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0164 White Christmas

In the style originally performed by  Bing Crosby

Number 1 Billboard Hit for Bing Crosby for the weeks of October 31, 1942 through January 9, 1943

Number 1 Billboard Rhythm and Blues Hit for Bing Crosby for the weeks of December 19, 1942 through January 9, 1943

White Christmas lyrics available from Google Lyrics and AZ Lyrics

Original song version from 1942

As heard in the movie Holiday Inn

Academy Award Winning Best Song of 1942

Academy Award Nomination for Best Score of 1942

This short excerpt is in MP3 format running at 128 Kb per second.
The version on the CD album runs at 1,411 Kb per second.
The full CD audio file format size is 34,198 KB and runs for 3 minutes and 19 seconds.

I couldn't have been much more than three, maybe four, and was probably the last person on Earth that hadn't heard White Christmas. The local TV station ran "The Late Show" which was a different movie each night. This was long before the networks had "Late Shows." I was already a night owl (I still am - I'm writing this at 3:14 AM) and so I watched a different movie most nights while studying or reading. Anyway, one night, Holiday Inn was playing and I finally heard White Christmas. Bing made a second movie that featured the song, appropriately called White Christmas but it first appeared in Holiday Inn. By the way, the movie title is where the name of the Holiday Inn hotel chain came from.

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White Christmas was created using 2 Acoustic Grand Pianos, 2 Music Boxes, 3 Vibraphones, 1 Hammond Organ, 1 Acoustic Bass, 6 String Ensembles 1 (Consisting of 2 Violins, 1 Viola, and 1 Cello), and 2 Synthesized String Ensembles 1 (Consisting of 2 Violins, 1 Viola, and 1 Cello).

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Songwriter

Irving Berlin     Wikipedia

White Christmas by Bing Crosby

Song released about January 1942

Bing Crosby Official Website

Included in the album Song Hits from Holiday Inn

Recording Performers

Bing Crosby     Wikipedia

Ken Darby     Wikipedia

John Scott Trotter     Wikipedia

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