1944 HITS ARCHIVE: White Christmas - Frank Sinatra (his original Columbia version)

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White Christmas (Irving Berlin) by Frank Sinatra, orchestra and chorus conducted by Axel Stordahl

Ending more than two years of crippled record production, Columbia settled with the striking musicians’ union on November 11th, allowing them finally to produce their own fully-orchestrated recording of the decade’s holiday sensation “White Christmas,” introduced by Bing two years earlier. Sinatra’s new recording reached top-10 on the best-sellers chart by Christmas and would become part of the annual holiday season radio playlist for years to come. In 1954 he recorded an updated version with Nelson Riddle over at Capitol Records.

THE 1944 HITS ARCHIVE - a collection of commercial recordings and songs that proved popular during the calendar year 1944 via sales, sheet music, juke box play, and radio exposure.…plus some others that have gained increased recognition or have been shown to have had an impact during the decades that followed. You’ll note that due to the long-running ‘recording ban’ (musician’s union strike against the record companies), quite a number of this year’s best-sellers were recordings made back in 1942 or earlier. .
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