Rosemary Clooney: In Songs from the Paramount Pictures Production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Expanded Edition). CD

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Rosemary Clooney: In Songs from the Paramount Pictures Production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Expanded Edition). CDDigitally remastered and expanded edition of this holiday classic. There never was a proper soundtrack album released of Michael Curtiz's classic 1954 musical featuring Irving Berlin's immortal score because Bing Crosby was under contract with Decca and Rosemary Clooney was under contract with Columbia. Decca didn't want to promote a Columbia artist on their release so they brought in Peggy Lee for their version of the soundtrack album, and Columbia,

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