Ballad for Americans (album)
| Decca Presents Ballad for Americans Sung by Bing Crosby | ||||
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| Released | 1940 | |||
| Recorded | 1940 | |||
| Genre | Popular, patriotic | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
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Ballad for Americans is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1940 featuring the popular "Ballad for Americans" sung by Crosby in an American-type patriotic style. In 1946, the two records in this album were put into a new album called What We So Proudly Hail. This was Crosby's first studio album that was not a reissue of earlier singles.