White Christmas - Irving Berlin - performed by Joan Morris & William Bolcom

Irving Berlin's melancholy opening lines of "White Christmas" are often dropped in many recordings, but are included on what I think is a definitive recording of the song by Joan Morris and William Bolcom from the rare album "The Girl on the Magazine Cover: Songs by Irving Berlin" ---

"The sun is shining, the grass is green,
The orange and palm trees sway.
There's never been such a day
in Beverly Hills, L.A.
But it's December the twenty-fourth,—
And I am longing to be up North— "

You know the rest of the lyrics by heart ...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Joan Morris
• William Bolcom
• The Girl on the Magazine Cover
• White Christmas
• Bing Crosby
• Irving Berlin

[mulrennnan200]

i love this song

[ZeldaMarshall]

I consider myself to be very fortunate to have found this CD, "The Girl on the Magazine Cover". So many of their recordings on the RCA lable were VERY short runs! And I absolutely love their faithfulness to at least the spirit of the original versions. (There is a very interesting story about why Bolcom sneaks a fragment from Erik Satie's ballet "Parade" into one of the songs, for example. It's very clever, & very classy, as one would expect from these two.)