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[Nick*Z]

The complete soundtracks of White Christmas and Holiday Inn are now available on Amazon:

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These comments come from the White Christmas thread but bear repeating herein as they relate to your post about the newly minted Sepia Records CD release of the 'soundtracks' to both White Christmas and Holiday Inn.

I'm going to cover the track listings here; which are original and which are alternate, or, not from the movies themselves. My comments are in brackets after each track listing. Please note, my use of the word 'original' denotes the authenticity of the track as the movie version while NOT directly derived from the film soundtrack, but otherwise taken from magnetic stereo pre-recordings that have survived.

*Please also keep in mind, Martha Mears dubbed for Marjorie Reynolds in Holiday Inn, and Trudy Stevens did the same for Vera Ellen in White Christmas. These ARE the original artists heard in the movie soundtracks.

CD 1

WHITE CHRISTMAS

1. VISTAVISION FANFARE The Paramount Studio Orchestra (original)
2. WHITE CHRISTMAS MAIN TITLE The Paramount Studio Orchestra (original)
3. SANTA CLAUS Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (a Berlin tune planned for the movie but never actually heard in it. This song was to entertain the troops in the field on the eve of their invasion. In the movie version, Crosby and Kaye merely do a buck and wing to an orchestral 'tag' of this song that, ironically, is NOT a part of this song version heard on the CD).

4. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby (original, minus the distant SFX of exploding wartime shells)
5. WE'LL FOLLOW THE OLD MAN Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (original, again without any SFX)
6. HEAT WAVE, LET ME SING AND I'M HAPPY, BLUE SKIES Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (derived from the movie soundtrack, not an original mag tape master. So, background SFX remain)
7. SISTERS Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (curiously, missing the 'montage' orchestral track that precedes it and takes us to the Floridian nightclub, Novello's, but otherwise, intact, and with an extra verse and chorus NEVER heard in the movie)
8. THE BEST THINGS HAPPEN WHILE YOU'RE DANCING Danny Kaye (unfortunately taken from the movie soundtrack, with SFX and distorted tap sounds)
9. SNOW Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (original, but with added verse and chorus, and an alternate ending to the version heard in the finished film)
10. SISTERS (Reprise) Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (this is not the Crosby/Kaye lip sync version as they foil the sheriff's incarceration of Clooney and Vera Ellen's characters, but rather the truncated 'inn' version the girl's debut on their first night as the general's floor show. Derived from the movie soundtrack with SFX heard in background)
11. I'D RATHER SEE A MINSTREL SHOW, MANDY Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney (original, minus SFX)
12. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF SHEEP Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney (original, minus SFX)
13. CHOREOGRAPHY Danny Kaye (original and the first time we get to hear Kaye's song without the horrendous distortion of its movie version incarnation. There are moments in the movie cut that truly grate on the ears. This version is in stereo and sounds magnificent)
14. THE BEST THINGS HAPPEN WHILE YOU'RE DANCING (reprise) The Skylarks (original, without SFK or background dialogue)
15. ABRAHAM Instrumental (unfortunately, the movie version, with background hiss, dialogue and distortion built-in)
16. LOVE, YOU DIDN'T DO RIGHT BY ME Rosemary Clooney (original, no SFX)
17. WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A GENERAL Bing Crosby (original, but with an added verse and chorus NEVER heard in the movie cut)
18. WE'LL FOLLOW THE OLD MAN (Reprise) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (original)
19. GEE, I WISH I WAS BACK IN THE ARMY Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (original)
20. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 1) The Paramount Studio Orchestra (this is the first half of the version heard in the movie. It ends with a truncated reprise of the song by the children's chorus, minus the orchestral tag that followed as Crosby and Kaye discuss their plans to wed the Haines' sisters and settle down. This version does not conclude with the orchestral accompaniment that continues in the film as the bay doors of the inn's stage are parted to reveal the gentle snow falling just beyond and the reprise of the song. This is an incomplete track)
21. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 2) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (an alternate version of the finale with less choral fanfare than the version heard in the movie)
22. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 3) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (strictly a track featuring the four principal players and a subtle ending NOT heard in the movie)
23. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 4) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (this is a truncated version of the tag that concludes the movie version of the song, minus the applause track and the tag that ought to have accompanied the aforementioned parting of the inn bay doors to reveal the snow falling outside. Instead, this track picks up with the reprise of the song and the finale as is heard in the movie's final edit)

(Tracks 24 through 29 are from Rosemary Clooney's re-release of a 'soundtrack' album from 1954 and have NO bearing on the movie cuts.)

