St. Patrick's Day (album)

St. Patrick's Day is a compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1947 featuring songs with an Irish theme.

This includes one of Crosby's most-beloved songs, "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" which was number four on the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks, and topped the Australian charts for an entire month,[1] on shellac disc record.

3 in Billboard's best-selling popular record albums chart in March 1947[4] and was still selling well the following year when it reached No.

[6] [7] The 1949 10" LP album issue Decca DL 5037 consisted of eight songs on one 33 1/3 rpm record.

This version left out the songs "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and "The Rose of Tralee" Many of Crosby's Irish songs have been released on other newer albums, but no further incarnations of this album were produced.