[78-L] Eartha Kitt

[Taylor Bowie]

AP just announced that Eartha Kitt has passed away in New York.

Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bertrand CHAUMELLE" <chaumelle at orange.fr>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Xmas Music


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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