The Peggy Lee Bio-Discography:
A Gallery Of Albums That Feature Lee's Recordings With Bing Crosby
by Iván Santiago
Page generated on Sep 17, 2021
Scope And Contents
The majority of the issues displayed in this page are Bing Crosby albums which contain guest vocals by Peggy Lee. In all cases, the vocals are studio recordings. (Bear in mind that Crosby and Lee also worked together on the radio, in a large number of broadcasts. Albums which contain performances from those broadcasts are covered not herein but in a separate page of this photographic gallery.) For further clarification on the contents of the present page, and for advice on how to locate particular albums, see note at the bottom.
I. SELECTIONS FROM IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS
Album Covers Shown:
1. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: 78-rpm album & EP & 12" LP / Label: DECCA / Cat. Num.: A 956 & Ed 819 (91463-91465) & Dl 8083 / Rel. Year: 1954 / Note: Only the LP configuration is shown above. Images of the American EP set and the American 78-rpm album will be shown in the picture rows below.
2. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: LP / Label: Brunswick / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Lat 8044 / Rel. Year: 1954 / Note: Earliest British edition of the album under discussion. Later British editions are also shown below.
3. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: LP / Label: Columbia / Cat. Num.: (Australia) 330 Sx 7506 / Rel. Year: 1955 / Note: A different photo of Peggy lee was chosen for each of the albums presented in this picture row.
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4. Title: Noel Blanc / Format: LP / Label: CID / Cat. Num.: (France) 263.539 / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: In addition to this CID LP, there might have also a French reissue on MCA. (The vague details at hand point to such a possibility. So far, no corroborating evidence has come forth, though.)
5. Title: Natal Branco / Format: LP / Label: Decca / Cat. Num.: (Brazil) Mg 3780 / Rel. Year: 1955
6. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: LP / Label: MCA / Cat. Num.: (Japan) 7151 / Rel. Year: 1974 / Note: Another Japanese vinyl issue will be present in one of the picture rows below.
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7. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: LP / Label: Decca / Cat. Num.: (Germany?) Bkl 8044 / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: Although this LP bears the legend "made in England," neither its stated label (Decca) nor its catalogue prefix (Blk) point to a British origin. Germany would be a more logical choice for country of release.
8-10. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: LP & CS & CD / Label: MCA / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Mcl 1777 & Mclc 1777 & Dmcl 1777 / Rel. Year: 1983 and/or 1985 (LP, CS); 1990 (CD) / Note: As specified above, the album under discussion was originally released on Decca in the US, and on Brunswick in the UK. Shown in the present set of photos is a British reissue on MCA, the company that acquired Decca in the 1960s. The first Image presents the cassette configuration, while the other two suggests that MCA reissued the album twice on vinyl. I have no official documentation on the matter. My secondary sources show discrepancies pertaining to the release date of the MCA issue, The year is given as 1983 in some of them, 1985 in others. Perhaps one of the MCA LPs above is from 1983, the other from 1985. Moving on to the CD edition, I should point out that I have not been able to verify its existence. Such a CD is listed in the documentation that I consulted, but I have never seen an actual physical copy bearing that catalogue number. (There is a British MCA CD. It is listed below. However, its catalogue number is not 1777, nor was it released in 1990.)
Album Covers Shown:
11. The original American 78-rpm album. It is actually a boxed set release. Unlike its later counterparts, this 78 album edition lists 11 tracks -- not twelve. "Blue Skies," a duet sung by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, is the unlisted track. Although I have not listened to the 78 album, I am inclined to believe that the number was erroneously left unlisted from the album, as it seems to be the second part of a medley which starts with the song "Mandy," which is listed in all editions. For more general detail about the release, consult entry #1.
12. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: LP / Label: MCA Victor / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Vim 7277 / Rel. Year: 1981 / Note: For an earlier Japanese vinyl issue, see entry #6 above.
13. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: LP / Label: Fonit / Cat. Num.: (Italy) Dl 8083 / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: On the vinyl, the album title is given in Italian (Selezione Di Motive Del Film Bianco Natale).
Artwork Shown:
14. Title: Irving Berlin's Navidades Blancas / Format: EP / Label: Columbia / Cat. Num.: (Spain) Ecge 70053 / Rel. Year: 1954 / Note: The above-shown EP (Ecgs 70053) includes the three songs that are sequenced last in the American EP and LP. One of them features Lee.
15. Title: Irving Berlin's Navidades Blancas / Format: EP / Label: Columbia / Cat. Num.: (Spain) Ecge 70054 / Rel. Year: 1954 / Note: Contains four tracks, none of which features Peggy Lee. In the United States, the original EP edition of Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas was a boxed set, consisting of three 7" vinyl discs. In Spain, the 7" discs were not boxed, but apparently sold individually, each with its own album cover.
16. Title: Irving Berlin's Navidades Blancas / Format: EP / Label: Columbia / Cat. Num.: (Spain) Ecge 70056 / Rel. Year: 1954 / Note: The above-shown EP (Ecgs 70053) contains the album's first four songs. 
Artwork Shown:
17. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas... / Format: 10" LP / Label: Decca / Cat. Num.: (Belgium) Us 233147 / Rel. Year: probably 1954 or 1955 / Note: Includes eight of the ten tracks found on 12" LP and CD editions. Peggy Lee's version of "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me" is one of the skipped tracks. Her other solo, "Sisters," is included, and so are the numbers that she sings in conjunction with the stars of the film.
18-20. Photos of the original US EP issue, which consisted of a box with three discs inside. Its front cover can be seen on the first image, its back cover on the second picture. (That back cover is also found in most editions of the album.) The last photo showcases the inner sides of the box. For more general details about this issue, go back to entry #1.
Album Covers Shown:
21 & 22. These front covers are displayed herein merely as supplementary material. Peggy Lee is not featured in either of these Japanese EPs (Decca Dep 113 and Decca Sdw 10047, respectively). Both of them give a clearer and full color view of the backdrop seen in the front cover of the album Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas. This backdrop or picture is actually a still from the movie Irving Berlin's White Christmas. In addition to supplying a better view of the artwork featured in the album under discussion, I believe that these two items qualify as worthwhile curiosities of possible interest to Crosby fans.
General Note:
The Paramount film Irving Berlin's White Christmas starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen. All four stars are heard singing in the soundtrack of this cinematic musical. (In Vera Ellen's case, her singing was actually dubbed by Trudi Stevens.)
Taking advantage of the fact that both Crosby and Kaye were under its contract, the Decca company decided to release its own version of the soundtrack. Entitled Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Decca's album features Crosby, Kaye, and Trudi Stevens, but not Rosemary Clooney, who at this time was under record contract with Columbia. Hence Decca and Crosby enlisted Lee to interpret the numbers which Clooney sings in the movie.
Peggy Lee participates in four of the Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas tracks. She sings by herself in "Love, You Didn't Right By Me" and with herself in "Sisters." The other two tracks ("Snow" and the "White Christmas Finale") are quartet performances in which she shares vocals with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Trudi Stevens.
Album Covers Shown:
23. Title: Selectioms From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: CD / Label: MCA Victor / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Mvcm 172 / Rel. Year: 1992 / Note: Advertised as a limited edition.
24. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: CD / Label: MCA Special Markets & Products / Cat. Num.: Msd 35554 / Rel. Year: 1994 / Note: Might have also been pressed in the United Kingdom, and the catalogue number could differ from one country to the other. 
Album Covers Shown:
25 & 26. Title: Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: CS & CD / Label: MCA / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Mclc 19191 & Mcld 19191 / Rel. Year: 2002 / Note: This reissue was part of MCA's budget series. 
