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As he felt inadequate to the task, he asked local fiddler Dan Kelley to help him set the poem to music. His neighbors took a liking to the song, and soon its fame spread. As people passed through, the song traveled with them, and by the turn of the century, it was variously known as Home On The Range, My Colorado Home, and My Arizona Home..
On October 4, 1943, Crosby recorded the song under the title I'll Be Home For Christmas (If Only In My Dreams), with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra for Decca Records; it was released as a 78 rpm single, Decca 18570A, Matrix #L3203, and reissued in 1946 as Decca 23779.