Bing Crosby - White Christmas

White Christmas by Bing Crosby, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“White Christmas” was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1942 musical Holiday Inn.
In the film, he actually sings it in a duet with Marjorie Reynolds. The song went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Bing Crosby - White Christmas Lyrics

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

(I’m dreaming of a white Christmas)
(Just like the ones I used to know)
(Where the treetops glisten)
(And children listen)
(To hear sleigh bells in the snow)

(I’m dreaming of a white Christmas)
(With every Christmas card I write)
(May your days be merry and bright)
And may all your Christmases be white

Bing Crosby - White Christmas Review

Though while Marjorie Reynolds was the actress playing Linda Mason, her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears for the movie, and in the script as originally conceived, Reynolds, not Crosby, was to sing the song.

“White Christmas” is an Irving Berlin song whose lyrics reminisce about White Christmases. The morning after he wrote the song - Berlin usually stayed up all night writing - the songwriter went to his office and told his musical secretary, “Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I’ve ever written - hell, I just wrote the best song that anybody’s ever written!”.

Berlin wrote the song in early 1940 while sitting poolside at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. The original verse pokes fun at a well-off Los Angeleno who, amid orange and palm trees, longs for traditional Christmas “up north.” Berlin later dropped the verse but kept the now-famous chorus.

“White Christmas” was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1942 musical Holiday Inn. In the film, he actually sings it in a duet with Marjorie Reynolds. The song went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Though while Marjorie Reynolds was the actress playing Linda Mason, her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears for the movie, and in the script as originally conceived, Reynolds, not Crosby, was to sing the song.

The most familiar version of “White Christmas” is not, however, the one Crosby originally recorded in 1942. He was called back to the Decca studios on March 18, 1947, to re-record “White Christmas” as a result of damage to the 1942 master due to its frequent use.[citation needed] Every effort was made to reproduce the original Decca recording session, once again backed by the Trotter Orchestra and the Darby Singers. The resulting rerecording is the one that has become most familiar to the public. Crosby himself was dismissive of the achievement, saying later that “a jackdaw with a cleft palate could have sung it successfully.”

source wikipedia.org

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 3:05 pm.