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Crosby recorded a solo version of the song, with different lyrics, on June 10, 1942, accompanied by Vic Schoen and his orchestra. [1] Later, on December 8, 1944, Crosby and Hope recorded a duet version [1] that briefly reached the No. 21 position in the Billboard in July 1945. [2] The song was included as #95 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. [3]
"It's Always You", performed by Bing Crosby "Birds of a Feather" was written to be sung by Crosby but ultimately it was only included in background music. All lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Bing Crosby recorded a number of the songs for Decca Records. [4] Crosby's songs were also included in the Bing's Hollywood series.
They wrote the song. [3] The first recording of "Swinging on a Star", with Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra, took place in Los Angeles on February 7, 1944, and was released as Decca Records on Disc No. 18597 paired with "Going My Way". The song topped the US charts in 1944 and Australian charts in 1945.
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.
Selections from Going My Way is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in late 1945 featuring songs that were presented in the American musical comedy-drama film Going My Way. This was the first release of one of Crosby's best songs throughout his career, "Swinging on a Star", on shellac disc record.
"It's Always You" is a song written by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Johnny Burke (lyrics) for the 1941 film Road to Zanzibar. In the film it was sung by Bing Crosby [1] to Dorothy Lamour as they paddled a canoe up a jungle river. It was also used briefly in a comedy scene in the film as a quasi-requiem for Lamour's character, who was ...
Quicksilver is a song, which became a hit for Bing Crosby in 1950. It was written by Eddie Pola, George Wyle and Irving Taylor.. A composition of the same name by jazz pianist Horace Silver was first recorded in 1952 and has become most associated with him.
"The Bells of St. Mary's" is a 1917 popular song. The music was written by A. Emmett Adams, the lyrics [1] by Douglas Furber, following a visit to St. Mary's Church, Southampton, England. [2] It was published by the London company Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew. The song was revived in 1945, in the film of the same name, by Bing Crosby and Ingrid ...