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Along with Bing Crosby, separately and jointly, The Andrews Sisters were among the performers who incorporated ethnic music styles into America's Hit Parade, popularizing or enhancing the popularity of songs with melodies originating in Brazil, Czechoslovakia, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Trinidad, many of ...
"Quicksilver" was recorded by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and his orchestra on November 25, 1949 [1] and it became a top 10 hit in February 1950. In late February 1950 it was cited by Billboard as the fifth most popular record on jukeboxes. It peaked in mid March at Number 8 in the singles charts.
" Mele Kalikimaka" (pronounced [ˈmɛlɛ kəˌlitiˈmɐkə]) is a Hawaiian-themed Christmas song written in 1949 by R. Alex Anderson. The song takes its title from the Hawaiian transliteration of "Merry Christmas", Mele Kalikimaka. [1] One of the earliest recordings of this song was by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950 on Decca. [2]
Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and his Orchestra recorded it in 1944, without having seen or heard the song. [11] Crosby entered the studio on July 25, 1944. [12] Within 30 minutes, he and the Andrews Sisters had completed the recording, which sold more than a million copies and topped the Billboard charts for eight weeks ...
Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters recorded the song on November 25, 1949 [2] and it had a good reception from the trade magazine Billboard who said: "Ditty’s a sprightly mountain-musiker that had its innings a couple of years back on straight hillbilly diskings. Bing and the gals are in top form as they harmonize it to a spanking fare-thee ...
Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters includes several songs which had already enjoyed chart success – "Road to Morocco", "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "There's No Business Like Show Business".
Get into the spirit of the season with this list of the best Christmas songs of all time. Fix a mix of popular hits from Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby, ... Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters join ...
Crosby's version with the Andrews Sisters, with backing done by Vic Schoen, ascended to No. 2 on Billboard's Best Sellers in Stores list in the summer of 1946 (blocked by Frankie Carle's "Rumors Are Flying"), spending 7 weeks in the top ten, and ranking by the magazine as the 8th biggest song of the year.