24. WHITE CHRISTMAS Rosemary Clooney
25. SISTERS Rosemary, Betty Clooney
26. SNOW Rosemary Clooney
27. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF SHEEP Rosemary Clooney
28. LOVE, YOU DIDN'T DO RIGHT BY ME Rosemary Clooney
29. IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS THEATRE LOBBY ANNOUNCEMENT Bing Crosby

CD 2

HOLIDAY INN

1. HOLIDAY INN MAIN TITLE The Paramount Studio Orchestra (original)
2. I'LL CAPTURE YOUR HEART Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale (original, without applause track)
3. LAZY Bing Crosby (film version, with all the background dialogue, SFX and built-in distortions)
4. YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH Fred Astaire (original, without tap SFX or applause track)
5. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby, Martha Mears (features an orchestral tag not heard in the film, in lieu of the extended orchestral track that immediately precedes the song in the movie but is NOT heard here)
6. HAPPY HOLIDAY Bing Crosby, Martha Mears (missing the orchestral underscore used for the calendar leader and also the children's track heard over the reprise of the chorus at the end of the song)
7. LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Bing Crosby (NOT from the movie or a pre-recording session, but actually a re-recording by Crosby done the same year as the movie - disappointing!)
8. YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH Bob Crosby and his Band (original without audience SFX)
9. ABRAHAM Bing Crosby, Martha Mears (original...but, missing several key lines sung by Louise Beavers, chiefly the line, "When black folks lived in slavery, who was it set the darkie free?" considered racist under today's scrutiny. Also, missing the children's response to the song as sung to them by Beavers as their mother).
10. BE CAREFUL IT'S MY HEART Bing Crosby (derived from the movie soundtrack. Co-star, Walter Abel's prompt to Fred Astaire about discovering the girl he danced with on New Year's Eve is clearly heard under the orchestral prelude)
11. I CAN'T TELL A LIE Fred Astaire (an alternate take of the song with enough authenticity to make it sound original, but missing some of the musical interruptions Crosby stages to foil Astaire's romancing technique in the movie)
12. EASTER PARADE Bing Crosby (original, but, like the others, missing the orchestral 'calendar' tags that immediate precede the song)
13. SAY IT WITH FIRECRACKERS / SONG OF FREEDOM Bing Crosby (original without audience applause track)
14. SAY IT WITH FIRECRACKERS Bob Crosby and his Band (film version, truncated, with firecracker and tap SFX intact)
15. INSTRUMENTAL REPRISE: LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT, ABRAHAM, BE CAREFUL IT'S MY HEART, EASTER PARADE, YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH, HAPPY HOLIDAY, WHITE CHRISTMAS (missing the Thanksgiving calendar tag at the end and the dower orchestral tag that leads into Crosby having closed the inn to sulk over having lost his girl)
16. I'VE GOT PLENTY TO BE THANKFUL FOR Bing Crosby (a truncated alternate track, minus Crosby's self-deprecating comments to himself, made throughout the song in the movie, and the orchestral tag that follows in which Crosby and Louise Beavers discuss how Crosby will win the Marjorie Reynolds character back)
17. WHITE CHRISTMAS (reprise) Martha Mears (movie version with all the original baked in distortions left in)
18. CLOSING MEDLEY: I'LL CAPTURE YOUR HEART, LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Martha Mears, Virginia Dale (original, without audience SFX).

HOLIDAY INN RADIO PREVIEW: (the tracks below are all from a radio broadcast PR junket to promote the movie and represent highly truncated versions of the score with some dialogue overlap)

19. INTRODUCTION and HAPPY HOLIDAY Bing Crosby
20. I'LL CAPTURE YOUR HEART Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Betty Rhodes
21. BE CAREFUL IT'S MY HEART Bing Crosby, Betty Rhodes
22. I CAN'T TELL A LIE Fred Astaire
23. EASTER PARADE Bing Crosby
24. ABRAHAM Bing Crosby, Betty Rhodes
25. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby
26. LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Betty Rhodes, Bing Crosby
27. YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH Fred Astaire
28. SONG OF FREEDOM Bing Crosby
29. CLOSING ANNOUNCEMENT
30. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby

 

[Garysb]

In my review of Universal's last release of Holiday Inn, I specifically mention Martha Mears as Reynolds' singing voice and how wonderfully the two have been matched. Mears also ghosted for Lucille Ball in Dubarry Was a Lady, in this case a very unsatisfactory matching of voice with star.

