the Cool, Cool, Cool of"