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==Soundtrack== * "[[Aren't You Glad You're You?]]" ([[Jimmy Van Heusen]] / [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]]) sung by Bing Crosby * "[[O Come, All ye Faithful|Adeste Fideles]]" sung by Bing Crosby and children's choir * "In the Land of Beginning Again" ([[George W. Meyer]] / [[Grant Clarke]]) sung by Bing Crosby * "[[O Sanctissima]]" sung by Bing Crosby * "It's Spring" ("Vårvindar friska" in Swedish) sung by Ingrid Bergman * "[[The Bells of St. Mary's (song)|The Bells of St. Mary's]]" sung by Bing Crosby and choir<ref>The Bells of St. Mary's" is a 1917 popular song. The music was written by A. Emmett Adams, the lyrics[1] by Douglas Furber, following a visit to St. Mary's Church, Southampton, England. The Church was destroyed by enemy action in World War II, but the bell tower survived.</ref> Bing Crosby recorded four of the songs for [[Decca Records]]<ref>{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1bDecca.html|website=A Bing Crosby Discography|access-date=January 22, 2016|archive-date=October 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005054653/http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1bDecca.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and these were issued as singles as well as a 2-disc 78 rpm album titled ''[[Selections from The Bells of St. Mary's]]''. "Aren't You Glad You're You" was in the [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] charts for nine weeks with a peak position of #8. "In the Land of Beginning Again" and "[[The Bells of St. Mary's (song)|The Bells of St. Mary's]]" both charted briefly also.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Pop Memories 1890-1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research Inc|location=Wisconsin, USA|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/110 110]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/110}}</ref> Crosby's songs were also included in the [[Bing's Hollywood vols.1-15#Accentuate the Positive|''Bing's Hollywood'']] series.
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