Decca has scored a terrific scoop in packaging 12 songs from the Irving Berlin score for Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby's movie Holiday Inn, which is already flashing on the country's screens. The album is the entire weekly release from the wax factory—and apart the music it contains, it's more than just another album, it's almost a transposition on wax of the screen score all capably executed by Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire....Plattermate is the ballad hit from the picture Be Careful It's My Heart, Crosby singing it softly and rhythmically. Trotter's soft strings and woodwinds paint the orchestral background…Album finishes in a blaze of vocal glory, most impressive in Bing Crosby's plaintive appeal for a White Christmas, assisted by the Ken Darby Singers and Trotter's music…"[3]
Original track listing
These newly issued songs were featured on a 6-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-306.[4] Discs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 are sung by Bing Crosby while Disc 5 is sung by Fred Astaire. On Disc 4, both sing on the track "I'll Capture Your Heart".
Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
2:59
B. "Let's Start the New Year Right"
May 25, 1942
Bob Crosby and His Orchestra
2:33
Re-issue track listing
In 1946, a set was released with some of the songs from the movie. It featured all of songs except for "White Christmas" and a few others because they would sell more as a single than with a set. These reissued songs were featured on a 4-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-534.[5]
Disc 1 (23820): "Happy Holiday" / "Be Careful, it's My Heart"
Disc 2 (23821): "Abraham" / "Song of Freedom"
Disc 3 (23822): "You're Easy to Dance With" / "I Can't Tell A Lie"
Disc 4 (23823): "I'll Capture Your Heart" / "Let's Start the New Year Right"
The titles "White Christmas", "Easter Parade", "I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For" and "Lazy", were available separately as 78-rpm discs for US $0.75 each, during this period.
LP track listing
The 1949 10" LP album issue Decca DL 5092 consisted of eight songs on one 33 1/3 rpm record, and did not include four of the songs. All were reissues of earlier recordings.[6]
Side 1
"Happy Holiday"
"Be Careful, it's My Heart"
"Abraham"
"Song of Freedom"
Side 2
"You're Easy to Dance With"
"I Can't Tell A Lie"
"I'll Capture Your Heart"
"Let's Start the New Year Right"
Other releases
In 1962, Decca released Selections from Holiday Inn on Decca DL 4256 with a new pinkish look for the set
Bing's Hollywood
. It included all of the recorded songs.
In 1998, MCA released a
CD
re-issue of the Selections from Holiday Inn.
In 2008 UMG released a CD edition of the original version with the DVD release of Holiday Inn.