Leave it to youtube to show the dubbing work of Martha Mears.

 

[RobertMG]

These comments come from the White Christmas thread but bear repeating herein as they relate to your post about the newly minted Sepia Records CD release of the 'soundtracks' to both White Christmas and Holiday Inn.

I'm going to cover the track listings here; which are original and which are alternate, or, not from the movies themselves. My comments are in brackets after each track listing. Please note, my use of the word 'original' denotes the authenticity of the track as the movie version while NOT directly derived from the film soundtrack, but otherwise taken from magnetic stereo pre-recordings that have survived.

*Please also keep in mind, Martha Mears dubbed for Marjorie Reynolds in Holiday Inn, and Trudy Stevens did the same for Vera Ellen in White Christmas. These ARE the original artists heard in the movie soundtracks.

CD 1

WHITE CHRISTMAS

1. VISTAVISION FANFARE The Paramount Studio Orchestra (original)
2. WHITE CHRISTMAS MAIN TITLE The Paramount Studio Orchestra (original)
3. SANTA CLAUS Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (a Berlin tune planned for the movie but never actually heard in it. This song was to entertain the troops in the field on the eve of their invasion. In the movie version, Crosby and Kaye merely do a buck and wing to an orchestral 'tag' of this song that, ironically, is NOT a part of this song version heard on the CD).

4. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby (original, minus the distant SFX of exploding wartime shells)
5. WE'LL FOLLOW THE OLD MAN Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (original, again without any SFX)
6. HEAT WAVE, LET ME SING AND I'M HAPPY, BLUE SKIES Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (derived from the movie soundtrack, not an original mag tape master. So, background SFX remain)
7. SISTERS Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (curiously, missing the 'montage' orchestral track that precedes it and takes us to the Floridian nightclub, Novello's, but otherwise, intact, and with an extra verse and chorus NEVER heard in the movie)
8. THE BEST THINGS HAPPEN WHILE YOU'RE DANCING Danny Kaye (unfortunately taken from the movie soundtrack, with SFX and distorted tap sounds)
9. SNOW Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (original, but with added verse and chorus, and an alternate ending to the version heard in the finished film)
10. SISTERS (Reprise) Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (this is not the Crosby/Kaye lip sync version as they foil the sheriff's incarceration of Clooney and Vera Ellen's characters, but rather the truncated 'inn' version the girl's debut on their first night as the general's floor show. Derived from the movie soundtrack with SFX heard in background)
11. I'D RATHER SEE A MINSTREL SHOW, MANDY Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney (original, minus SFX)
12. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF SHEEP Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney (original, minus SFX)
13. CHOREOGRAPHY Danny Kaye (original and the first time we get to hear Kaye's song without the horrendous distortion of its movie version incarnation. There are moments in the movie cut that truly grate on the ears. This version is in stereo and sounds magnificent)
14. THE BEST THINGS HAPPEN WHILE YOU'RE DANCING (reprise) The Skylarks (original, without SFK or background dialogue)
15. ABRAHAM Instrumental (unfortunately, the movie version, with background hiss, dialogue and distortion built-in)
16. LOVE, YOU DIDN'T DO RIGHT BY ME Rosemary Clooney (original, no SFX)
17. WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A GENERAL Bing Crosby (original, but with an added verse and chorus NEVER heard in the movie cut)
18. WE'LL FOLLOW THE OLD MAN (Reprise) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (original)
19. GEE, I WISH I WAS BACK IN THE ARMY Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (original)
20. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 1) The Paramount Studio Orchestra (this is the first half of the version heard in the movie. It ends with a truncated reprise of the song by the children's chorus, minus the orchestral tag that followed as Crosby and Kaye discuss their plans to wed the Haines' sisters and settle down. This version does not conclude with the orchestral accompaniment that continues in the film as the bay doors of the inn's stage are parted to reveal the gentle snow falling just beyond and the reprise of the song. This is an incomplete track)
21. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 2) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (an alternate version of the finale with less choral fanfare than the version heard in the movie)
22. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 3) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (strictly a track featuring the four principal players and a subtle ending NOT heard in the movie)
23. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 4) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (this is a truncated version of the tag that concludes the movie version of the song, minus the applause track and the tag that ought to have accompanied the aforementioned parting of the inn bay doors to reveal the snow falling outside. Instead, this track picks up with the reprise of the song and the finale as is heard in the movie's final edit)

(Tracks 24 through 29 are from Rosemary Clooney's re-release of a 'soundtrack' album from 1954 and have NO bearing on the movie cuts.)

