Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around was Bing Crosby's fourth album for Decca and his fifth LP, recorded and originally released in 1956 on vinyl as Decca DL 8352. This was a concept album of sorts, as Bing covered some of his musical rivals' big hits, such as Al Jolson's "April Showers" and Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa". The jazz historian Will Friedwald wrote that the album "was essentially Crosby's way of acknowledging that he wasn't the only male singer to create hits and standards". Crosby
Harry Clifton (singer) Harry Clifton (singer) Harry Clifton (born Henry Robert Clifton, 1832 – 15 July 1872) was a British music hall singer, songwriter and entertainer. A prolific songwriter, his most successful song was "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green". Clifton was born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the son of a carpenter, and was baptised on 20 May 1832. He was orphaned as a child, and little is known of his early adulthood, but by the early 1860s he had become well known as a singer and songwriter in the song and supper rooms and early music halls of London. Nicknamed "Handsome Harry Clifton"