[78-L] Xmas Music

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

About "White Christmas", the Decca version, it's not clear to me.
DLA3009B is the commonest version, found on Decca 18429, etc. But where 
can you find the first take ?

BC
Le 25 déc. 08, à 20:21, David Lennick a écrit :

>
> Margaret LEINHART (not Lenhart) sings on one side, I'll Capture Your 
> Heart (the
> one with Fred Astaire). All the other Holiday Inn songs are solos by 
> Bing,
> recorded May 25-June 1, 1942..no female voice on White Christmas 
> except in the
> movie (and on Sountrak 112, and that was just a good guess on my part 
> about
> Martha Mears).
>
> dl
>
> Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
>> Margaret Lenhart was on the Decca sides.
>>
>> Martha Mears recorded the soundtrack (on LP: Sountrak STK112)
>>
>> Bing introduced "White Christmas" on the "Kraft Music Hall", Christmas
>> 1941.
>>
>> BC
>> Le 25 déc. 08, à 10:53, Taylor Bowie a écrit :
>>
>>> Thanks for the info,  David.  Of course I know that movie soundtracks
>>> were
>>> not issued to the public in the 40s,  but many of them are available
>>> to the
>>> public today and I have heard them on sound systems in public places.
>>>
>>> I have to admit that I never played the record in the album set and 
>>> had
>>> somehow always assumed that it was the same as the one we hear all 
>>> the
>>> time
>>> on the radio every Christmas.
>>>
>>> I met a woman here in Seattle some years ago named Margaret Lenhardt
>>> (sp?)
>>> who either dubbed for Reynolds in the movie,  or is on the Decca
>>> album...anyone have the right info on that?
>>>
>>> It's early Christmas Day here in Seattle,  and so far no more
>>> snow...sorry,
>>> Bing!
>>>
>>> Taylor B
>>>
>>>
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