Selections from Going My Way

1945 studio album by Bing Crosby

Selections from Going My Way (Academy Award Picture)

Studio album by

Bing Crosby

Released| Original 78 album: 1945
Original LP album: 1949
Recorded| 1944, 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.

## Chart performance

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

## Track listing

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

Side / Title | Writers | Recording date | Performed with | Time

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Disc 1 (18597):
A. "Going My Way" | Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen | February 7, 1944 | John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra | 2:50
B. "Swinging on a Star" * | Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen | February 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, 1945 | John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra | 3:17
B. "The Day After Forever" | Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen | February 7, 1944 | John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra | 3:00
Disc 3 (18705):
A. "Ave Maria" | Franz Schubert | July 30, 1945 | Victor Young and His Orchestra | 3:16
B. "Home Sweet Home" | Henry Rowley Bishop, John Howard Payne | July 30, 1945 | Victor Young and His Orchestra | 2:55

*featuring a young Andy Williams

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## Other releases

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

## References

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1. ^ "Going My Way - Bing Crosby - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". 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.

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Albums|

* Music of Hawaii (1939)
* Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. One (1939)
* Patriotic Songs for Children (1939)
* Cowboy Songs (Bing Crosby's first solo album) (1939)
* Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. Two (1939)
* George Gershwin Songs, Vol. One (1939)
* Ballad for Americans (Bing Crosby's first solo studio album) (1940)
* Favorite Hawaiian Songs (1940)
* Christmas Music (1940)
* Star Dust (1940)
* Hawaii Calls (1941)
* Small Fry (1941)
* Crosbyana (1941)
* Under Western Skies (1941)
* Song Hits from Holiday Inn (w/ Fred Astaire) (1942)
* Merry Christmas (1945)
* Selections from Going My Way (1945)
* Selections from The Bells of St. Mary's (1946)
* Don't Fence Me In (w/ The Andrews Sisters) (1946)
* The Happy Prince (1946)
* Selections from Road to Utopia (1946)
* Bing Crosby – Stephen Foster (1946)
* What We So Proudly Hail (1946)
* Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. One (1946)
* Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. Two (1946)
* Blue Skies (w/ Fred Astaire and Irving Berlin) (1946)
* Bing Crosby – Jerome Kern (1946)
* St. Patrick's Day (1947)
* Bing Crosby – Victor Herbert (1947)
* Cowboy Songs, Vol. One (1947)
* Selections from Welcome Stranger (1947)
* Our Common Heritage (1947)
* El Bingo (1947)
* The Small One (1947)
* The Man Without a Country (1947)
* Drifting and Dreaming (1947)
* Blue of the Night (1948)
* Selections from Showboat (1948)
* The Emperor Waltz (1948)
* St. Valentine's Day (1948)
* Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters (1948)
* Selections from Road to Rio (1948)
* Bing Crosby Sings with Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Johnny Mercer (1948)
* Bing Crosby Sings with Lionel Hampton, Eddie Heywood, Louis Jordan (1948)
* Bing Crosby Sings the Song Hits from Broadway Shows (1948)
* Cowboy Songs, Vol. Two (1948)
* Auld Lang Syne (1948)
* Bing Crosby Sings Cole Porter Songs (1949)
* A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
* Bing Crosby Sings Songs by George Gershwin (1949)
* South Pacific (1949)
* Christmas Greetings (1949)
* Ichabod – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
* Top o' the Morning / Emperor Waltz (1950)
* Songs from Mr. Music (w/ Dorothy Kirsten and The Andrews Sisters) (1950)
* Go West Young Man (w/ The Andrews Sisters) (1950)
* Collectors' Classics, Vols. 1–8 (1951)
* Way Back Home (1951)
* Bing Crosby Sings the Song Hits from... (1951)
