The Happy Prince (album)

The Happy Prince

Studio album by Bing Crosby, Orson Welles, Lureen Tuttle

Released

1946: (original 78rpm album)
1949 (original LP album)

Recorded

August 21, 1945

Genre

Short story

Length

12:17

Label

Decca

Bing Crosby chronology

Don't Fence Me In
(1946)

The Happy Prince
(1946)

Selections from Road to Utopia
(1946)

The Happy Prince is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby and Orson Welles of the Oscar Wilde short story The Happy Prince.

The story had been adapted for radio by Orson Welles in 1944, featuring a musical score by Bernard Herrmann. It was aired on the Philco Radio Hall of Fame broadcast on December 24, 1944^[1] featuring Bing Crosby alongside Orson Welles, with Herrmann's music conducted by Victor Young. Lureen Tuttle played The Swallow.

Decca Records soon signed up the participants to make a commercial recording.

Reception

Down Beat magazine liked the album saying: "If you’ve been getting smothered lately in record stores with scads of children’s’ albums by everybody from Artie Shaw through Ronald Colman by way of Gene Kelly, try this one on your small son. It’s the Oscar Wilde fairy tale with a Bernard Herrmann score, and in very much better taste than anything else being turned out for the Christmas rush."^[2]

Track listing

These newly issued songs were featured on a 2-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-420.^[3] Words by Oscar Wilde, music by Bernard Herrmann. Recorded August 21, 1945 with Victor Young and His Orchestra.^[4]

Disc 1 (40007): Part 1 (3:08) / Part 2 (3:02)
Disc 2 (40008): Part 3 (2:54) / Part 4 (3:09)

Other releases

Decca released a dual 10” LP of The Happy Prince and The Small One on Decca DL6000 in 1949.^[5]

References

↑ Pairpoint, Lionel. "And Here's Bing". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
↑ "Down Beat". November 4, 1946.
↑ "DECCA (USA) 78rpm numerical listing discography - 40000 series".
↑ "A Bing Crosby Discography". A Bing Crosby Discography. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
↑ "DISCOGS.COM". discogs.com. Retrieved September 4, 2015.

Bing Crosby
Discography Filmography
Albums	Music of Hawaii (1939) Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. One (1939) Patriotic Songs for Children (1939) Cowboy Songs (1939) Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. Two (1939) George Gershwin Songs, Vol. One (1939) Ballad for Americans (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 (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) (1946) Bing Crosby – Jerome Kern (1946) St. Patrick's Day (1947) Bing Crosby – Victor Herbert (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) Auld Lang Syne (1948) 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 (1949) Songs from Mr. Music (1950) Go West Young Man (1950) Le Bing: Song Hits of Paris (1953) Some Fine Old Chestnuts (1954) Selections from White Christmas (1954) Bing: A Musical Autobiography (1954) High Tor (1956) A Christmas Sing with Bing Around the World (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) Never Be Afraid (1957) Jack B. Nimble – A Mother Goose Fantasy (1957) New Tricks (1957) Fancy Meeting You Here ( w/ Rosemary Clooney) (1958) How the West Was Won (1959) Bing & Satchmo (w/ Louis Armstrong) (1960) 101 Gang Songs (1960) Holiday in Europe (1960) The Road to Hong Kong (1962) On the Happy Side (1962) On the Sentimental Side (1962) I Wish You a Merry Christmas (1962) Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (1963) Return to Paradise Islands (1963) Bing Crosby Sings the Great Country Hits (1963) America, I Hear You Singing (w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring) (1964) 12 Songs of Christmas (w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring) (1964) That Travelin' Two-Beat (w/ Rosemary Clooney) (1965) Bing 'n' Basie (w/ Count Basie) (1972) A Couple of Song and Dance Men (w/ Fred Astaire) (1975) Seasons (1977) Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas (1998)
Family	Dixie Lee (first wife) Gary Crosby (son) Dennis Crosby (son) Phillip Crosby (son) Lindsay Crosby (daughter) Kathryn Crosby (second wife) Harry Crosby (son) Mary Crosby (daughter) Nathaniel Crosby (son) Denise Crosby (granddaughter) Larry Crosby (brother) Bob Crosby (brother)
Related	Songs Bing Crosby recorded multiple times A Tribute to Bing Crosby

Orson Welles
Filmography Radio credits Theatre credits Discography Bibliography Awards and nominations
Feature films	Citizen Kane (1941) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) The Stranger (1946) The Lady from Shanghai (1947) Macbeth (1948) Othello (1951) Mr. Arkadin (1955) Touch of Evil (1958) The Trial (1962) Chimes at Midnight (1965) The Immortal Story (1968) F for Fake (1974) Filming Othello (1979)
Shorts	Twelfth Night (1933) The Hearts of Age (1934) The Green Goddess (lost film) (1939) Citizen Kane trailer (1940) Around the World (lost film) (1946) The Miracle of St. Anne (lost film) (1950) Magic Trick (1953) The Dominici Affair (1955) Portrait of Gina (1958) An Evening with Orson Welles (1970) Orson's Bag (1968–69) incorporating Vienna (1968) The Merchant of Venice (1969) One Man Band, aka London (1968–71) Moby Dick (1971) Orson Welles' Magic Show (1976–85) The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (1984)
Unfinished films	Too Much Johnson (1938) It's All True (1942) Don Quixote (1957–69) The Heroine (lost film) (1967) The Deep (1967–70) The Other Side of the Wind (1970–76) Filming 'The Trial' (1981) The Dreamers (1980–82)
Television	Orson Welles' Sketch Book (1955) Around the World with Orson Welles (1955) Orson Welles and People (lost) (1956) The Fountain of Youth (1958) In the Land of Don Quixote (1964) The Orson Welles Show (1979)
Theatre	Marching Song (1932) Bright Lucifer Voodoo Macbeth (1936) Horse Eats Hat (1936) Caesar (1937–38) Too Much Johnson (1938) Native Son (1941) The Mercury Wonder Show (1943) Around the World (musical) (1946) Othello (1951) The Lady in the Ice (ballet) (1953) Moby Dick—Rehearsed (1955) Rhinoceros (1960)
Radio	Les Misérables (1937) The Shadow (1937–38) The Mercury Theatre on the Air (including "The War of the Worlds") (1938) The Campbell Playhouse (1938–40) Orson Welles Show (1941–42) Ceiling Unlimited (1942–43) Hello Americans (1942–43) The Orson Welles Almanac (1944) This Is My Best (1945) Orson Welles Commentaries (1945–46) The Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air (1946) The Adventures of Harry Lime (1951–52) The Black Museum (1951–52)
Spoken-word recordings	The Happy Prince (1946) The Airborne Symphony (1966) The Begatting of the President (1970)
Books	This is Orson Welles (co-written with Peter Bogdanovich; 1992, rev.1998) Les Bravades (1996)
Related	Frozen Peas Mercury Theatre Orson Welles Paul Masson adverts It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993 documentary) Orson Welles (Martian crater) Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014 documentary)

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