The Happy Prince (Bing Crosby and Orson Welles album)

The Happy Prince is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby and Orson Welles of the Oscar Wilde short story The Happy Prince.

The story had been adapted for radio by Orson Welles in 1944, featuring a musical score by Bernard Herrmann.

It was aired on the Philco Radio Hall of Fame broadcast on December 24, 1944[1] featuring Bing Crosby alongside Orson Welles, with Herrmann's music conducted by Victor Young.

Down Beat magazine liked the album saying: "If you’ve been getting smothered lately in record stores with scads of children’s’ albums by everybody from Artie Shaw through Ronald Colman by way of Gene Kelly, try this one on your small son.

It’s the Oscar Wilde fairy tale with a Bernard Herrmann score, and in very much better taste than anything else being turned out for the Christmas rush.