12 Songs of Christmas (Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Fred Waring album) particularly good voice. Collectors of sheer corn may take a perverse delight in an item called 'We Wish You the Merriest.'" 12 Songs of Christmas (Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Fred Waring album) 12 Songs of Christmas is a 1964 album of Christmas music by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. The artists had previously collaborated for the album "America, I Hear You Singing", released earlier the same year. All of the songs were included on CD as part of the 2-CD set "Nothing but the Best (Limited Christmas Edition)" issued in 2009. In the USA, "Variety" received
Bing Crosby Irish-American. His father was of English descent; an ancestor, Simon Crosby, emigrated to America in the 17th century. The first Crosby in America was the English immigrant Simon Crosby, who was a Puritan from Cambridgeshire, England. Through an entirely paternal line Bing Crosby is descended from Simon Crosby, who emigrated from England to New England in the 1630s during the Puritan migration to New England. Through another line, also on his father's side, Crosby is descended from "Mayflower" passenger William Brewster (c. 1567 – April 10, 1644). On November 8, 1937, after Lux Radio Theatre's adaptation of "She Loves Me