Christmas Greetings (album) Christmas Greetings (album) Christmas Greetings is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1949 featuring popular Christmas songs. Crosby had recorded Christmas songs for the first time in 1935 and he had a huge hit with "Silent Night" that year. In 1942, he recorded "White Christmas" with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers for Decca Records in just 18 minutes on May 29, 1942, and it was released on July 30 as part of an album of six 78-rpm discs from the film "Holiday Inn". In 1943, he recorded three more songs
The Secret of Christmas The Secret of Christmas "The Secret of Christmas" is a popular Christmas song, written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen for Bing Crosby, and first performed by Crosby in the 1959 film "Say One for Me". He recorded the song with an arrangement by Frank DeVol for a single that year released by Columbia Records. Crosby recorded the song again in 1964, together with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, for the Reprise Records album "12 Songs of Christmas". The song has also been covered by numerous artists, including Ella Fitzgerald in 1959, Johnny Mathis (for his album "Sounds of