24. WHITE CHRISTMAS Rosemary Clooney
25. SISTERS Rosemary, Betty Clooney
26. SNOW Rosemary Clooney
27. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF SHEEP Rosemary Clooney
28. LOVE, YOU DIDN'T DO RIGHT BY ME Rosemary Clooney
29. IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS THEATRE LOBBY ANNOUNCEMENT Bing Crosby

CD 2

HOLIDAY INN

1. HOLIDAY INN MAIN TITLE The Paramount Studio Orchestra (original)
2. I'LL CAPTURE YOUR HEART Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale (original, without applause track)
3. LAZY Bing Crosby (film version, with all the background dialogue, SFX and built-in distortions)
4. YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH Fred Astaire (original, without tap SFX or applause track)
5. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby, Martha Mears (features an orchestral tag not heard in the film, in lieu of the extended orchestral track that immediately precedes the song in the movie but is NOT heard here)
6. HAPPY HOLIDAY Bing Crosby, Martha Mears (missing the orchestral underscore used for the calendar leader and also the children's track heard over the reprise of the chorus at the end of the song)
7. LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Bing Crosby (NOT from the movie or a pre-recording session, but actually a re-recording by Crosby done the same year as the movie - disappointing!)
8. YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH Bob Crosby and his Band (original without audience SFX)
9. ABRAHAM Bing Crosby, Martha Mears (original...but, missing several key lines sung by Louise Beavers, chiefly the line, "When black folks lived in slavery, who was it set the darkie free?" considered racist under today's scrutiny. Also, missing the children's response to the song as sung to them by Beavers as their mother).
10. BE CAREFUL IT'S MY HEART Bing Crosby (derived from the movie soundtrack. Co-star, Walter Abel's prompt to Fred Astaire about discovering the girl he danced with on New Year's Eve is clearly heard under the orchestral prelude)
11. I CAN'T TELL A LIE Fred Astaire (an alternate take of the song with enough authenticity to make it sound original, but missing some of the musical interruptions Crosby stages to foil Astaire's romancing technique in the movie)
12. EASTER PARADE Bing Crosby (original, but, like the others, missing the orchestral 'calendar' tags that immediate precede the song)
13. SAY IT WITH FIRECRACKERS / SONG OF FREEDOM Bing Crosby (original without audience applause track)
14. SAY IT WITH FIRECRACKERS Bob Crosby and his Band (film version, truncated, with firecracker and tap SFX intact)
15. INSTRUMENTAL REPRISE: LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT, ABRAHAM, BE CAREFUL IT'S MY HEART, EASTER PARADE, YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH, HAPPY HOLIDAY, WHITE CHRISTMAS (missing the Thanksgiving calendar tag at the end and the dower orchestral tag that leads into Crosby having closed the inn to sulk over having lost his girl)
16. I'VE GOT PLENTY TO BE THANKFUL FOR Bing Crosby (a truncated alternate track, minus Crosby's self-deprecating comments to himself, made throughout the song in the movie, and the orchestral tag that follows in which Crosby and Louise Beavers discuss how Crosby will win the Marjorie Reynolds character back)
17. WHITE CHRISTMAS (reprise) Martha Mears (movie version with all the original baked in distortions left in)
18. CLOSING MEDLEY: I'LL CAPTURE YOUR HEART, LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Martha Mears, Virginia Dale (original, without audience SFX).

