Top o' the Morning / Emperor Waltz
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| Top o' the Morning / Emperor Waltz: Selections from the Paramount Pictures | ||||
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| Released | 1950 | |||
| Recorded | 1947, 1949 | |||
| Genre | Popular | |||
| Length | 23:41 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
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Top o' the Morning / Emperor Waltz is a Decca Records studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby of songs from his movies Top o' the Morning and The Emperor Waltz, catalog number DL 5272.
Bing Crosby had recorded the songs from his film Top o' the Morning in May and June 1949 and these were released on two separate 78 records to tie in with the film’s premiere on August 31, 1949. Following the development of the vinyl LP record by Columbia Records in 1948, Decca issued a plethora of Crosby albums in that format. Many were simply reissues of earlier 78 rpm albums but Top o' the Morning / Emperor Waltz appears to be the first 10-inch LP not to have been issued as a 78 rpm album. As the four songs from Top o' the Morning only filled one side of the LP, Decca added the four songs from the successful Bing Crosby – The Emperor Waltz 78 rpm album to complete the record.
