| Decca Presents: Song Hits from the Paramount Picture Holiday Inn | ||||
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| Released | 1942 (original 78rpm album) 1946 (re-release 78rpm album) 1949 (original LP album) | |||
| Recorded | 1942 | |||
| Genre | Yearly holidays | |||
| Length | 32:08 (original 78rpm album) 21:02 (re-release 78rpm album) | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
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Song Hits from Holiday Inn is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire released in July[1] 1942 featuring songs presented in the American musical film Holiday Inn. These are the longer studio recorded versions of the songs presented in the film. For the songs that were actually in the film, see Holiday Inn (soundtrack). This album is not only notable because it is one of the greatest works of the highly regarded songwriter Irving Berlin,[2] but it is only Crosby's third studio album. This was also the first release of Crosby's signature song "White Christmas" on shellac disc record. The 1942 version would be released only one more time, in 1945's compilation album, Merry Christmas, before the song was re-recorded in 1947 (because the original master recording wore out). The later version became the standard.
- ^ "Best selling single". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
- ^ Lobosco, David (21 October 2014). "THE BING CROSBY NEWS ARCHIVE: REINVENTING HOLIDAY INN". Bingfan03.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2016-06-14.