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

[Bud Black]

The big difference is this; on Bing's earlier (1942) recording he "trills"
the word "dreaming," a little vocal artistry that he omitted on the 1947
re-make. 

(I know....I know!  The "trill" is gone!)

Bud
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: David Lennick
Date: 12/27/2008 12:19:07 AM
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] Correction - First take of White Christmas
 
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
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