Bowie and Crosby sang together in 1977's 'Merrie Olde Christmas' special David Bowie almost walked away from his famous and unlikely duet with Bing Crosby The rock singer agreed to the duet because ...

In 1977, a young David Bowieteamed up with legendary crooner Bing Crosby, 74, for one of the most iconic Christmas duets of all time—but it almost didn’t happen. The unlikely duo performed together on ...

When Christmas comes around, it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that Bing. With an estimated 50 million physical singles sold, Bing Crosby’s version of “White Christmas” is the best-selling ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

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 ...