12 Songs of Christmas (Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Fred Waring album)

May 2025 12 Songs of Christmas studio Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Fred Waring 12SongsofChristmas.jpg August 1964 June 16–19, 1964, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California Traditional pop, Christmas 38:18 RepriseFS 2022 Sonny Burke Frank Sinatra It Might as Well Be Swing 1964 Softly, as I Leave You 1964 Bing Crosby studio Robin and the 7 Hoods 1964 12 Songs of Christmas 1964 Bing Crosby Sings the Great Country Hits 1965 12 Songs of Christmas is a 1964 album of Christmas music by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians.12 Songs of Christmas Frank Sinatra Bing Crosby and Fred Waring album http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/12-Songs-of-Christmas-(Frank-Sinatra,-Bing-Crosby-and-Fred-Waring-album) The Times of India 5 September 201312 Songs Of Christmas Frank Sinatra Bing Crosby And Fred Waring Album http://www.themarsvolta.com/node/87886/ The Marsvolta.Com 5 September 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20181104010205/http://www.themarsvolta.com/node/87886/ 2018-11-04 usurped The singers previously collaborated on the album America, I Hear You Singing, which was released earlier the same year. The album was reissued as White Christmas on by WEA budget label Midi in 1973. While the album has never been reissued on a standalone CD, Reprise Records included it in a special 2-CD "Christmas edition" of their Frank Sinatra compilation Nothing but the Best in 2008. Reception Record Mirror 4 57 November 1964 Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Fred Waring: Twelve Songs of Christmas https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/64/Record-Mirror-1964-11-07-I.pdf Record Mirror 191 12 https://web.archive.org/web/20220401225259/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/64/Record-Mirror-1964-11-07-I.pdf 1 April 2022 16 August 2022 In the US, Variety received the album favorably. "This is an attractive compilation of seasonal standards delivered in standout style by Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, singly and in tandem, with the polished support of Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. Among the top sides in this set are "Go Tell It on the Mountain," "The Little Drummer Boy," "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" and "The 12 Days of Christmas."Variety Variety October 7, 1964 Gramophone in the UK was not so keen, commenting: "'12 Songs of Christmas,' with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians (Reprise FS 2022). Plenty of expensive talent crammed uncomfortably into a small, well-worn stocking. Obvious, pallid stuff, with the two head groaners actually together on only two tracks, and neither of them anywhere in particularly good voice. Collectors of sheer corn may take a perverse delight in an item called 'We Wish You the Merriest.'"The Gramophone December 1965 Track listing Side one White Christmas Irving Berlin 3:46 It's Christmas Time Again Sonny Burke, John Elliot, James K. Harwood 2:50 Go Tell It on the Mountain Traditional, John Wesley Work III 3:25 An Old-Fashioned Christmas Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen 3:46 Where Angels Sang of Peace Traditional 2:59 The Little Drummer Boy Katherine K. Davis 3:05 Side two I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johnny Marks 2:38 Do You Hear What I Hear? Noël Regney, Gloria Shayne Baker 3:11 The Secret of Christmas Cahn, Van Heusen 3:48 The Twelve Days of Christmas Traditional 3:51 Christmas Candles Dean Kay, Vincent O'Dea, Jay Clinton 2:40 We Wish You the Merriest Les Brown 2:19 Personnel Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians (Tracks 1, 5, 8, 10) Bing Crosby and Fred Waring (Tracks 2, 9, 11) Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring (Track 3, 12) Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring (Track 4, 6, 7) References Category:Pop Christmas albums Category:1964 Christmas albums Category:Albums produced by Sonny Burke Category:Bing Crosby albums Category:Christmas albums by American artists Category:Frank Sinatra albums Category:Fred Waring albums Category:Reprise Records albums Category:Split albums