[78-L] Correction - First take of White Christmas

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>> Accidentally discovered some years back that I owned two TOTALLY 
>>> different
>>> versions of "White Christmas!" Realized that the tune had been remade 
>>> after
>>> the
>>> huge sales wore out the original master/stampers!
>>>
>>> Finding the first version requires looking CAREFULLY at millions of Decca
>>> 78's of the tune, comparing matrix numbers!
>> Not really..the second version will always be on the Personality label as 
>> 23778
>> or possibly a Gold Standard (or equivalent) reissue..the first one 
>> appeared
>> only as 18429 or Canadian 10065, even when repackaged in the first "Merry
>> Christmas" album.
>>
> Yup...BUT...18429/10065 appears with BOTH takes of the tune thereon!!
> 
Okay, that I did not know. I wonder if this occurs only on Canadian pressings 
or in the US as well?
> Since the record was selling as fast as they could be stamped, Decca didn't
> bother with differentiating between versions...!
> 
> I would guess that buyers of the disc occasionally compared notes, and
> figured out there were TWO different versions of the song sold to the
> hapless public...?!
> 
> ...stevenc