[78-L] White Christmas

[Milan P Milovanovic]

1942? Than it is probably Spike Jones on percussions there... wheeew...


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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> 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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