paul8539 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 2:49 am
MATT1:
No, that is not it. It was called 'Hogan's Heroes Sing the Best of World War II'. It was Newkirk, Carter, Kinchloe, and LeBeau singing some songs of the era. Hogan, Klink, and Schultz were not involved with this one.
They were actually lousy singers, and not many of the LPs sold. But it is the only place where you can hear the words to the Hogan's Heroes these song. It came out in about 1968 or 1969 or so.
Journal and Courier
Lafayette, Indiana
01 Oct 1966, Sat
Hogan's Quartet Harmonizes on Set
As devotees of "Hogan's Heroes" well know by now, the four enlisted men of the title role are as Inventive and imaginative as they are funny. And they are just as inventive and imaginative off camera as they are on the screen every Friday night on CBS-TV.
The four Richard Dawson, Robert Clary, Larry Hovis and Ivan Dixon engage in all sorts of restless activity between shots on the H*** Desilu soundstage in Hollywood. They started a year ago with gin rummy games. Now it's singing.
Their, first professional venture, a record album entitled "Hogan's Heroes Sing the Best of World War II," arranged and conducted by Jerry Fielding for Sunset Records, is solid proof of the quartet's ability to sing as well as act and play gin rummy. . '
"What s so unusual about It?" Hovis asks innocently, eyebrow raised. "After all,' Bob, Dick and I all began our careers as nightclub performers. And Ivan is a natural-born bass. You put four performers together on a soundstage, don't give " them very many lines and they're going to start singing."
This season, however, they are going to have more lines and less time for singing. Or even card playing. Producer Ed Feldman, happily aware of the impression made by the four during the show's first season on the air, says he is going to "open things up a little" and give freer rein to their comedic talents. -
"I'm like the manager of a" baseball team," says Dodger fan Feldman.. "I have to get the best possible people for every position. It's obvious that our three co-stars Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer and John Banner are ideally cast but it's equally important that each of our supporting players be able to carry a show now and again."
Thus Dawson, Clary, Hovis and Dixon will find themselves spending more time on camera and less in front of a microphone. Which might spell the end of four promising singing careers at least for the time being.
(I didn't realize that a certain four letter word that starts with "h" is automatically formatted to H***. I'd seen that many times but didn't realize that it was automatic.)
Maybe it was "the thing to do" at the time. 
There are also pictures and a poster included in the box, if that's your thing.
That was actually released as a single? 
I got curious today so I queried Google's Gemini: