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The 10 Best Versions of ‘White Christmas’
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Composed by Irving Berlin in 1941 and recorded by Crosby in an 18-minute session, “White Christmas” was part of a broader trend in the so-called golden era of songwriting, when prosaic topics were treated perspicuously and rendered into plainly expressed refrains. As part of the six Christmas records Armstrong made for Decca in the 1950s, his cover here is a relatively low-key affair, creating a warm sustained mood rather than relying on great hefts of horns and emotion. With a choir and orchestra arranged by Axel Stordahl, the strings swell to heart-leaping proportions, while Sinatra keeps things sedate and sanguine with an undramatic vocal, which drips with a warm camaraderie.
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