The now-iconic duet between Bing Crosby and David Bowie almost didn’t happen. Filmed for Crosby’s 1977 holiday special, ...

Bing Crosby’s son lost his father when he was 19 years old, but he still hears his voice every year at any Christmas party he attends. The crooner, who remains a holiday staple with songs like "White ...

Among the lengthy list of odd and eccentric musical duets of the last 150 years, the Christmas collaboration between David Bowie and Bing Crosby in 1977 is certainly one of the most festively strange.

In 1977, David Bowie was tapped for a duet with Bing Crosby for the holiday special, Merrie Olde Christmas. He apparently did ...

As oddball collaborations go, it takes some beating: veteran crooner with a penchant for cardigans and golf throws his lot in with one of the edgiest and most innovative artists of the age. Neither ...

Back in 2016 we posted the then oft overlooked performance of "Heroes" recorded for Bing Crosby's 1977 Merrie Olde Christmas TV Special. Notable for the wonderfully bizarre, but nevertheless beautiful ...

In 1977, a young David Bowie teamed up with legendary crooner Bing Crosby, 74, for one of the most iconic Christmas duets of ...

Gioia admits that the only familiarity many today might have with him is the Christmas song “White Christmas,” which is “the ...

My facts of life in the late 1970s — a self-absorbed teenager and the youngest member of my divorced family — erected barriers that sometimes stymied my boyish notions of happy living. One of the ...

“We had decided that we wanted them to do a duet of a ‘Little Drummer Boy,’ and when we told Bowie about the number, he said, ‘I won’t sing that song.' We said, ‘Why?’ and he said, ‘I hate that song,' ...

For Bowie to agree, the writers of the Merrie Olde Christmas special had to make tweaks to the song “We had decided that we wanted them to do a duet of a ‘Little Drummer Boy,’ and when we told Bowie ...