[78-L] Xmas Music

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

Thanks, David.

In the meantime, someone from the List has sent me  Take A on MP3.

BC
Le 26 déc. 08, à 02:29, David Lennick a écrit :

>
> 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
>>>>>
>
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