St. Valentine's Day (album)

St. Valentine’s Day
Compilation album by Bing Crosby
Released

Original 78 album: 1948

10” LP DL 5039: 1949
Recorded 1941 - 1945
Genre Popular
Label Decca Records
Bing Crosby chronology
Bing Crosby – The Emperor Waltz
(1948)		 St. Valentine’s Day
(1948)		 Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters
(1948)

St. Valentine’s Day is a Decca Records compilation album of recordings by Bing Crosby.

Background

Bing Crosby had enjoyed unprecedented success during the 1940s, with his output including six No. 1 hits in 1944 alone. His films, such as Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's, were huge successes as were the Road films he made with Bob Hope. On radio, his Kraft Music Hall and Philco Radio Time shows were very popular. Decca Records exploited this by issuing a number of 78rpm album sets, some featuring freshly recorded material and others using Crosby's back catalogue. Ten of these sets were released in 1946, nine in 1947 and nine more in 1948. Most of these 78rpm albums were reissued as 10" vinyl LP's in subsequent years.

St. Valentine’s Day includes two of Crosby’s No. 1 hits from 1944 – “I'll Be Seeing You” and “I Love You" – two other chart entries (“You and I” and “Miss You”) plus re-recordings of the singer's first ever recordings for Decca in 1934 “I Love You Truly” and “Just A-Wearyin’ for You".

Reception

The album reached No. 8 in the Billboard list of best-selling popular albums in February 1949. [1]

Track listing

These songs were featured on a four 10” 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-621.[2]
Disc 1: (23971)

  1. "I Love You Truly, recorded April 18, 1945 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[3]
  2. “Just A-Wearyin’ for You", recorded April 18, 1945 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[3]

Disc 2: (23482)

  1. "The Sweetest Story Ever Told", (R. M. Stults) recorded December 4, 1945 with Ethel Smith and The Song Spinners.[3]
  2. "Mighty Lak' a Rose”, recorded December 4, 1945 with Ethel Smith and the Song Spinners.[3]

Disc 3: (24255)

  1. "You and I”, (Meredith Willson) recorded May 23, 1941 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[3]
  2. "Miss You”, recorded January 24, 1942, with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[3]

Disc 4: (24256)

  1. "I'll Be Seeing You, recorded February 17, 1944 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[3]
  2. “I Love You”, recorded February 11, 1944 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.[3]

LP release

The album was also issued as a 10” vinyl LP in 1949 with the catalogue number DL 5039.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn's Top LP's, 1945 - 1972. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 39.
  2. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "A Bing Crosby Discography". A Bing Crosby Discography. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ "DISCOGS". discogs.com. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
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