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"Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a song written in October 1962, with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne. [1] The pair, married at the time, wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis. [2] Regney had been invited by a record producer to write a Christmas song, but he was hesitant due to the commercialism of ...
The song was nominated for "Best Song" in 1946 but lost out to "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". [2] Dinah Shore's version was biggest in the US reaching the No. 5 spot, while Crosby's version (recorded July 18, 1946) [3] peaked at No. 12. Jo Stafford also had chart success with it and her version achieved the No.11 position. [4]
The song was first performed by the vaudeville singer Rex Weber as part of the musical Americana, [3] [5] which ran from October to December 1932 and was not a success. Three weeks after Americana opened, the song was covered by crooner Bing Crosby for Brunswick Records; it was also covered by Rudy Vallee shortly thereafter for Columbia Records ...
Fancy Meeting You Here is a 1958 RCA Victor studio album of duets by the American singers Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, arranged by Billy May, who also conducted the orchestra. [2] The album was originally issued in both mono and stereo, catalog numbers LPM/LSP 1854.
Crosby and Armstrong worked together many times before they recorded this album, appearing in films such as Pennies from Heaven (1936), Here Comes the Groom (1951), and High Society (1956). They made several radio broadcasts together between 1949 and 1951. [3] The lyrics of the songs were adapted for them by a number of notable songwriters. [4]
"Swinging on a Star" is an American pop standard with music composed by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. [1] It was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1944 film Going My Way, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song that year, [1] [2] and has been recorded by numerous artists since then.
I Can't Begin to Tell You; I Can't Escape from You (Bing Crosby song) I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell; I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You; I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store) I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day; I Love You, Samantha; I Promise You (Bing Crosby song) I Surrender Dear; I Wished on the Moon
America, I Hear You Singing is an album recorded and released in 1964 by American singers Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, backed by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. [2] The album is a collection of patriotic songs , recorded as a tribute to the assassinated president John F. Kennedy .