Subtitled
The Complete Decca Christmas Songbook,
Voice of Christmas features every
holiday recording
Bing Crosby made for
Decca between 1935 and 1956.
"White Christmas" is here, of course, in no less than four different versions, including a first-take attempt (with a
Crosby fluff at the end) from 1942 that, amazingly, has stayed unreleased until now. All the
Christmas tunes from the movies
Holiday Inn and
White Christmas are aboard as well (re-recorded versions with
Peggy Lee in place of
Rosemary Clooney on the
White Christmas numbers), along with all the original tracks from
Crosby's
Merry Christmas, an album that has stayed in print in one format or another since 1945! Somber takes of
"Silent Night" (three of 'em, from three different sessions),
"Adeste Fideles" (two versions from different sessions),
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and
"Ave Maria" sit snugly alongside
holiday fluff like
"Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer," "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town," "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "Here Comes Santa Claus," and seasonal favorites like
"Sleigh Ride," "Jingle Bells," "Twelve Days of Christmas" and
"The Christmas Song." The perfect Christmas music set, perhaps? ~ Cub Koda
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