Bing Crosby Christmas Songs & Music
Bing Crosby's faith
was sealed when he recorded Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas' in
1942. It has since sold more copies than any other song in the
history of recorded music, 100 million at last count. Think of Bing
Crosby and 'White Christmas' will probably pop into your head and
what a lovely tune to have in there. It may have rich orchestral
parts but 'White Christmas' is still a very simple song. Mostly it
is just Bing and the lyrical imagery he conjures with those deep
vocal tones. Bing recorded 7 Christmas albums of enormous variety
from 1945 to 1971. The quality hardly dipped throughout the decades
with the final album 'A Time To Be Jolly' being amongst the most
cherisable Christmas albums ever recorded.
Of course Crosby's
repertoire extends far beyond just one song and his stock of
Christmas ditties alone is impressively expansive.
Bing Crosby's Christmas Singles
1928: Silent Night,
Holy Night
1942: White
Christmas
1943: I'll Be Home
For Christmas, Jingle Bells
1945: The Bells of
St. Mary's
1947: Santa Claus Is
Comin' To Town
1950: Rudolph, the
Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Crosby Christmas, A Marshmallow World
1952: Silver
Bells
1957: How Lovely Is
Christmas
1960: Adestes
Fideles
1982: Peace On
Earth/Little Drummer Boy (with David Bowie)