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Indeed the story of how peace on earth little drummer boy came to be is itself classic. The two men could not have been more different they came from different countries and different generations and the two men had radically different ideas about almost everything including fashion politics sexuality and music. So how did the two come to make music history.
It turns out that Crosby was on tour in Great Britain at the time and his management team figured such a duet would be perfect for his upcoming CBS TV special which would come to be known as Bing Crosby's Merry Old Christmas. Bowie would be one of several pop guests for the special along with Oliver's star Ron Moody and model Twiggy. The producers use such appearances to help keep the show and the star himself relevant. Bowie was a huge international star at the time but Crosby's team threw in an added incentive to lure him in.
They agreed to promote the video of the glam rockers latest single heroes during the broadcast. Bowie ended up agreeing to appear but not because of the negotiating skills of his management team. It was Bowie's mom who sealed the deal. She was a huge fan of the aging crooner and Bowie wanted to make mom happy. Crosby too was influenced by his family. His teenage children were huge Bowie fans and wanted more than anything in life to be on the set to see the avant-garde rocker singing with their dad.
On September 11, 1977 they got their wish but things didn't start off propitiously. Here's Bing Crosby's daughter. The doors opened and David walked in with his wife. They were both wearing full-length mink coats. They had matching full makeup and their hair was bright red and we were thinking oh my god.
To say there were tensions on the set would be an understatement. Crosby's son Nathaniel remembered the producers being shocked by Bowie's appearance. Here's what Bowie's son Nathaniel told reporters at the time. It almost didn't happen. The producers told him to take the lipstick off and the earring out.
It was just incredible to see the contrast. It didn't take long for Bowie to acquiesce and soon the work began. The writers got to work on the script and created a skit that took advantage of the intergenerational differences between the two singers.
The premise was simple. Crosby playing himself walks through a London mansion of relatives to find out who just rang the doorbell. The young man at the door is Bowie playing himself. Hello. You the new butler? It's been a long time since I've been the new anything. I'm David Bowie.
I live down the road. Oh. Sir Percival lets me use his piano when he's not around. He's not around is he? I can honestly say I haven't seen him but come on in.
The two continue the schtick gently poking fun at themselves and the fleeting nature of fame. Oh you're not the uh poor relation from America right? Gee news sure travels fast doesn't it? I'm Bing. Oh I'm pleased to meet you. You're the one that sings right? Well right or wrong I sing either way. Oh well I sing too.
Oh good. What kind of singing? Well mostly the contemporary stuff. Do you uh do you like modern music? Oh I think it's marvelous.
Some of it really fine. But tell me uh do you ever listen to any of the older fellas? Oh yeah sure.
I like uh John Lennon and the other one with uh Harry Nelson. Oh you go back that far huh? Oh yeah I'm not as young as I look.
None of us is these days. In fact I've got a six-year-old son and he really gets excited around the Christmas holiday thing. Do you go in for any of the traditional things in the uh Bowie household Christmas town? Oh yeah most of them really uh presents, tree, decorations, agents sliding down the chimney. What?
I was just seeing if you're paying attention. Actually uh our family do most of the things that other families do. We sing the same songs do you?
I even have a go at white Christmas. You do huh? And this one. This is my son's favorite. Do you know this one?
Oh I do indeed. It's a lovely thing. The script then called for the two men to cozy up to a baby grand piano and begin singing Little Drummer Boy. That's when everything turned south. There's something else we could sing? Composer Ian Frazier remembered Bowie asking as they reviewed the script.
We didn't know what to do. With no time to squander, Frazier along with co-writers Buzz Cohan and Larry Grossman did what artists in a jam have always done. They improvised, creating an original song Peace on Earth and an arrangement that merged the new song with the old Christmas classic. Bowie loved the melody and he agreed to perform it. One problem, the musical one was solved and the producers somehow managed to get Bowie to dress in a more subdued manner abandoning the makeup and colorful clothing for something more well subtle.
Something more traditional. Soon it was recording time. The entire set was on edge. What would happen? How would these two very different men react to each other? What would it look like?
What on earth would it sound like? Crosby's daughter recalled the moment the two men sat down to rehearse. They sat at the piano and dad was a little nervous but eventually dad realized David was an amazing musician and David realized dad was an amazing musician.
You could see them both collectively relax and then the magic it was just made. After only an hour's worth of rehearsal time, Bowie and Crosby nailed their performance. A few days after the taping, Crosby said of Bowie, he sings well as a great voice and reads lines well too. Peace on Earth Little Drummer Boy would turn out to be one of the last songs Crosby ever recorded and the last Christmas special he would ever make. Just a month later he died of a heart attack after playing a round of golf. And a month after that, Bing Crosby's Merry Old Christmas aired on CBS. His widow Catherine did an introduction as a nation wept.
But the story doesn't end there. Peace on Earth Little Drummer Boy arrived as a single five years later in November of 1982. Curiously backed by Fantastic Voyage from Bowie's 1979 album, Lodger, the single became a massive UK chart topper, landing at number three in early 1983. It was one of the best selling singles of Bowie's entire career.
Against all odds, Peace on Earth Little Drummer Boy became a Christmas classic. We have a few very talented song doctors to thank for it, along with Bowie's mom and Crosby's kids. And of course, Crosby and Bowie too. Their collaboration proved the adage that nothing has the power to bring people together more than music.
It was true then and it's still true now. The story behind Bowie and Bing's unlikely Hollywood duet here on Our American Stories. Sound is personal, intimate and emotive. Just like this podcast. We are audio stack.ai. We combine AI writing. The best synthetic voices like ours.
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