HOLIDAY INN RADIO PREVIEW: (the tracks below are all from a radio broadcast PR junket to promote the movie and represent highly truncated versions of the score with some dialogue overlap)

19. INTRODUCTION and HAPPY HOLIDAY Bing Crosby
20. I'LL CAPTURE YOUR HEART Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Betty Rhodes
21. BE CAREFUL IT'S MY HEART Bing Crosby, Betty Rhodes
22. I CAN'T TELL A LIE Fred Astaire
23. EASTER PARADE Bing Crosby
24. ABRAHAM Bing Crosby, Betty Rhodes
25. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby
26. LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Betty Rhodes, Bing Crosby
27. YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH Fred Astaire
28. SONG OF FREEDOM Bing Crosby
29. CLOSING ANNOUNCEMENT
30. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby

Has anyone gotten the 4k disc yet??? Thanks for posting this though!

 

[Nick*Z]

Has anyone gotten the 4k disc yet??? Thanks for posting this though!

 

[Garysb]

Has anyone gotten the 4k disc yet??? Thanks for posting this though!

Nick seems to have left out the link to his thoughts on the 4k Holiday Inn. Here is the link.

Pre-Order - Holiday Inn (1942) (4k UHD) Available for Preorder

Bonus Content: Includes 4K UHD, Blu-ray and a digital copy of Holiday Inn (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) 4x Sharper than Full HD with High Dynamic Range (HDR10) A Couple of Song and Dance Men All-Singing All-Dancing Reassessing ""Abraham"" Theatrical Trailer...

www.hometheaterforum.com

 

[Garysb]

These comments come from the White Christmas thread but bear repeating herein as they relate to your post about the newly minted Sepia Records CD release of the 'soundtracks' to both White Christmas and Holiday Inn.

I'm going to cover the track listings here; which are original and which are alternate, or, not from the movies themselves. My comments are in brackets after each track listing. Please note, my use of the word 'original' denotes the authenticity of the track as the movie version while NOT directly derived from the film soundtrack, but otherwise taken from magnetic stereo pre-recordings that have survived.

*Please also keep in mind, Martha Mears dubbed for Marjorie Reynolds in Holiday Inn, and Trudy Stevens did the same for Vera Ellen in White Christmas. These ARE the original artists heard in the movie soundtracks.
CD 1

WHITE CHRISTMAS

1. VISTAVISION FANFARE The Paramount Studio Orchestra (original)
2. WHITE CHRISTMAS MAIN TITLE The Paramount Studio Orchestra (original)
3. SANTA CLAUS Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (a Berlin tune planned for the movie but never actually heard in it. This song was to entertain the troops in the field on the eve of their invasion. In the movie version, Crosby and Kaye merely do a buck and wing to an orchestral 'tag' of this song that, ironically, is NOT a part of this song version heard on the CD).

4. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby (original, minus the distant SFX of exploding wartime shells)
5. WE'LL FOLLOW THE OLD MAN Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (original, again without any SFX)
6. HEAT WAVE, LET ME SING AND I'M HAPPY, BLUE SKIES Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (derived from the movie soundtrack, not an original mag tape master. So, background SFX remain)
7. SISTERS Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (curiously, missing the 'montage' orchestral track that precedes it and takes us to the Floridian nightclub, Novello's, but otherwise, intact, and with an extra verse and chorus NEVER heard in the movie)
8. THE BEST THINGS HAPPEN WHILE YOU'RE DANCING Danny Kaye (unfortunately taken from the movie soundtrack, with SFX and distorted tap sounds)
9. SNOW Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (original, but with added verse and chorus, and an alternate ending to the version heard in the finished film)
10. SISTERS (Reprise) Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (this is not the Crosby/Kaye lip sync version as they foil the sheriff's incarceration of Clooney and Vera Ellen's characters, but rather the truncated 'inn' version the girl's debut on their first night as the general's floor show. Derived from the movie soundtrack with SFX heard in background)
11. I'D RATHER SEE A MINSTREL SHOW, MANDY Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney (original, minus SFX)
12. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF SHEEP Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney (original, minus SFX)
13. CHOREOGRAPHY Danny Kaye (original and the first time we get to hear Kaye's song without the horrendous distortion of its movie version incarnation. There are moments in the movie cut that truly grate on the ears. This version is in stereo and sounds magnificent)
14. THE BEST THINGS HAPPEN WHILE YOU'RE DANCING (reprise) The Skylarks (original, without SFK or background dialogue)
15. ABRAHAM Instrumental (unfortunately, the movie version, with background hiss, dialogue and distortion built-in)
16. LOVE, YOU DIDN'T DO RIGHT BY ME Rosemary Clooney (original, no SFX)
17. WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A GENERAL Bing Crosby (original, but with an added verse and chorus NEVER heard in the movie cut)
18. WE'LL FOLLOW THE OLD MAN (Reprise) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye (original)
19. GEE, I WISH I WAS BACK IN THE ARMY Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (original)
20. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 1) The Paramount Studio Orchestra (this is the first half of the version heard in the movie. It ends with a truncated reprise of the song by the children's chorus, minus the orchestral tag that followed as Crosby and Kaye discuss their plans to wed the Haines' sisters and settle down. This version does not conclude with the orchestral accompaniment that continues in the film as the bay doors of the inn's stage are parted to reveal the gentle snow falling just beyond and the reprise of the song. This is an incomplete track)
21. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 2) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (an alternate version of the finale with less choral fanfare than the version heard in the movie)
22. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 3) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (strictly a track featuring the four principal players and a subtle ending NOT heard in the movie)
23. WHITE CHRISTMAS FINALE (version 4) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens (this is a truncated version of the tag that concludes the movie version of the song, minus the applause track and the tag that ought to have accompanied the aforementioned parting of the inn bay doors to reveal the snow falling outside. Instead, this track picks up with the reprise of the song and the finale as is heard in the movie's final edit)