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27. Title: Songs from Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn And White Christmas (Diamond Anniversary Edition) / Format: CD / Label: Universal's MCA / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) 113099 2 / Rel. Year: 2002 / Note: A twofer that combines two Decca albums, both of them based on Bing Crosby movie featuring songs written by Irving Berlin. Of course, one of the twofered albums is the one under discussion.
28. Title: Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: CD / Label: Prism Leisure Platinum / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Platcd 1339 / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: The front cover shows a scene from the White Christmas movie. Among those seen in the scene are Bing Crosby and Gene Kelly. Peggy Lee is seen as well, despite the fact that she did not participate in the film. Her face has been added to the cover of this Public Domain disc, in order to reflect her participation on the CD itself. Besides the full contents of the original Decca album, the CD's track listing includes 11 additional Decca numbers, all sung by Crosby. Most of these bonus tracks are also songs from his films.
29. Title: The Ultimate White Christmas / Format: CD / Label: Castle Communications's Pulse / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Plscd 771 / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: This Public Domain CD combines Decca's Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas with Rosemary Clooney's own movie-inspired recordings, which she did for Columbia Records. On a different note, this CD's notes errs when it describes Peggy Lee's rendition of "Sisters" as a duet between her and Trudy Stevens. The Lee version is exclusively sung by Lee. (In other words, she plays in song the two titular sisters.) 
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30 & 31. Title: Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Format: DVD-CD combo / Label: Paramount, Universal, Turner Movie Classics, Starbucks' Hear Music / Cat. Num.: 7 62111 72033 7 [DVD] & 06014 [CD] / Rel. Year: 2006 / Note: This combo release was offered at Starbucks coffee stores for a brief seasonal period. It was made in association with Turner Movie Classics. The "bonus CD inside," credited to Universal, is believed to be another reissue of the album under discussion. (I do not own a copy.)
32 & 33. Title: White Christmas; Vintage Music, O.S.T. 1954 / Format: CD / Label: Calle Mayor / Cat. Num.: (Spain) St 0071 / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: Public Domain reissue of the original Decca 12" LP. Part of a series dedicated to vintage film soundtracks (or versions of them). Note a few similarities with the aforementioned 2007 PD CD, some of them perhaps coincidental (catalogue number), others not so much (mistaken crediting of the "Sisters" track to both Stevens and Lee, rather than just Lee).
II. SELECTIONS FROM THE PARAMOUNT PICTURE ROAD TO BALI
Albums Shown:
1. Title: Selections From The Paramount Picture Road To Bali / Format: 78-rpm album & EP & 10" LP / Label: DECCA / Cat. Num.: A 926 (28514-28515) & 9 375 (three 45-rpm discs) & Dl 5444 / Rel. Year: January 1953 / Note: Peggy Lee is heard in the numbers "Moonflowers" and "Merry-go-runaround." The pictured cover belongs to the EP. (The other American configurations will be showcased right below, in the next row of pictures.)
2. Title: Selections From The Paramount Picture Road To Bali / Format: 10" LP / Label: Columbia / Cat. Num.: (Australia) 33OS 7503 / Rel. Year: 1953 / Note: Australian LP edition of the preceding issue. (If there are also Australian 45-rpm or 78-rpm configurations, they remain elusive. I am more inclined to believe that they do not exist.) The photo of Peggy Lee is different from the one used on the American counterparts.
Items Shown:
3. The already listed American 10" LP edition of the album (entry #1).
4 & 5. The already listed American 78-rpm edition of the album (entry #1). It is actually a boxed set.
Album Cover Shown:
6. Title: "Road To Bali" Selection / Format: 10" LP / Label: Brunswick / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) La 8578 / Rel. Year: unknown, most likely 1953; otherwise 1954 / Note: The British equivalent of item #3, featuring the same tracks.
