The Small One (Bing Crosby album)
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| Studio album by Bing Crosby | ||||
| Released | Original 78 album: 1947 Original LP album: 1949 |
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| Recorded | 1947 | |||
| Genre | Short story | |||
| Length | 12:44 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
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The Small One is a studio album of Deccalite phonograph records by Bing Crosby of a Charles Tazewell story. It was produced and directed by Paramount Pictures producer Robert Welch with musical accompaniment from Victor Young and His Orchestra.
"The Small One," one of the most touching of all Christmas stories, was first produced in 1939 on the Kate Smith radio show by Robert Welch, who later became a Paramount producer. It was featured in Bing Crosby’s Philco Radio Time broadcast of December 25, 1946 and Decca Records soon arranged to make a new recording of it. This took place on March 20, 1947. The album was released on September 2, 1947 and in due course it was ordered by more than 1,500 private schools in the USA.
Crosby researcher Fred Reynolds outlined the story:
Crosby repeated The Small One on his Philco shows of December 24, 1947 and December 22, 1948.
These songs were featured on a 2-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-553. which was auto-coupled for ease of playing with a record changer.
Disc 1: (40040)
Disc 2: (40041)
Decca released a dual 10” LP of The Happy Prince and The Small One on Decca DL 6000 in 1949.
"The Small One" first appeared on CD on Jonzo's The Chronological Bing Crosby Vol. 44 (JZCD-44).
In 1978, Walt Disney Productions produced an animated Christmas short film version called The Small One.
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