[78-L] White Christmas

[Randy Watts]

A550 drops "Danny Boy" and "Let's Start the New Year Right." "White Christmas" was recoupled with "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."

Randy


--- On Thu, 12/25/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] White Christmas
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 11:58 PM
> This could really drive you crazy..A550 has only 4 discs,
> A403 has 5, and 
> obviously they used the same artwork and copyright date,
> just changing some of 
> the titles on the cover. I have isolated discs from A550 so
> I don't know what 
> was dropped, although my guess would be Danny Boy and one
> other..I'll Be Home 
> for Christmas is recoupled with Faith of Our Fathers in
> A550. (I can't imagine 
> them dropping God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen though.)
> 
> Re takes, I forgot to mention double letters..this means
> the same take but a 
> different lacquer cut on another turntable. I'll leave
> it to others to 
> experiment with sync stereo on these.
> 
> dl
> 
> David Lennick wrote:
> > Could this get any more confusing? I have the
> "Merry Christmas" album, with a 
> > 1945 copyright date, and the catalog number is A-403.
> It has the original 1942 
> > White Christmas, 18429 plus its CANADIAN number 10065
> (these very seldom make 
> > it into discographies), and the label shows TWO album
> numbers, A-403 and A-306. 
> > (I wonder if the later recording was substituted in
> the Holiday Inn album as well?)
> > 
> > Decca takes are the letters following the numbers.
> After 1943, there may also 
> > be a letter and an initial such as T-17 which
> indicates how many lacquers have 
> > been dubbed from the original 16-inch master up to
> that point (and then 
> > followed by the A or B, sometimes even a higher
> letter).
> > 
> > dl
> > 
> > Sammy Jones wrote:
> >> I have the DLA 4374 version in a Decca 78 album
> called "Merry Christmas -
> >> Bing Crosby." Album No. A-550.  In small
> print on the bottom left of the
> >> album cover is "Copyright 1945, Decca
> Records, Inc."  If DLA 4374 was
> >> recorded in 1947, was an earlier take originally
> used in this album, or is
> >> there some other explanation for a 1945 copyright
> date for the cover art?
> >>
> >> Btw, how does one determine take numbers for
> Deccas of this vintage?
> >>
> >> Sammy
> >>
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