I'll Be Home For Christmas

Words and Music by Walter Kent, Kim Gannon and Buck Ram

 

With Russ Case and His Orchestra

and Chorus

 

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio 2, New York City

Recording Time 2:53

 

Recorded August 06, 1946   ~  Matrix No. D6VB-2620 Take 1 - 1A

Single release: RCA-78RPM-20-1969-A

Single release: RCA-45RPM 47-2970 ( 1949 )

Single Flip Side: "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town ( with The Satisfiers )"

 

RCA Gold Standard Series  78/45-RPM-420/447-0811

Single Flip Side: "That Christmas Feeling"

 

Single release: RCA-SP-45-119 ( D6VW-2620 ) ( 1962 ) )

Single Flip Side: "( There's No Place Like ) Home for the Holidays"

 

Collectables Single release: COL-008117

Single Flip Side: "That Christmas Feeling"

 

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With Russ Case and His Orchestra

and Chorus

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio 2, New York City

Recorded August 6, 1946

 

Notes: ~ "I'll Be Home For Christmas" was written by Walter Kent, Kim Gannon and Buck Ram in 1943

and first recorded by Bing Crosby (Decca 18570) with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra in that year.

Crosby's recording reached # 3 on Billboard's Best-Selling Singles chart and sold over a million copies. 

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