7 & 8. Title: El Camino De Bali (Serie De "Canto Y Música De Películas") / Format: EP / Label: Columbia / Cat. Num.: (Spain) Ecge 70.022 / Rel. Year: 1955 / Note: Same tracks as in all previous entries. As can be seen, these two pictures show front covers that are not quite identical. My acquaintance with the item(s) is limited to these images, found on the web; my main sources offer no details about this entry. In the front cover of the first of these images, the item identifies itself as an EP. No such identification is visible in the other front cover, thereby raising the possibility of its being a 10" LP. Then again, both covers carry the exact same catalogue number. Perhaps they are merely different pressings of the same EP.
General Note:
The film Road To Bali starred Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. All three entertainers had previously sung on film and on record. When Decca could not satisfactorily arrange Lamour's participation in a Decca album of this movie's performances, Bing Crosby and company recruited Peggy Lee to take over two of the numbers that the actress sings in the soundtrack. Decca's and Crosby's choice of Lee as a suitable singing partner is not surprising. Due to the numerous radio shows that they had done together in the past, Crosby and Lee had a long-established professional rapport. Moreover, at the time of these sessions, she had just joined the record label.
Titled Selections From The Paramount Picture Road To Bali, the original issue features two numbers in which Peggy Lee participates: a solo vocal ("Moon Flowers") and a trio vocal in which she shares honors with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope ("Merry-go-runaround"). That trio performance has been included in some Bing Crosby compilations, of course, and also in some Peggy Lee anthologies. It is in Bob Hope issues, however that it has appeared most frequently.
9. Title: Zing A Little Zong ("Bing's Hollywood" Series) / Format: LP / Label: DECCA / Cat. Num.: Dl 4263 / Rel. Year: 1962 / Note: Includes the full contents of #1 above, along with songs from another Crosby film, Just For You.
10. Title: Zing A Little Zong / Format: LP / Label: Festival / Cat. Num.: (Australia) Fl 30.917 / Rel. Year: unknown; possibly 1962 / Note: Australian version of the preceding item.
11. Title: Zing A Little Zong ("Bing's Hollywood" Series; Bing 14) / Format: LP / Label: Brunswick / Cat. Num.: unknown; possibly 14 / Rel. Year: unknown; possibly 1962 / Note: British version of the two preceding items
12. Zing A Little Zong belongs to the 15-volume series shown herein. Originally issued in 1962, the LP series concentrated on Crosby's movie-related work. Many of these volumes were redesigned versions of earlier Decca EPs and 10" LPs. Since each volume contains recordings from two, three, or four films, they can be considered twofers, threefers, even "4fers" from the vinyl era. A 1988 attempt to revive the series proved short-lived when MCA was disappointed at the low demand of the first few reissues. Next, on the late 1990s, the Jasmine label Jasmine took upon itself to release its own Bing Hollywood series, in the form of six compact discs. Being a Public Domain label, Jasmine circumscribed its time period to the 1930s and 1940s, thereby falling short of including any material that might have involved Peggy Lee. 
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13. Title: Bob Hope In Hollywood / Format: LP & CS / Label: MCA / Cat. Num.: Mca 906 & Mcac 906 / Rel. Year: 1984 / Note: This LP (and all the Bob Hope compilations to be mentioned next) include only one track featuring Peggy Lee. The track is "Merry-go-runaround," sung by the threesome of Big Crosby, Bob Hope, and Peggy Lee. The number was originally issued on the Decca EP Selections From The Paramount Picture Road To Bali (item #1 above).
14. Title: Memories - Bob Hope & Friends / Format: CD / Label: Dynamic (also Essential Gold) / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Dyn 2100 / Rel. Year: 2004 (also 2006) / Note: 20 tracks. The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround."
15. Title: Songs ("Movie Star Collection" Series) / Format: CD / Label: Deja Vu / Cat. Num.: (Italy) Dgvh 710 2 / Rel. Year: 1995 / Note: The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround." This was the second Bob Hope compilation from Deja Vu to feature that recording. The earlier compilation is listed below.
16 & 17. Title: The Best Of Bob Hope; Thanks For The Memory / Format: CD & CS / Label: Half Moon / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Hmncd 033 / Rel. Year: 1998 [reissued 2000, 2003] / Note: As shown above, this Half Moon CD has been released with different artwork. The most commonly found artwork is the one seen in the second image. The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround." 
