V.A: WHITE CRISTMAS´ SOUNDTRACK

WHITE CHRISTMAS
Este é um dos melhores filmes sobre o Natal, de todos os tempos. O enredo, como não poderia deixar de ser, é uma daquelas bobagens, destinadas tão somente a servir de "link" para as grandes canções de Irving Berlin. Além de "White Christmas" - quase um "hino oficial do Natal" nos USA, na trilha tem outras grandes canções, como "The best Things happen while you´re dancing", "Count your blessings instead of ships" , etc.
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WHITE CHRISTMAS
Irving Berlin may have been the best songwriter of the 20th century; he was certainly the best song publisher. Running his own company and promoting his own copyrights, Berlin was an expert at exploitation, finding new ways to sell old songs. One of his best ideas was to come up with, package, and sell to a studio a new movie musical that would feature both newly written material and some of his evergreens. Examples include Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) and Blue Skies (1946), but Berlin really worked his recycling magic to perfection in 1954, when he managed to get into movie theaters both White Christmas and There's No Business Like Show Business within months of each other, the former in October, the latter in December. White Christmas was a sort of rough sequel to an earlier Berlin film that had employed all-new songs, Holiday Inn (1942). In that picture, Bing Crosby had played a song-and-dance man who runs a New England hotel open only on holidays; Fred Astaire was his sometime partner and rival in romantic matters. Of course, the major hit from the film was "White Christmas." Originally, White Christmas the movie was intended to re-pair Crosby and Astaire as a couple of song-and-dance men who were also World War II veterans in a plot that found them rescuing the fortunes of a New England hotel run by their old general while also wooing two sisters who had their own musical act (an act strongly reminiscent of the disbanded Clooney Sisters, with still-active Rosemary Clooney playing one sister and Vera-Ellen the other). By the time of production, Astaire had been replaced by Donald O'Connor, who had been replaced by Danny Kaye. The result was an enormous hit: White Christmas was by far the highest grossing movie released in 1954, and a Decca Records album featuring Crosby, Kaye, and Peggy Lee (standing in for Clooney, who was exclusively contracted to Columbia Records) hit number two in the charts, with the new songs "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep," "Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me," and "Sisters" gaining the greatest renown among the new Berlin compositions in a score filled out with such oldies-but-goodies as "Blue Skies," "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy," and, inevitably, "White Christmas."
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MINHA OPINIÃO
Se você não assistiu ao filme, deveria faze-lo (está disponível para "download" grátis, neste site aqui, ó:   http://www.allmovia.com/mov/white_christmas/ ).  Além do fantástico "score" musical, tem números de dança formidáveis, protagonizados por um elenco estelar. E é uma rara oportunidade de ver Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye e Rosemary Clooney atuando, cantando e dançando juntos. OURO EM PÓ!
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V.A: WHITE CRISTMAS´ SOUNDTRACK

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
Abraham Number
Choreography
Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep
Finale White Christmas
Gee I wish I was back to the army
Love you didn´t do right by me
Medley: The old man, Heat Wave, Let me sing, I´m happy
Mandy
Overture
Sisters
Snow
The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing
The old man
What Can You Do With A General?
White Christmas