Merry Christmas was also issued as a 45 rpm box set in 1950, catalogue Decca 9-65. Copies released after 1951 featured a newly designed red and green cover. This was the same cover design that had been used on all issues of the 78-rpm album. The original 78-rpm album cover (seen above) had a light blue background and showed a large black and white photograph of Crosby's head. Decca reissued the eight song Merry Christmas album in the form of a 10-inch LP in 1949, catalogue Decca DL-5019 with its standard brown label. After the original cast recording to Oklahoma!, also from Decca Records, released in 1943, the 1955 album configuration has been continually in-print longer than any other album in the history of the United States.Īfter the introduction of the LP by Columbia Records in 1948, its competitors in the music industry began switching over to the new format. The Andrews Sisters, often Crosby's recording partners in the 1940s, are featured on the tracks " Jingle Bells", " Mele Kalikimaka", and " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town". The 1955 vinyl LP configuration is the one extant to date, consisting of the entirety of Decca A-550 plus four additional tracks. The original recording of "White Christmas" to this date, has never been stamped on LP records or 45 rpm singles, but has appeared in a few holiday compilation albums on CD. Decca and Crosby undertook the remake with the same orchestra and chorus, in an attempt to re-create the original May 1942 recording as closely as possible. This recording of "White Christmas", heard on every subsequent pressing, is actually a re-recording of the song as, in an unprecedented occurrence, the 1942 master had actually worn out and was no longer usable. ![]() The 78-rpm album quickly reached the top of the Billboard Best-selling popular record albums chart in 1945 and remained there for several weeks.ĭecca issued a second edition in this format in 1947, catalogue Decca A-550, consisting of four 78s, omitting recordings of "Danny Boy" and "Let's Start the New Year Right" from the previous release, and including new recordings of "White Christmas" and " Silent Night" from March 19, 1947. Prior to the long-playing album era, such assemblies were not uncommon for popular music, Merry Christmas instigated by the enormous popularity of the "White Christmas" record. ![]() Each one had a holiday theme with the exception of " Danny Boy", paired with " I'll Be Home for Christmas" on its original record. The original album consisted of ten songs on five 78 records, all of which had been previously released. The original 1945 release and subsequent re-releases and re-packages spent a total of 39 weeks at no. The album was certified 4× Platinum by RIAA for selling over 4 million copies in United States. It includes Crosby's signature song " White Christmas", the best-selling single of all time with estimated sales of over 50 million copies worldwide. It has remained in print through the vinyl, CD, and downloadable file eras, currently as the disc and digital album White Christmas on MCA Records, a part of the Universal Music Group, (reissued in June 1995) and currently on vinyl as Merry Christmas on Geffen Records (re-issued in September 2014). Merry Christmas is a compilation album by Bing Crosby that was released in 1945 on Decca Records.
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