Album Covers Shown:
18. Title: Thanks For The Memories / Format: CD / Label: MCA / Cat. Num.: 10611 / Rel. Year: 1992 / Note: The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround."
19. Title: Thanks For The Memory / Format: CD / Label: Prism Leisure Platinum / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) 992 / Rel. Year: 2003 / Note: The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround."
20. Title: Memories / Format: CD / Label: Rajon's Dynamic / Cat. Num.: (Australia) Dyn 2100 52 / Rel. Year: 2004 / Note: The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround."
21. Title: Bob Hope ("Universal Legends" Series) / Format: CD / Label: MCA Victor / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Mvce 24089 / Rel. Year: 1998 / Note: The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround."
22. Title: How'd Ja Like To Love Me? / Format: CD / Label: Pegasus / Cat. Num.: (France) Peg 918 / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround."
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23. Title: Thanks For The Memory / Format: CD / Label: United Audio Entertainment / Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) Uax 96232 / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround."
24. Title: Thanks For The Memory / Format: CD / Label: ASV Living Era / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Aja 5493 / Rel. Year: 2003 / Note: The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround."
25. Title: Thanks For The Memories / Format: CD / Label: Direct Source / Cat. Num.: (Canada) 2616 / Rel. Year: 2003 / Note: The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround."
26 & 27. Title: The Bob Hope Collection / Format: CS & LP / Label: Deja Vu / Cat. Num.: (Italy) Dvmc/Dvlp 2124 / Rel. Year: 1988 / Note: The one track featuring Peggy Lee is "Merry-go-runaround." Also listed above is a Bob Hope CD from Deja Vu, in which the same track was issued.
III. BING SINGS, NO. 2 & BING, RARE STYLE & THE EP COLLECTION
Album Cover Shown:
1. Title: Bing Sings, No. 2 / Format: EP / Label: Brunswick / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Oe 9467 / Rel. Year: 1959 / Note: This British EP was the original release of "The Possibility's There," a Decca-owned duet featuring Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee. The EP's other tracks are "The Longest Walk," "Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay," and "The Loneliness Of Evening," all of them Crosby solos.
2. Title: Bing, Rare Style / Format: LP / Label: Ace Of Hearts / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Ah 164 / Rel. Year: 1967 / Note: "The Possibility's There" made its second appearance on this album, released by a budget branch of British MCA.
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3. Title: The EP Collection / Format: CS & CD / Label: See-For-Miles / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) See Ck 360 & See Cd 360 / Rel. Year: 1992 / Note: This CD collects tracks from Bing Crosby's EP albums on Brunswick, including #1 above.
4. Title: The Best Of The Decca Years / Format: CD / Label: MCA / Cat. Num.: Mcad 11571 / Rel. Year: 1997 / Note: As of 2011, this is the only issue by Peggy Lee which includes "The Possibility's There."
IV. PEGGY LEE AND BING CROSBY
Album Cover Shown:
1-4. Title: Peggy Lee And Bing Crosby ("Sound Stream Selection" Series) / Format: LP / Label: MCA / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Vim 8019 and 8020 / Tracks: 24 / Rel. Year: unknown / Discs: 2 / Note: Seen in three of the images above is the gatefold album under scrutiny. It contains two LPs, numbered #8019 and #8020. The latter is entirely dedicated to Peggy Lee's recordings, the former to Bing Crosby recordings. (When I originally entered this album in the present page, I did not know its track listing; hence I speculated about the inclusion of one or more Crosby-Lee duets. My speculation turned out to be off the mark: there are no duets. The lack of duets does not negate the album's qualifications as a Crosby-Lee item, however. Hence there is no compelling reason to drop its entry from the present page.) Japanese MCA also issued a companion album of sorts, entitled Louis Armstrong And Peggy Lee ("The Big Stars" Series), which features Armstrong's tracks on one side, Lee's tracks on the other side. As for image #3, it shows what seems to be another album from the same series -- presumably, a various-artists compilation.
