[78-L] White Christmas

[David Lennick]

That is the reason I've heard many times. The two are easy to tell apart since 
the orchestra is an octave higher at the start on one of them (I think it's the 
1942 one that's lower).

Didn't he record it a third time for the 1954 soundtrack?

dl

Bud Black wrote:
> Bing Crosby actually recorded White Christmas twice for Decca.  Once in 1942
> and again in 1947.  In the '42 version he "trills" the word "dreaming," but
> sings it straight in '47,  I seem to have read somewhere (perhaps here) that
> the reason it was re-recorded in '47 was because the original master was
> worn out.  Can anyone confirm this?
>  
> Bud  
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