The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle November; Carlin gives a date of November 11, though November 5 has also been cited among online sources. "The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle" sold poorly when it was first released in 1973 but received acclaim from critics. "Rolling Stone" magazine's Ken Emerson said that its lengthy, vividly written songs make for a more challenging and romantic album than "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.", but still retain that album's ebullient music because of Springsteen and the E Street Band's masterful playing. In a less enthusiastic review for "Creem", Robert Christgau wrote that it does not cohere as
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