Selections from Going My Way

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Selections from Going My Way (Academy Award Picture)
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ReleasedOriginal 78 album: 1945
Original LP album: 1949
Recorded1944, 1945
Genre Popular
Label Decca
Bing Crosby chronology
Merry Christmas
(1945)
Selections from Going My Way (Academy Award Picture)
(1945)
Selections from The Bells of St. Mary's
(1946)
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Selections from Going My Way is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in late 1945 featuring songs that were presented in the American musical comedy-drama film Going My Way . This was the first release of one of Crosby's best songs throughout his career, "Swinging on a Star", on shellac disc record.

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Chart performance

The album reached the top of the Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart in October 1945. [2]

Track listing

These newly issued songs were featured on a 3-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-405. [3]

Side / TitleWritersRecording datePerformed withTime
Disc 1 (18597):
A. "Going My Way" Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen February 7, 1944 John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra2:50
B. "Swinging on a Star"Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van HeusenFebruary 7, 1944 the Williams Brothers Quartet* and
John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
2:28
Disc 2 (18704):
A. "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" James Royce Shannon July 17, 1945John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra3:17
B. "The Day After Forever"Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van HeusenFebruary 7, 1944John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra3:00
Disc 3 (18705):
A. "Ave Maria" Franz Schubert July 30, 1945 Victor Young and His Orchestra3:16
B. "Home Sweet Home" Henry Rowley Bishop, John Howard Payne July 30, 1945Victor Young and His Orchestra2:55

*featuring a young Andy Williams

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Other releases

Decca released a dual 10” LP of Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's on Decca DL 5052 in 1949. [5]

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References

  1. "Going My Way - Bing Crosby - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic".
  2. "Billboard". Billboard. October 13, 1945.
  3. "DECCA (USA) 78rpm numerical listing discography: 18500 - 19000".
  4. "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved August 6, 2017.
  5. "DISCOGS.COM". discogs.com. Retrieved September 4, 2015.