V. MISCELLANEOUS BING CROSBY ISSUES, PART I: MCA COMPILATIONS
Album Cover Shown:
1. Title: Bing Crosby With Jazz Friends / Format: CD / Label: Universal / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Ucc 3032 / Rel. Year: 2003 / Note: Contains just one track featuring Peggy Lee in duet with Bing Crosby, "Watermelon Weather."
2. Title: The Voice Of Christmas; The Complete Decca Christmas Songbook / Format: CD / Label: MCA / Cat. Num.: 11840 / Volumes: 2 / Rel. Year: 1998 / Note: This 2CD set contains three tracks with Peggy Lee ("Little Jack Frost Get Lost," "Snow" and "White Christmas Finale").
3. Title: The Voice Of Christmas; 44 Festive Favourites / Format: CD / Label: MCA / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) unknown / Volumes: 2 / Rel. Year: 2010 / Note: British budget reissue edition of item #1. Same tracks, no liner notes. 
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4 - 6. Title: Bing; His Legendary Years / Format: CS & CD / Label: MCA / Cat. Num.: C4 10887 & D4 10887 / Rel. Year: 1994 / Volumes: 4 / Note: Contains just one track featuring Peggy Lee in duet with Bing Crosby, "Watermelon Weather."
VI. MISCELLANEOUS BING CROSBY ISSUES, PART II: LICENSED AND PUBLIC DOMAIN COMPILATIONS OF NOTE 
Album Covers Shown:
1. Title: Through The Years, Volume 4, 1952-1953 / Format: CD / Label: Sepia / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) 1139 / Rel. Year: 2009 / Note: Contains four vocals with Peggy Lee ("The Moon Came Up With A Great Idea Last Night," "Watermelon Weather," "Merry-Go-Runaround," and "Little Jack Frost Get Lost"). This CD is part of an ongoing series, dedicated to the release of Bing Crosby's masters in chronological order.
2. Title: Through The Years, Volume 6, 1953-1954 / Format: CD / Label: Sepia / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) 1158 / Rel. Year: 2010 / Note: Contains two vocals with Peggy Lee ("Snow," "White Christmas Finale"). This CD is part of an ongoing series, dedicated to the release of Bing Crosby's masters in chronological order.
3. Title: Through The Years, Volume 9, 1955-1956 / Format: CD / Label: Sepia / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) 1185 / Rel. Year: 2012 / Note: Contains one duet with Peggy Lee ("The Possibility's There"). This CD is part of an ongoing series, dedicated to the release of Bing Crosby's masters in chronological order. 
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4-6. Title: The Very Best Of Bing / Format: LP & CS / Label: World Record Club / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) 1973 / Volumes: 7 / Rel. Year: 2011 / Note: Lovingly prepared by the mail club branch of EMI in the United Kingdom, this is an attractively designed anthology, as suggested by the front covers of the seven cassettes, shown in the last image above. The same front covers are found on the LP counterparts. The set's front cover (penultimate image above) is also the same on both configurations. In the case of the LPs, each back cover boasts backdrop coloration and features lengthy lines notes from British producer Ken Barnes, along with a few black & white photos. (The cassette set might also include the liner notes, but I do not have confirmation on the matter.) A collectors' club edition, the set was originally offer with a printed letter signed by Crosby. Note also that World gave individual catalogue numbers to each of the set's LPs and tapes. The 7th LP and its cassette counterpart bear an additional F in the catalogue numbers: Smf 297 instead of just Sm 297 (LP) and just Csmf 297 instead of Tccsmf 297 (cassette). The fact that these #7 parts are titled Bing & Friends probably accounts for the additional letter. Smf 297 is a gatefold album, and, judging from the way it looks in the picture above, Csmf 297 might be super-sized, too. Includes "Merry-Go-Runaround," sung by the trio of Crosby, Lee, and Bob Hope. 
