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 Crosby Boys The Crosby Boys The Crosby Boys were an American harmony singing group who were popular in nightclubs and on television during the 1950s and 1960s. They were the four sons of the popular singer Bing Crosby from his first marriage to the singer Dixie Lee. The boys had all sung on their father's radio shows and they made a record with Bing on September 5, 1950 called "A Crosby Christmas" which charted at number 22 in the "Billboard" lists in December, 1950. In 1958, the four brothers decided to form a vocal group called The Crosby Brothers. They were featured