[78-L] Danny Boy - a Christmas tune? Really?

[David Lennick]

Sorry..I've amended this so many times I've lost a key point, namely the one 
about the album containing Danny Boy. A403 was a 5-disc album of Christmas 
songs by Bing and the Andrews Sisters, issued in 1945. If you look through 
Bing's discography and count the number of Christmas titles he recorded before 
1942, you'll come up with .. 3. Adeste Fidelis and Silent Night twice in 1935 
(special issue and regular issue), Jingle Bells on a special recording for 
Decca executives in 1940, then NUTTIN' till the Holiday Inn album and 
rerecordings of Adeste Fidelis and Silent Night, plus Faith of our Fathers and 
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentilemen. By 1945 they probably still didn't have ten 
songs, so Danny Boy stayed coupled with I'll Be Home for Christmas until the 
album itself was replaced a couple of years later with A550. Ave Maria could 
have been included but it was already going into A405, Going My Way.

That's all, I hope!

dl

On 12/22/2012 10:56 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Slight amendment (and insertion of a missing word)..18573 charted on December
> 4, 1943, so Decca probably brought it out with whatever was available for a
> filler since they weren't going to get another Christmas ditty out of Bing that
> year and White Christmas was doing just fine. Interestingly enough, Jingle
> Bells/Santa Claus is Comin' to Town did NOTHING in 1943. Now you hear it
> everywhere.
>
> Speaking of inappropriate seasonal tunes, somebody is programming blindly..I
> heard "I've Plenty To Be Thankful For" on a store system the other day. Right
> movie, wrong season. I'm also hearing Chanukah songs, which is really weird in
> a sh*tkicker town like Oshawa.
>
> On 12/22/2012 10:40 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>>
>> 18570 was a single, not added to an album till 1945. "Danny Boy" was in the can
>> from 1941. "I'll be Home for Christmas" was recorded in October 1943, very soon
>> after the end of the ban (for Decca), along with Jingle Bells and Santa Claus
>> is Comin' to Town. They did indeed need a filler, so Danny Boy was it. How it
>> got into the Christmas album is anybody's guess, but it wasn't even listed
>> in the 1948 Decca catalog and didn't resurface till it was reissued in 25415,
>> backed with Dear Little Boy of Mine.
>>
>> dl
>>
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