What duet performed Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas is a posthumous 1977 Christmas television special starring Bing Crosby and his family with special guests Twiggy, David Bowie, Ron Moody, Stanley Baxter and Trinity Boys Choir. It was Crosby's final Christmas special, recorded just five weeks before his death on October 14, 1977, and is also known most notably for its musical highlight of the iconic duet by the unusual pairing of Crosby and Bowie on "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy",
Let There Be Peace on Earth (song) "Let There Be Peace on Earth" is a song written by Jill Jackson-Miller and Sy Miller in 1955. It was initially written for and sung by the International Children's Choir created by Easter Beakly and Arthur Granger of the Granger Dance Academy in Long Beach, California. The song's composers led a number of rehearsals for the children's choir from 1955 to 1957, and the song continues to be the theme for this group of children who represent a host of nations and who sang in Washington, DC at the JW Marriott next to the White House in 2002.