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This category is for Christmas music albums released in the ... 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Subcategories. This category has the following ...
Merry Christmas is a Christmas-themed 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 ...
In this album, Lee recorded the parts that Clooney sang in the movie. This was Crosby's third Decca LP album, recorded and released in 1954 and advertised as the soundtrack for White Christmas . For the 78rpm set, the three song medley "Blue Skies/I'd Rather See a Minstrel Show/Mandy" running to 3 minutes 53 seconds was a too long for a 10" 78 ...
The song’s titular film soon after became a hit as well, as White Christmas was the most successful movie in 1954.. This was the #1 box office hit of 1954, with rentals of $12 million, beating ...
White Christmas made a lot of money. White Christmas was the second-highest-grossing film of 1954, losing out only to The Caine Mutiny. Its haul at the box office? A whopping $12 million. 5. Fosse ...
The best-selling Christmas album of 1972 was The Jackson 5 Christmas Album, by The Jackson 5. [14] The best-selling Christmas album of 1973 was Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas, by Elvis Presley. The best-selling Christmas album of 1974 was The Waltons' Christmas Album, by Earl Hamner, Jr./The Holiday Singers. [15]
In 1953, Bing Crosby sang "White Christmas" in a film made in Paris as part of The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, a two-hour television special broadcast on NBC and CBS. [122] Andy Williams recorded the song for Columbia in 1963 on The Andy Williams Christmas Album, where it reached No. 1 on Billboard ' s weekly Christmas Singles chart. [123]
The success of the song "White Christmas" eventually led to another film based on the song, White Christmas (1954), which starred Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. It was an extremely loose remake of Holiday Inn, with a plot again involving an inn, but otherwise different from the earlier film. Fred Astaire was offered the ...