(Tracks 24 through 29 are from Rosemary Clooney's re-release of a 'soundtrack' album from 1954 and have NO bearing on the movie cuts.)

24. WHITE CHRISTMAS Rosemary Clooney
25. SISTERS Rosemary, Betty Clooney
26. SNOW Rosemary Clooney
27. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF SHEEP Rosemary Clooney
28. LOVE, YOU DIDN'T DO RIGHT BY ME Rosemary Clooney
29. IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS THEATRE LOBBY ANNOUNCEMENT Bing Crosby

CD 2

HOLIDAY INN

1. HOLIDAY INN MAIN TITLE The Paramount Studio Orchestra (original)
2. I'LL CAPTURE YOUR HEART Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale (original, without applause track)
3. LAZY Bing Crosby (film version, with all the background dialogue, SFX and built-in distortions)
4. YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH Fred Astaire (original, without tap SFX or applause track)
5. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby, Martha Mears (features an orchestral tag not heard in the film, in lieu of the extended orchestral track that immediately precedes the song in the movie but is NOT heard here)
6. HAPPY HOLIDAY Bing Crosby, Martha Mears (missing the orchestral underscore used for the calendar leader and also the children's track heard over the reprise of the chorus at the end of the song)
7. LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Bing Crosby (NOT from the movie or a pre-recording session, but actually a re-recording by Crosby done the same year as the movie - disappointing!)
8. YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH Bob Crosby and his Band (original without audience SFX)
9. ABRAHAM Bing Crosby, Martha Mears (original...but, missing several key lines sung by Louise Beavers, chiefly the line, "When black folks lived in slavery, who was it set the darkie free?" considered racist under today's scrutiny. Also, missing the children's response to the song as sung to them by Beavers as their mother).
10. BE CAREFUL IT'S MY HEART Bing Crosby (derived from the movie soundtrack. Co-star, Walter Abel's prompt to Fred Astaire about discovering the girl he danced with on New Year's Eve is clearly heard under the orchestral prelude)
11. I CAN'T TELL A LIE Fred Astaire (an alternate take of the song with enough authenticity to make it sound original, but missing some of the musical interruptions Crosby stages to foil Astaire's romancing technique in the movie)
12. EASTER PARADE Bing Crosby (original, but, like the others, missing the orchestral 'calendar' tags that immediate precede the song)
13. SAY IT WITH FIRECRACKERS / SONG OF FREEDOM Bing Crosby (original without audience applause track)
14. SAY IT WITH FIRECRACKERS Bob Crosby and his Band (film version, truncated, with firecracker and tap SFX intact)
15. INSTRUMENTAL REPRISE: LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT, ABRAHAM, BE CAREFUL IT'S MY HEART, EASTER PARADE, YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH, HAPPY HOLIDAY, WHITE CHRISTMAS (missing the Thanksgiving calendar tag at the end and the dower orchestral tag that leads into Crosby having closed the inn to sulk over having lost his girl)
16. I'VE GOT PLENTY TO BE THANKFUL FOR Bing Crosby (a truncated alternate track, minus Crosby's self-deprecating comments to himself, made throughout the song in the movie, and the orchestral tag that follows in which Crosby and Louise Beavers discuss how Crosby will win the Marjorie Reynolds character back)
17. WHITE CHRISTMAS (reprise) Martha Mears (movie version with all the original baked in distortions left in)
18. CLOSING MEDLEY: I'LL CAPTURE YOUR HEART, LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Martha Mears, Virginia Dale (original, without audience SFX).

