[78-L] Christmas B-sides

[David Lennick]

A-403, per the Decca Books, is "Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters--Merry 
Christmas", and then it says "see A-550". Same title, but 5 discs in A403 and 4 
in A550 (23281 and 23777/79). Disc numbers not shown for A403, which is odd, 
since virtually all the other album numbers in the cross index show disc 
numbers or pages where the recording dates can be found. 23778 would not have 
been in A403 since that number hadn't been reached yet, Personality numbers 
still being around 23444. So A403 packaged original numbers such as 18429 and 
other Bing and Andrews Sisters discs, and then A550 renumbered them in the 
Personality series, dropped one disc and used the remake of White Christmas. 
Rust also lists 23778 as having the 1942 recording, so maybe it's possible that 
early issues of the album did indeed use it.

dl

On 1/1/2011 11:39 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> Morgareth's Crosby discography says the original take was also on 23778, never seen one, though.  I noticed that some copies I have of 18429 reference album numbers 306 (Holiday Inn) and 403.  What was Decca album 403?
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> --- On Sat, 1/1/11, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
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> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Christmas B-sides
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 1, 2011, 12:42 PM
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> The difference is notable right at the start..strings are an octave higher in
> the remake. The original was recorded before Decca began doing all its masters
> on 33RPM lacquers so when it was worn out by 1947, a new recording was needed,
> even though there were two takes made in '42. And I have goofed..the remake is
> *23778*, not 23378.
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> dl
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> On 1/1/2011 1:33 PM, David Breneman wrote:
>> --- On Sat, 1/1/11, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>   wrote:
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>>> The remake of White Christmas is
>>> coupled with "God Rest Ye Merry" on 23378.
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>> Is this a different recording?  I'd never noticed any difference.
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