[78-L] Xmas Music

[David Lennick]

That IS the original, and common enough, but not issued under any other number 
(except English Brunswick 03384). The A take may have appeared on CD but wasn't 
usable for 78 (it may have a small flub). The remake is on Decca 23778, mx DLA 
4374, recorded March 19/47. How Whitburn manages to chart this in December 1946 
is just one of the many reasons you should never rely on his listings.

dl

Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
> 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
>>>>