HOLIDAY INN RADIO PREVIEW: (the tracks below are all from a radio broadcast PR junket to promote the movie and represent highly truncated versions of the score with some dialogue overlap)

19. INTRODUCTION and HAPPY HOLIDAY Bing Crosby
20. I'LL CAPTURE YOUR HEART Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Betty Rhodes
21. BE CAREFUL IT'S MY HEART Bing Crosby, Betty Rhodes
22. I CAN'T TELL A LIE Fred Astaire
23. EASTER PARADE Bing Crosby
24. ABRAHAM Bing Crosby, Betty Rhodes
25. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby
26. LET'S START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Betty Rhodes, Bing Crosby
27. YOU'RE EASY TO DANCE WITH Fred Astaire
28. SONG OF FREEDOM Bing Crosby
29. CLOSING ANNOUNCEMENT
30. WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby

The original soundtrack to "White Christmas" as released by Decca had Peggy Lee singing Rosemary Clooney's part because Clooney was under contract to Columbia , who wouldn't allow her to appear on a Decca record. Crosby was under contract to Decca. Clooney released her own White Christmas album on Columbia , selections of which appear on the CD , So this would be the first release of "White Christmas "with both Crosby and Clooney. I assume this CD was produced in Europe and therefore all the recordings are in the public domain.
Recordings made prior to 1963 went into public domain after 50 years in Europe. Copyright protection in Europe was extended in about 2012 but that didn't protect recordings that had already fallen into public domain.

 

[RobertMG]

The original soundtrack to "White Christmas" as released by Decca had Peggy Lee singing Rosemary Clooney's part because Clooney was under contract to Columbia , who wouldn't allow her to appear on a Decca record. Crosby was under contract to Decca. Clooney released her own White Christmas album on Columbia , selections of which appear on the CD , So this would be the first release of "White Christmas "with both Crosby and Clooney. I assume this CD was produced in Europe and therefore all the recording are in the public domain.
Recordings made prior to 1963 went into public domain after 50 years in Europe. Copyright protection in Europe was extended in about 2012 but that didn't protect recordings that had already fallen into public domain.







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Is Sepia legit Interestingly UMG is re-releasing the decca White Christmas - it is a great cd features three of the voices from the film so its better than nothing

 

[Garysb]

Is Sepia legit Interestingly UMG is re-releasing the decca White Christmas - it is a great cd features three of the voices from the film so its better than nothing

Per Amazon this is being released by Universal Japan and will be available as an import in the USA.

 

[RobertMG]

Per Amazon this is being released by Universal Japan and will be available as an import in the USA.

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Last year I bought a bootleg thought it was real did not know - would not work in my cd player worked in my multi region dvd nice album --of the clooney pretend soundtrack -- this one here was selling for 60.00 last year so this is great and they claim it will release 11/11 BUT if Sepia is legit thats a great package to use the studio master tapes from the film must be legit

 

[Garysb]

Last year I bought a bootleg thought it was real did not know - would not work in my cd player worked in my multi region dvd nice album --of the clooney pretend soundtrack -- this one here was selling for 60.00 last year so this is great and they claim it will release 11/11 BUT if Sepia is legit thats a great package to use the studio master tapes from the film must be legit

Sepia is a legit company. They do sell public domain music. The only question about legit records is that the music is still protected by copyright in the US. It's not a bootleg but I assume the owners of the copyright recordings in the US could object to the Sepia CD being sold by Amazon US.

 

[RobertMG]

Sepia is a legit company. They do sell public domain music. The only question about legit records is that the music is still protected by copyright in the US. It's not a bootleg but I assume the owners of the copyright recordings in the US could object to the Sepia CD being sold by Amazon US.

