"I'll Be Home for Christmas" Bing Crosby

"I'll Be Home for Christmas" / Bing Crosby, video produced by Donna Freeberg and Scott Taylor for ShoutOut3D with lyrics by Kim Gannon and composer Walter Kent featuring Bing Crosby with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra. Animation and editing by Scott Taylor, Art direction by Donna Freeberg. [For best viewing resolution, please set your YouTube settings to HD 1080p!]

"I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song written by the lyricist Kim Gannon and composer Walter Kent and recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby, who scored a top ten hit with the song. Originally written to honor soldiers overseas who longed to be home at Christmas time, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" has since gone on to become a Christmas standard.

On October 1, 1943, Crosby recorded the song under the title "I'll Be Home for Christmas (If Only in My Dreams)", with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra for Decca Records. Within a month of release, the song charted for 11 weeks, with a peak at number three. The next year, the song reached number 16 on the charts.

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This video production is dedicated to those who struggle everyday with Cancer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimers, to our nation's veterans and first responders, and to those with disabilities and mental health challenges.

For the artists, poets, musicians and creators, and for those who appreciate and support their work.

For the lost, the marginalized, the disenfranchised, the lonely and homeless,

and for you, - our family and friends, those near and far, here and gone, that you will always be "Home For Christmas, If Only In Your Dreams."

Peace, Love and Happy Hopeful Holidays.
~ Donna & Scott!

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Lyrics

I'll be home for Christmas
You can plan on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
I'll be home for Christmas
You can plan on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree
Christmas Eve'll find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
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