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    "I'll Be Home For Christmas"genre: Christmas
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    Instrumental by Steve W. Smith. On December 17, 1965, the Crosby recording became the first "request" that was broadcast into outer space.....
    MP3.com CD: The Sound Of Christmas Vol. 2 - buy it!buy it!
    CD: The Sound Of Christmas   Label: Sted Records
    Credits: Produced by: Ed Davis & Steve W. Smith ASCAP A&R Direction: Ed Davis Manufactured & Distributed by Sted Records

    Story Behind the Song
    Words by Kim Gannon. Music by Walter Kent.
    Copyright (C) 1943, renewed 1971, 1972 by Gannon & Kent Music Co., Inc. International Copyright secured. All rights reserved.
    This arrangement by Steve W. Smith ASCAP Copyright (C) 2002 by Sted Records Music.

    About This Song:
    In 1943 the world was at war, and many thousands of American men and women in the service would be spending Christmas far from home. As a special gift to them and their families came this lovely, tender ballad, recorded by Bing Crosby. Just a year earlier, Bing had had a best-seller with Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," and his recording of this new song by Kim Gannon and Walter Kent also passed the million-record mark in sales. On December 17, 1965, the Crosby recording became the first "request" that was broadcast into outer space. As astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman were hurtling back to earth aboard Gemini 7 after their record 206 orbigs, a NASA transmitter asked if there was any music they would especially like to hear. Their immediate reply? Bing's "I'll Be Home For Christmas."

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