Is your copy from 1942 or 1947?
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I have the CD and the original 78 rpm record album (but without the album book).
Have on brunswick on 78.new year song on b side.
"White Christmas" was featured in TWO movies, but I wasn't sure which one came first. I love both of them. Anyway, 'Holiday Inn' is still my favorite movie, but the other one, 'White Christmas' featured Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, and seemed to follow the actual lyrics of "White Christmas" a little more closely. Both are very enjoyable in their own right.
"White Christmas" was originally introduced in "Holiday Inn" (1942).
We had a black label 45 that had 4 of the songs on it: White Christmas, Jingle Bells, Adeste Fideles and one other, maybe God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
I've come across two, Count them Two, 10" 33 rpm white Christmas records and the vinyl was unlistenable. I can't wait till I find a 10" in listening shape.
Complete Bing Crosby Decca Christmas songs are on a 2CD set, The Voice of Christmas, but Bing had Christmas music on several labels, Capitol, Reprise, Kapp, as well as Decca.
When Bing's exclusive contract with Decca finally expired at the end of 1955, he freelanced and recorded for other labels, making the best deals to his advantage (of course, Frank Sinatra was more than happy to have him record a few albums for Reprise in the early 1960's).
That 1942 movie is the most interesting one of all. It has several Irving Berlin songs like, Be careful, It's my Heart and Easter Parade just to mention two! I didn't know that it was rerecorded in 1947!
My 78rpm copy is on Brunswick 03384 -B. It says with the Ken Darby singers and Accompanied by John Scott Trotter and his orchestra. The A side is Lets start the New Year. Right. Bob Crosby and his orchestra. It is a UK pressing Matrix DLA 3009 B. Stewart Yorkshire England
That's an original British release (initially featured in the American Decca "Hoilday Inn" album set).
On the cassette cover, Bing Crosby looks kind of like Alfred E Neuman from MAD Magazine.
I have 2 copies of the 1942 Album!
Man alive, that 8 Track player at 4:00 is beyond awesome!
I'm listening to my "Merry Christmas" CD that I bought in 1997 on this early Sunday morning. My parents had the 1960's Decca version when I was growing up.
The best version of White Christmas by Bing is from the movie Holiday Inn even when he re-recorded White Christmas which is still good but it doesn't beat the Holiday Inn version.
I have a Dutch vinyl copy of White Christmas album, made in Holland in 1968 on the Brunswick label DZY 377 007 golden aces series , This album was bought by my father and mother in 1968 in the record store Hakkert in Schiedam Netherlands.
Merry Christmas to you and yours Record-ology dude. 🎅👍
$12? Dude!!!
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@@Recordology I thought about you at the Antique Mall the other day. They had some Glenn Miller EP 45s for $.48 a piece. Of course they had GH LPs, but they were fake stereo.
4:23- The original "Merry Christmas" 78 album set was released in 1945, then offered as a 10 inch LP in 1949, and a "45" box set in 1950 (during the "War of the Speeds" period, Decca was taking no chances by offering that album in all three formats).
I have Merry Christmas and mono and in stereo both are 60s pressings. I also have Merry Christmas on cassette on the MCA label.
I have the Decca 78 Rpm album, merry Christmas
I have the 1942 78rpm version!
Complete series! Could you please talk about the one sided 78rpm records! I have one recording from 1929, of the first song "Some Body Loves Me". If you look for the song there is no record of the Artist at that point in time! I will not reveal her name until I receive some feedback 🤔
Good luck and Thanks!
My guesses are Ethel Waters or Annete Hanshaw.
@@Recordology no but a good guess! Could you cover the 1 sided 78rpm 🤔
Mine is on Walmart exclusive "white" vinyl. It is the standard "Merry Christmas" LP with a black Decca label. I found it back in June on clearance for $10 so decided to grab it. Have it on CD as well and I think the CD is the same one you have.
Be careful handling those 78s. I've seen one break just looking at it
Shellac is *VERY* fragile- especially in recordings that were produced up to a century ago.
I have 2 copies of this Bing Crosby Christmas album on vinyl and I think that the one is possibly an original pressing
I knew about White Christmas wearing out and the re-recording, but had never heard the history of White Christmas / Merry Christmas!! VERY interesting; thank you so much for sharing this! (I wonder what if any cleanup has been done to the master(s) as we've moved from 78 to LP to CD, and if they can today be improved any further?)
I would imagine the 1942 and 1947 "White Christmas" 78's would have different matrix numbers. Since the original stampers got worn out, I would imagine the 1942 78 RPM B side would have to been re-recorded as well???
Yes, there were two different "take numbers": LA-3009 {May 29, 1942}, and DLA/WL-4374 {March 19, 1947}.
However, the original 1942 release (on the "Holiday Inn" album set- 18429) featured "Let's Start the New Year Right" [May 25, 1942] as the "B" side. On the "White Christmas" set (23778), the "B" side was "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" [June 8, 1942].
So, fair to assume your 78 is the 1947 version?
Yes!
That history behind the song and its record production is fascinating, would love to hear more interesting record history stories like this.
In a one horse open sleigh (boodle oodle oodle hey yep). Ah, the Andrews Sisters...
I have this in several versions myself including a couple 78 box sets, a couple Decca 12" and a sealed 80s re press.
Nice assortment! Looks like the 78 version doesn't have the Hawaiian song.
I have the “Merry Christmas” CD, too. We had a Bing Crosby cassette called “Christmas Favorites” when I was growing up that had some of the same tracks.
I bought the 45 picture sleeve on MCA it was released in about 1973 the record you showed was in the wrong sleeve also I have both versions the 42 and the 47 on cd the 42 version sounds scratchy
3:05 I have a few copies of that Bing Crosby 'Merry Christmas' album with two by Decca including one record having that original black Decca label and the other one having the later Decca rainbow label, while also having an MCA release of the album with an MCA rainbow design. :)
What a great collection. That is my favorite Christmas album. I own that black decca one. I also have a 10 inch I found. Not the 78
That was the 1949 LP reissue of the original 1945 "78" album set.
4:05 Cool! I have that same or similar white globe 8-track player. My is made by Fleetwood, but there were others made by Weltron and they have that great Space Age '2001: A Space Odyssey' look to them. :)
White Christmas is still the best selling single of all time. It came out in the 40s on 78 so the exact numbers aren’t public, but what I read is that there was a confirmed 50 million copies sold
Ich besitze leider nur die CD!
Was the cassette copy you showed a bootleg copy like happened with albums in the 70's? That has to be the worst cover!
Incidentally, Bing's picture on the 1955 "Merry Christmas" LP was originally featured in a 1950 Chesterfield magazine ad [they sponsored him on radio at the time], with similar pictures of Arthur Godfrey, Perry Como and Bob Hope (all of them were sponsored by Chesterfield as well).
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FASCINATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!