Album
White Christmas / Let's Start The New Year Right
1942 · Pop, Stage & Screen
Rare pressing on Gatefold
White Christmas / Let's Start The New Year Right is a Pop album by Bing Crosby, originally released in 1942. On Gatefold: 13 pressings tracked.
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Sound DNA
- Pop
- Traditional Pop
- velvety
- nostalgic
- festive
The original 1942 recording and release of 'White Christmas', backed with 'Let's Start The New Year Right', is a black label Decca 18429 similar (the one pictured is a reissue) to what is pictured above. The original 1st version has ONLY the "Album No. A-306" (from the Holiday Inn set) on upper left part of the label (no A-403 is on the label), any issues that have A-403 in that spot are a reissue for that later set. Almost all reissues of 'White Christmas' from 1947 onwards use the re-recorded version of the song, starting with White Christmas / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, as the record stamp of the 1942 performance had worn out from repeated repressing of the holiday favorite. Still, some repressings of the 1942 recording were issued well into the 1950s. The 1947 version, despite being nearly identical to the original, has become the most familiar recording of the Irving Berlin song. Also, due to World War II the original recording wasn't widely available in Europe.
Other releases:
1947 reissue: White Christmas / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
1959 reissue: White Christmas / Silent Night
1970 reissue: White Christmas
1980 reissue: White Christmas (3-track EP)
1989 reissue: White Christmas (various B-sides)
Credits
The people behind it.
Songwriting
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 13 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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