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6/22/1960- Bing recorded this track for his studio album El Señor Bing. 1965- Crosby recorded this song for the 1966 album Bing Crosby's Treasury – The Songs I Love. March 1968- re-recording song for the 1968 album Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love. 1975- Bing re-recorded this song and included it on his 1977 album Bingo Viejo.
Going My Way is a 1944 American musical comedy drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.Written by Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, based on a story by McCarey, the film is about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran.
The Aviator (2004) – Bing Crosby is heard twice on the film's soundtrack during the drama's first half. "Thanks" is played shortly after the sequence depicting the premiere of the film " Wings " and " Some of These Days " is featured when Howard Hughes , played by Leonardo DiCaprio , visits the home of Katharine Hepburn ( Cate Blanchett ).
American singer Bing Crosby has released 71 studio albums, 83 compilation albums and 409 singles over the course of his career. Crosby is one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold more than 200 million records as of 1960 [1] according to different sources his sales could be 300 million, [2] 500 million records, tapes, compact discs and digital downloads globally. [3]
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.
The 1935 version of "Silent Night" was not released due to Crosby's feelings that a popular entertainer should not profit on such a religion-based song; [2] however, once the proceeds were arranged to be donated to charity, a second recording of the song was released as a single in 1935 and was later packaged as part of a 1940 album.
1945 V-Disc release by the U.S. Army of "White Christmas" and "I'll Be Home for Christmas" by Bing Crosby as No. 441B Despite the song's popularity with Americans at the front and at home, in the UK, the BBC banned the song from broadcast , as the Corporation's management felt the lyrics might lower morale among British troops.
In the three years eight months of the war, Crosby made eight full-length films, twelve short films (including guest appearances), appeared in at least 190 other radio programs, recorded 160 songs for commercial release and out of these an incredible 54 were top thirty hits including nine which reached No. 1.