Irving Berlin's White Christmas and Buddy Cole. The album was reissued, combined with the 1954 Rosemary Clooney album "Red Garters," in compact disc format, by Collectables Records on June 12, 2001. Irving Berlin's White Christmas Irving Berlin's White Christmas was an LP album of songs by Rosemary Clooney from the movie "White Christmas," released by Columbia Records in 1954 (CL 6338). The album was also released as a set of four 78-rpm records at the same time. This was one of two albums of songs from the movie, neither of which qualifies as an original soundtrack recording, because Bing Crosby (who had a recording
The Christmas Waltz The Christmas Waltz "The Christmas Waltz" is a Christmas song written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne for Frank Sinatra, who recorded it in 1954 as the B-side of a new recording of "White Christmas", in 1957 for his album "A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra", and in 1968 for "The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas". Cahn recalls, "One day during a very hot spell in Los Angeles the phone rang and it was Jule Styne to say, 'Frank wants a Christmas song.'" Cahn resisted, explaining that any notion of attempting a holiday hit so closely on the