Tom Sawyer (album)

Tom Sawyer
Studio album by
Released1976
RecordedSeptember 3, 5, 1975
GenreReading
LabelArgo Records (UK) (ZSW 561-3)
ProducerKevin Daly
Bing Crosby chronology
A Couple of Song and Dance Men
(w/ Fred Astaire)

(1975)
Tom Sawyer
(1976)
At My Time of Life
(1976)

Tom Sawyer is a 3-LP box set containing a reading by Bing Crosby of an abridged version of Mark Twain’s classic story The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It was recorded for Argo Records (UK) on September 3 and 5, 1975[1] at Argo Studios, 115 Fulham Road, London.

Background music in the natural breaks in the story was composed by David T. Reilly and played by his father Tommy Reilly on the harmonica.[2]

The album has never been issued on CD.

  1. ^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  2. ^ Bishop, Bert (June 1976). "BING magazine". BING Magazine. #42: 7.