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7. Title: Christmas With Bing / Format: CS & LP & CD / Label: Pickwick International's Hallmark / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Hsc392 & Shm 3292 & Pwks 561 / Rel. Year: 1989 / Note: Contains two vocals in which Peggy Lee is co-featured (Little Jack Frost Get Lost," "Snow"). Identical front cover on all three configurations; the CD is pictured above. Possibly a licensed release. (Hallmark had not yet fully transitioned into a Public Domain label)
8. Title: Christmas With Bing / Format: CD / Label: Pickwick International's Hallmark / Cat. Num.: (Australia) Pwkm 4012 / Rel. Year: 1989 or later / Note: Re-designed reissue of the preceding release. Made for the Australian market. Contains the same two vocals in which Peggy Lee is co-featured (Little Jack Frost Get Lost," "Snow"). The back cover states that MCA licensed the tracks to Hallmark. The 1989 date on that back cover might point to the year on which the tracks were originally licensed, rather than the year in which this reissue came out.
9. Title: Songs For Christmas ("Christmas Legends" Series / Format: CD / Label: Intermusic / Cat. Num.: (Portugal & The Neterlands) 25266 / Rel. Year: 2004 / Note: This Public Domain CD also contains the same two duet vocals as the preceding items (i.e, Little Jack Frost Get Lost," "Snow").
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10. Title: Bing Crosby & Friends / Format: CD / Label: Allegro's Lifestyles / Cat. Num.: Lif 160049 / Rel. Year: 2003 / Note: This budget, ten-track CD includes the Bing Crosby-Peggy Lee duet "Little Jack Frost Get Lost."
11. Title: Christmas Treasures / Format: CD / Label: Allegro's Lifestyles / Cat. Num.: Lif 461049 / Rel. Year: 2009 / Note: Re-designed reissue of the preceding item, containing the same Crosby-Lee duet (Little Jack Frost Get Lost").
12. Title: Christmas With Bing Crosby / Format: CD / Label: unknown / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) 5 060442 750883 / Rel. Year: 2016 / Note: This twelve-track CD includes the Big Crosby-Peggy Lee duet "Little Jack Frost Get Lost" as well as "Snow," their quartet performance performance with Danny Kaye and Trudi Stevens. 
Album Covers Shown:
13. Title: Bing Crosby & Friends / Format: CD / Label: Lifestyles / Cat. Num.: 14150 / Rel. Year: 2009 / Note: This Public Domain item contains Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby's duet "Little Jack Frost Get Lost."
14. Title: Bing ("Stars Of The Silver Screen" Series) / Format: CD / Label: Yesteryear (a sub-label of The Green Label Music Company) / Discs: 3 / Cat. Num.: 0351318 (United Kingdom) / Rel. Year: 2007 / Note: This Public Domain 3CD set contains the Peggy Lee- Bing Crosby duo "Watermelon Weather," originally on Decca Records. Yesteryear was a British label with office in Leatherhead, Surrey. The CD copy that I inspected carries the legend "produced exclusively for Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Limited."
15. Title: Bing Crosby And Friends Collection ("Black And White" Series) / Format: CD / Label: Rajon Music Group / Cat. Num.: (Australia) 774460 / Rel. Year: 2005 / Discs: 2 / Note: This Public Domain compilation includes three vocals with Peggy Lee ("The Moon Came Up With A Great Idea Last Night," "Watermelon Weather," and "Merry-Go-Runaround").
16. Title: Duets With Friends / Format: CD / Label: Pegasus / Cat. Num.: (France) Pegcd 354 / Rel. Year: 2008 / Note: This Public Domain CD contains two vocals with Peggy Lee ("Merry-Go-Runaround" and "The Moon Came Up With A Great Idea Last Night").
17. Title: Bing Crosby & Friends / Format: CD / Label: Music Club / Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Mccd 089 / Rel. Year: 1999 / Note: This licensed CD contains just one vocal with Peggy Lee ("The Moon Came Up With A Great Idea Last Night").