Thanks --- the reviews on amazon are mostly great on this but one says it sounds processed

 

[Nick*Z]

Is Sepia legit Interestingly UMG is re-releasing the decca White Christmas - it is a great cd features three of the voices from the film so its better than nothing

The Sepia release is legit. I have it and it represents the first genuine attempt to cull together 'mostly' original pre-recordings and audio stems that were sourced directly from both White Christmas and Holiday Inn's original recording sessions - with exceptions already noted. If you want to own a fairly comprehensive effort on either of these, the Sepia CD release is ESSENTIAL!!!

 

[Matt Hough]

Per Amazon this is being released by Universal Japan and will be available as an import in the USA.

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I have the LP of it; have had it for a long, long time. Can't wait to get the REAL thing (meaning a real soundtrack recording) coming soon to my mailbox.

 

[haineshisway]

Have just 'tried' to watch Holiday Inn in 4K and have to say the results are oddly underwhelming and more than a bit of a disappointment.

For starters, the image is significantly darker than previous Blu-ray incarnations. Even the Blu-ray included in this set skews to a brighter, more balanced image that reveals fine detail throughout. On the 4K all blacks, including Crosby's one-time pin-striped suit, now just register as a dark blob of undistinguished black.

The other problem I have here is that grain gets amplified to egregious levels. Grain is a part of film. But 4K has the ability to exaggerate grain to the point where it is merely an amplification of a finite particle matter than once was pretty much, if not invisible, than most definitely accepted by the naked eye. This just looks gritty rather than 'grain rich'.

Finally, I'm not entirely certain who the featurette, Reassessing Abraham, is trying to appease. It's a truncated featurette with mere snippets and sound bites from four historians who view the film's black face from decidedly different perspectives. But the featurette doesn't even begin to scratch the surface in any way for a meaningful analysis. Rather, all four perspectives get put forward briefly and then the image merely cuts to black (no pun intended).

Finally, the feature is NOW preceded by a vintage Universal logo (Alexander Golitzen's art deco glass globe and rotating stars) before the Paramount logo follows it. Let's be clear. Universal inherited much of the pre-50's Paramount library in a lock, stock and outright MCA purchase of their vintage films during the late 70's. They had absolutely NOTHING to do with the making, marketing or distribution of Holiday Inn.

So, a Uni logo before the Paramount one is just plain wrong. Uni did the same thing on the Blu release of Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and One-Eyed Jacks. Even more insulting on both these release, they actually replaced the original Paramount and VistaVision preamble with the Uni globe logo instead. They also cut the MGM logo off their recent Blu of State of the Union. Their old DVD release contained the MGM logo.

But back to Holiday Inn in 4K. It looks dark, gritty and rather unattractive throughout, especially when compared to the standard Blu-ray image, which actually gives a somewhat more refined presentation on the whole with subtler shadow delineation and far more detail available in the black portions of the image. So, we get to see, say, lapels on suits and the various textures of fabrics on the Blu while the 4K reduces all of these dark colors to mere, homogenized black with zero detail. NOT loving this presentation at all!

Of course the grain is unwieldy - there isn't 4K of information on the negative.

 

[RobertMG]

Of course the grain is unwieldy - there isn't 4K of information on the negative.

EMKA was formed to buy the films in 1949 they paid 50 million!

 

[RobertMG]

Of course the grain is unwieldy - there isn't 4K of information on the negative.

Why do some in 4K look great others not so???

 

[haineshisway]

I'm not sure I've seen a 4K of an older black and white film that looks any better than a great Blu-ray. Friends keep showing me this stuff and I've clearly seen no reason to start getting them. I may, this coming year, get a handful of things - like Vertigo and some large format films.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I'm not sure I've seen a 4K of an older black and white film that looks any better than a great Blu-ray. Friends keep showing me this stuff and I've clearly seen no reason to start getting them. I may, this coming year, get a handful of things - like Vertigo and some large format films.

I guess you haven't seen Citizen Kane or Anatomy of a Murder just to name a few 4K titles?

 

[haineshisway]

I guess you haven't seen Citizen Kane or Anatomy of a Murder just to name a few 4K titles?

Correct, I have not. But I really can't imagine Anatomy, which uses the same transfer, I'm sure, looks better than the superb Blu-ray. I do love the film, though.

 

[Keith Cobby]

You've taken one for the team Nick! Although I'm a big fan of the format, some films just aren't worth releasing in 4k, will stick with the blu ray, thanks. Obviously White Christmas is a different prospect.