| I Wish You a Merry Christmas | ||||
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| Released | October 1962 | |||
| Recorded | October 5, 1962 | |||
| Studio | Radio Recorders, Hollywood | |||
| Genre | Vocal pop, Christmas | |||
| Length | 31:43 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| New Record Mirror |   [1] |
I Wish You a Merry Christmas is a long-playing vinyl album of Christmas themed songs recorded by Bing Crosby for his own company, Project Records, and issued by Warner Bros. (W-1484) in 1962.
The tracks were arranged by Bob Thompson, Peter Matz and Jack Halloran and each conducted the orchestra for their own arrangements. The musical accompaniment was recorded on 23 and 25 July 1962 and Crosby over-dubbed his vocals on October 5, 1962.[2]
The album was re-released by Capitol after Crosby's death in 1977 (on LP) and again in 1988 (on CD) as Bing Crosby's Christmas Classics, with a new cover and one track – "Pat-a-Pan/ While Shepherds Watched Their Sheep" – omitted. All the songs from the original album were included on a 1998 EMI CD called Winter Wonderland in the UK and on an updated 1999 Capitol CD of Bing Crosby's Christmas Classics in the US. In 2006, the album was re-released again under the Christmas Classics name, featuring the original cover art and all of the original tracks and several bonus ones, including Crosby and David Bowie's famous duet of "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy."[3]
- ^ Watson, Jimmy (2 November 1963). "Bing Crosby: I Wish You A Merry Christmas" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 138. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ Reynolds, Fred. The Crosby Collection 1926-1977. Part Five: 1961-1977: John Joyce. pp. 35–40.
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