Among the points the internet has in its favor is the way it organically remembers random artifacts of our pop culture. A few years ago, someone uploaded to YouTube a clip from Bing Crosby’s 1977 Christmas special for CBS. In the clip, Crosby sings a version of “The Little Drummer Boy” with, of all people, a normal-looking David Bowie.

Bowie, who died Sunday at his home in New York, was at the time a major rock star with several hit singles and 12 studio albums under his belt. He was at the height of his creative abilities, and as much of his career was ahead of Bowie as it was behind him. Crosby, on the other hand, was literally on his way out, the special taped just a month before the legendary crooner’s own death. “It’s been a long time since I’ve been the new anything,” Crosby jokes before he joins Bowie at the piano.