Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas is an album with songs from the 1954 movie, "White Christmas". Among the featured artists are Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Trudy Stevens (who dubbed for Vera-Ellen in the movie), with Peggy Lee, who was not in the movie, singing some parts. It is one of the last 78 rpm albums Decca produced. An original soundtrack recording has never been released. This was because Crosby had a recording contract with Decca Records and Rosemary Clooney was signed with Columbia Records and contractually could not record together. This album
Songs for the Season Simon-MacWilliams, to produce the album. A breakaway from the adult contemporary pop sound on her previous album, the trio formulated the sound of "Songs for the Season" by using a microphone from the 1950s and recording all the strings together instead of double-tracking single recordings. While some of the songs remained close to the original versions, others were arranged more freely; Michaelson stated: "On Christmas covers you want something that is familiar that reminds you of past Christmases and holidays, and so I didn’t really want to reinvent the wheel". Primarily a compilation of cover versions of Christmas standards and