BING CROSBY - SILVER BELLS

SILVER BELLS

BING CROSBY

SONGWRITERS: JAY LIVINGSTON & RAY EVANS

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: MERRY CHRISTMAS

LABEL: LEGACY ENTERTAINMENT INC.

GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG

YEAR: 1945

Silver Bells" is a popular Christmas song, composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.

"Silver Bells" was first performed by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in the motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid, filmed in July–August 1950 and released in March 1951. The first recorded version was by Bing Crosby and Carol Richards on September 8, 1950 with John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra and the Lee Gordon Singers which was released by Decca Records in October 1950. After the Crosby and Richards recording became popular, Hope and Maxwell were called back in late 1950 to refilm a more elaborate production of the song.

Merry Christmas is a compilation album by Bing Crosby that was released in 1945 on Decca Records. It has remained in print through the vinyl, CD, and downloadable file eras, currently as the disc and digital álbum White Christmas on MCA Records, a part of the Universal Music Group, (reissued in June 1995) and currently on vinyl as Merry Christmas on Geffen Records (re-issued in September 2014). It includes Crosby's signature song "White Christmas", the best-selling single of all time with estimated sales of over 50 million copies worldwide. The album has sold over 15 million copies and is the second best-selling Christmas album of all-time behind Elvis' Christmas Album, which has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide.

(Silver bells, silver bells)

It's Christmas time in the city

Ring-a-ling (ring-a-ling),

Hear them ring (ting-a-ling)

Soon it will be Christmas day.

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks.

Dressed in holiday style

In the air there's a feeling of Christmas

(Children laughing,

People passing,

Meeting smile after smile)

And on every street corner you'll hear

Silver bells, (Silver bells) Silver bells, (silver bells)

It's Christmas time in the city

Ring-a-ling (ring-a-ling),

Hear them ring (hear them ring)

Soon it will be Christmas day.

(Strings of streetlights

Even stop lights

Blink a bright red and green

As the shoppers rush

Home with their treasures

Hear the snow crunch

See the kids rush

This is Santa's big day

And above all this bustle you'll hear

Silver bells) the corner Santa Claus,

(Silver bells), it's busy now because

It's Christmas time in the city

Ring-a-ling, (it fills the winter air)

Hear them ring (you'll hear it everywhere)

Soon it will be Christmas day.

City sidewalks, (silver bells) busy sidewalks,

(Silver bells) Dressed in holiday style

In the air (It's Christmas time in the city)

There's a feeling of Christmas

Children laughing, (ring-a-ling)

People passing, (Hear them ring)

Meeting smile after smile

Very soon it will be Christmas day.