78 RPM - Bing Crosby - White Christmas / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Decca - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Bing Crosby
Label:	Decca
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	23778
Date:	Nov 1947
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	31 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$100
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PRICE GUIDE

$100

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bing Crosby	White Christmas	Irving Berlin	9.0 Rate
B	Bing Crosby	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	Traditional	9.0 Rate

Notes

Also used as part of a four record album No A-550
John Scott Trotter And His Orchestra

Side A: Chorus – Ken Darby Singers
(new version recorded 19 Mar 1947 - different from the original 1942 version first issued on 18429, then re-released under this cat. # in 1946)
Side B: Max Terr's Mixed Chorus

This catalogue number was first assigned Nov 1946, prior to Bing's re-recording of the A side;
the month and year of release of this configuration refer to the new version.

A (version 2): mx: WL4374 (label); WL4374T12A 5 (runout); recorded Los Angeles, CA, March 19, 1947.
B mx: DLA 3028 (label); L3028AA 5 (runout); recorded Los Angeles, CA, June 8, 1942.

Later issued on 45 RPM as 9-23778 as part of Album 9-65 in 1950

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jimbo2021 17th Dec 2023		A WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby With Ken Darby Singers And John Scott Trotter And His Orchestra 3:01 Words & music by Irving Berlin Decca Personality Series (WL 4374) (DLA 4374) Album No. A-550 8 sides---3 Vocal With Chorus And Orchestra Album No. A-550 (8 sides---3) Decca Records 23778 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recorded at Decca Studios in Hollywood, California on Wednesday, March 19, 1947



slholzer 18th Feb 2018		Sorting out this number, its album and its predecessor versions is probably too much for me right now. I will say that my database has several versions of this number, including variants with and without A/B side designations, variants with changes in fonts, and of course, album versions and non-album single versions. The album stayed in print long enough, also, to see a complete label re-design moving from the illustrated style to the more modernistic arched Decca over a star logo, divided from the rest of the label by a white bar. Perhaps I will return to this one day.... Oh, before I leave, please note that the label shown in BigBadBluesMan's video clip is a variant of the one illustrated. Note the different fonts used to print the album side number 3 and the re-arrangement of the artist credits into an inverted triangle below the title.



BigBadBluesMan 5th Apr 2015



BigBadBluesMan 5th Apr 2015



W.B.lbl 13th Dec 2012		The catalogue and matrix numbers clearly point to this being a 1947 release - has been duly noted. (The 1942 matrix # for "White Christmas" was DLA 3009, recorded 29 May 1942; the metal parts for that version became so worn after the 1946 Christmas season that it warranted this new recording that was featured on all releases thereafter {on 78, 45, LP and CD}.)

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Linked Releases

Canada - Decca - 1947