18. Title: Duets with Friends / Format: CD / Label: Blue Moon / Cat. Num.: (Spain) Bmcd 3014 / Rel. Year: 1994 / Note: This licensed CD contains two vocals with Peggy Lee ("Watermelon Weather" and "Merry-Go-Runaround").
19. Title: Bing Crosby ("Here's" Series) / Format: CD / Label: Disky / Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) Sl 905656 / Rel. Year: 2008 / Note: Includes the Crosby-Lee duet "Watermelon Weather." This licensed item is one in a series that also released a full Peggy Lee volume.
20. Title: The Very Best Of Bing Crosby / Format: CD / Label: One Day Music / Cat. Num.: unknown / Volumes: 2 / Rel. Year: 2011 / Note: This Public Domain 2CD set contains Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby's duet "Watermelon Weather."
21. Title: Duets And More / Format: CD / Label: unknown / Cat. Num.: Fmc 009 / Rel. Year: 1997 / Note: This Public Domain issue contains one performance featuring Peggy Lee with Bing Crosby ("The Moon Came Up With A Great Idea Last Night").
General Note
Dedicated to Public Domain releases, the present section purports to be representative. Doubtlessly, the list above could be enlarged with the addition of yet more PD issues credited to Bing Crosby, and featuring Peggy Lee. However, my intention herein has been to be comprehensive -- not exhaustive. Viewers planning to make purchases should bear in mind that each of Peggy Lee's studio duets with Bing Crosby can also be found in her own official CDs, and also on Crosby's official anthologies.
Index
The following alphabetical list includes every relevant album whose image is displayed in this page. To locate a given image, use as your guideline the Roman numeral that follows each title.
Best Of The Decca Years, The: III
Bing ("Stars Of The Silver Screen" Series): VI
Bing; His Legendary Years: V
Bing, Rare Style: III
Bing Crosby & Friends [Lifestyles release]: VI
Bing Crosby & Friends [Music Club release]: VI
Bing Crosby With Jazz Friends: V
Bing Crosby And Friends Collection ("Black And White" Series): VI
Bing Sings, No. 2: III
Bob Hope In Hollywood: II
Christmas Favorites: VI
Christmas With Bing: VI
Duets And More: VI
Duets With Friends (Blue Moon release): VI
Duets With Friends (Pegasus release): VI
El Camino De Bali (Serie De "Canto Y Música De Películas"): II
EP Collection, The: III
Here's Bing Crosby: VI
Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Selections From): I
Noel Blanc: I
Peggy Lee And Bing Crosby ("Sound Stream Selection" Series): IV
"Road To Bali" Selection: II
Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas: I
Selections From The Paramount Picture Road To Bali: II
Songs For Christmas: VI
Thanks For The Memories: II
Through The Years, Volume 4, 1952-1953: VI
Through The Years, Volume 6, 1953-1954: VI
Through The Years, Volume 9, 1955-1956: VI
Ultimate White Christmas, The: I
Very Best Of Bing Crosby, The (One Day Music): VI
Very Best Of Bing Crosby, The (World): VI
Voice Of Christmas, The; 44 Festive Favourites: V
Voice Of Christmas, The; The Complete Christmas Songbook: V
White Christmas, Selections From Irving Berlin's: I
Zing A Little Zong ("Bing's Hollywood" Series): II
Scope And Completeness
This page aims at being comprehensive, not exhaustive. Chief among items of interest are images of Crosby's official releases. As for images of his Public Domain anthologies, there is a myriad of them, many with just the odd Peggy Lee duet in them. Since their relevance is so minimal for the purposes of this discography, I have listed just a few Public Domain items, some of them chosen because they contain more Lee tracks than usual, some because they sport comparatively better sound quality. (I refer to Bing Crosby's anthologies as minimally relevant to this discography because every studio duet that Peggy Lee performed with Crosby can also be found in her CDs.)