Christmas Music (Decca album)

Decca Presents
An Album of Christmas Music

Compilation album by Bing Crosby, Kenny Baker, Men About Town, Eddie Dunstedter

Released

Original 78 album: 1940

Recorded

1934, 1935, 1938

Bing Crosby chronology

Favorite Hawaiian Songs
(1940)

Christmas Music
(1940)

Star Dust
(1940)

Christmas Music is an compilation album of phonograph records put together for the Christmas season by Decca Records in late 1940. The album features the most popular artists recording for Decca such as: Bing Crosby, Kenny Baker, Men About Town and Eddie Dunstedter. It features Bing Crosby's first commercial release of "Silent Night", the 1942 version of which went on to sell 30 million copies.

Track listing

The 1940 album issue Decca Album No. 159 consisted of these previously issued 78 rpm records:^[1]^[2]

Disc 1: (304)^[3]

"Christmas Day (Part One)", recorded in November 1934 by Men About Town
"Christmas Day (Part Two)", recorded in November 1934 by Men About Town

Disc 2: (621)^[4]

"Silent Night", recorded November 13, 1935 by Bing Crosby with Victor Young and His Orchestra
"Adeste Fideles”, recorded November 12, 1935 by Bing Crosby with Victor Young and His Orchestra

Disc 3: (2189)^[5]

"O Little Town of Bethlehem", recorded November 18, 1938 by Kenny Baker and Eddie Dunstedter
"O Holy Night", recorded November 18, 1938 by Kenny Baker and Eddie Dunstedter

Disc 4: (2190)^[6]

"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear", recorded November 18, 1938 by Kenny Baker and Eddie Dunstedter
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", recorded November 18, 1938 by Kenny Baker and Eddie Dunstedter

References

Bing Crosby

Discography Filmography

Albums	Music of Hawaii (1939) Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. One (1939) Patriotic Songs for Children (1939) Cowboy Songs (1939) Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. Two (1939) George Gershwin Songs, Vol. One (1939) Ballad for Americans (1940) Favorite Hawaiian Songs (1940) Christmas Music (1940) Star Dust (1940) Hawaii Calls (1941) Small Fry (1941) Crosbyana (1941) Under Western Skies (1941) Song Hits from Holiday Inn (w/ Fred Astaire) (1942) Merry Christmas (1945) Selections from Going My Way (1945) Selections from The Bells of St. Mary's (1946) Don't Fence Me In (1946) The Happy Prince (1946) Selections from Road to Utopia (1946) Stephen Foster Songs (1946) What We So Proudly Hail (1946) Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. One (1946) Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. Two (1946) Blue Skies (w/ Fred Astaire) (1946) Jerome Kern Songs (1946) St. Patrick's Day (1947) Victor Herbert Songs (1947) Cowboy Songs, Vol. One (1947) Selections from Welcome Stranger (1947) Our Common Heritage (1947) El Bingo (1947) The Small One (1947) The Man Without a Country (1947) Drifting and Dreaming (1947) Blue of the Night (1948) Selections from Showboat (1948) The Emperor Waltz (1948) St. Valentine's Day (1948) Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters (1948) Selections from Road to Rio (1948) Bing Crosby Sings with Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Johnny Mercer (1948) Bing Crosby Sings with Lionel Hampton, Eddie Heywood, Louis Jordan (1948) Cowboy Songs, Vol. Two (1948) Auld Lang Syne (1948) A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (1949) Bing Crosby Sings Songs By George Gershwin (1949) South Pacific (1949) Christmas Greetings (1949) Ichabod - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949) Top o' the Morning / Emperor Waltz (1949) Songs from Mr. Music (1950) Go West Young Man (1950) Le Bing: Song Hits of Paris (1953) Some Fine Old Chestnuts (1954) Selections from White Christmas (1954) Bing: A Musical Autobiography (1954) High Tor (1956) A Christmas Sing with Bing around the World (1956) High Society (w/ Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, and Louis Armstrong) (1956) Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around (1956) Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956) Bing with a Beat (1957) A Christmas Story (1957) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1957) Never Be Afraid (1957) Jack B. Nimble – A Mother Goose Fantasy (1957) New Tricks (1957) Fancy Meeting You Here ( w/ Rosemary Clooney) (1958) How the West Was Won (1959) Bing & Satchmo (w/ Louis Armstrong) (1960) 101 Gang Songs (1960) Holiday in Europe (1960) The Road to Hong Kong (1962) On the Happy Side (1962) On the Sentimental Side (1962) I Wish You a Merry Christmas (1962) Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (1963) Return to Paradise Islands (1963) Bing Crosby Sings the Great Country Hits (1963) America, I Hear You Singing (w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring) (1964) 12 Songs of Christmas (w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring) (1964) That Travelin' Two-Beat (w/ Rosemary Clooney) (1965) Bing 'n' Basie (w/ Count Basie) (1972) A Couple of Song and Dance Men (w/ Fred Astaire) (1975) Seasons (1977) Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas (1998)

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