Contemporary singer Michael Buble, with some tech magic, sings White Christmas with Bing Crosby on Crosby’s 1971 Xmas special (this ran on Buble’s Christmas special. He does some excellent renditions of Sinatra classic, using orchestration close to or matching the originals in his own easy style). I love this (from Buble’s Christmas special):
The Canadian born Buble has a lot of CDs which contain songs from the traditional American songbook, plus some more contemporary ones. Here’s just one:
Reposted from Christmas 2014.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.