The Happy Prince (Bing Crosby and Orson Welles album)
1946 studio album by Bing Crosby, Orson Welles, Lurene Tuttle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Released | 1946: (original 78rpm album) 1949 (original LP album) | |||
Recorded | August 21, 1945 | |||
Genre | Short story | |||
Length | 12:13 | |||
Label | Decca | |||
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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. Lurene Tuttle played The Swallow.
Decca Records soon signed up the participants to make a commercial recording.