St. Patrick's Day (album) St. Patrick's Day (album) St. Patrick's Day is a compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1947 featuring songs with an Irish theme. This includes one of Crosby's most-beloved songs, "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" which was number four on "Billboard" for 12 weeks, and topped the Australian charts for an entire month, on shellac disc record. This version, the 1945 re-recording, was released earlier in another Crosby album, "Selections from Going My Way". Billboard liked it: Down Beat was not impressed however saying: The album quickly reached No. 3 in Billboard's best-selling popular record albums chart in March 1947 and
St. Knut's Day St. Knut's Day Tjugondag jul ("Twentieth Day Yule"), or Tjugondag Knut ("Twentieth Day Knut"), or Knutomasso, or Nuutinpäivä ("Knut's Day"), in English Saint Knut's Day, is a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden and Finland on 13January. It is not celebrated on this date in Denmark (the Knut day was moved in Sweden, not in Denmark) despite being named for the Danish prince Canute Lavard, and later also associated with his uncle, Canute the Saint, the patron saint of Denmark. Christmas trees are taken down on "Tjugondag jul", and the candies and cookies that decorated the tree are eaten. In Sweden,