* Bing and the Dixieland Bands (1951)
* Yours Is My Heart Alone (1951)
* Country Style (1951)
* Beloved Hymns (1951)
* Bing and Connee (w/ Connee Boswell) (1952)
* When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1952)
* Themes and Songs from The Quiet Man (w/ Victor Young) (1952)
* Selections from the Paramount Picture "Just for You" (w/ Jane Wyman and The Andrews Sisters) (1952)
* Road to Bali (w/ Bob Hope and Peggy Lee) (1952)
* Le Bing: Song Hits of Paris (1953)
* Some Fine Old Chestnuts (1954)
* Bing Sings the Hits (1954)
* Selections from White Christmas (w/ Peggy Lee and Danny Kaye) (1954)
* Bing: A Musical Autobiography (1954)
* The Country Girl / Little Boy Lost (1955)
* Merry Christmas (later version of 1945 78rpm album) (1955)
* Shillelaghs and Shamrocks (1956)
* Home on the Range (1956)
* Blue Hawaii (1956)
* High Tor (w/ Julie Andrews and Everett Sloane) (1956)
* A Christmas Sing with Bing Around the World (1956)
* Anything Goes (w/ Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor and Zizi Jeanmaire) (1956)
* High Society (w/ Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, and Louis Armstrong) (1956)
* Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around (1956)
* Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956)
* Bing with a Beat (1957)
* A Christmas Story (1957)
* Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1957)
* New Tricks (1957)
* The Bible Story of Christmas (1957)
* Never Be Afraid (1958)
* Jack B. Nimble – A Mother Goose Fantasy (1958)
* Fancy Meeting You Here ( w/ Rosemary Clooney) (1958)
* Around the World with Bing! (1958)
* Bing in Paris (1958)
* That Christmas Feeling (1958)
* In a Little Spanish Town (1958)
* Bing’s Buddies and Beaus (1959)
* Say One for Me (w/ Debbie Reynolds and Robert Wagner) (1959)
* How the West Was Won (w/ Rosemary Clooney) (1960)
* Join Bing and Sing Along (1960)
* Bing & Satchmo (w/ Louis Armstrong) (1960)
* Songs of Christmas (1960)
* 101 Gang Songs (1961)
* El Señor Bing (1961)
* My Golden Favorites (1961)
* The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
* Bing's Hollywood (set of 15 albums) (1962)
* On the Happy Side (1962)
* I Wish You a Merry Christmas (1962)
* Holiday in Europe (1962)
* Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (1963)
* Return to Paradise Islands (1964)
* America, I Hear You Singing (w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring) (1964)
* Robin and the 7 Hoods (w/ Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.) (1964)
* 12 Songs of Christmas (w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring) (1964)
* Bing Crosby Sings the Great Country Hits (1965)
* That Travelin' Two-Beat (w/ Rosemary Clooney) (1965)
* The Summit (w/ Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.) (1966)
* Bing Crosby's Treasury – The Songs I Love (1966)
* Bing Crosby and The Columbus Boychoir Sing Family Christmas Favorites (w/ The Columbus Boychoir) (1967)
* Thoroughly Modern Bing (1968)
* Bing Crosby's Treasury – The Songs I Love (1968 version) (1968)
* Hey Jude/Hey Bing! (1969)
* Goldilocks (1970)
* A Time to Be Jolly (1971)
* Bing 'n' Basie (w/ Count Basie) (1972)
* Rhythm on the Range (1972)
* I’ll Sing You a Song of the Islands (1972)
* A Southern Memoir (1975)
* That's What Life Is All About (1975)
* A Couple of Song and Dance Men (w/ Fred Astaire) (1975)
* Tom Sawyer (1976)
* At My Time of Life (1976)
* Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium (1976)
* Feels Good, Feels Right (1976)
* Beautiful Memories (1977)
* Bingo Viejo (1977)
* Seasons (Bing Crosby's last studio album released during his lifetime) (1977)
* A Little Bit of Irish (posthumous edition, recorded in 1966) (1993)
* Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas (1998)
* On the Sentimental Side (posthumous edition, recorded in 1962; Bing Crosby's latest studio album) (2010)

Family|

* Dixie Lee (first wife)
* Gary Crosby (son)
* Dennis Crosby (son)
* Phillip Crosby (son)
* Lindsay Crosby (son)
* Kathryn Crosby (second wife)
* Harry Crosby (son)
* Mary Crosby (daughter)
* Nathaniel Crosby (son)
* Denise Crosby (granddaughter)
* Larry Crosby (brother)
* Bob Crosby (brother)

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