Event Recap Chat with Duke Allen about Christmas Flipsides and Flops

[Jeff Westover]

That Elvis album though...

 

[Jeff Westover]

what a seller

 

[e_xander]

One year off for you @Jeff Westover

 

[MerryCarey]

"Safe from rock"...

 

[Jeff Westover]

Even with what he did to White Christmas

 

[Jeff Westover]

Irving Berlin was NOT a happy camper

 

[SBellsRikki]

well I was off.. I was thinking it might have been ROckin Around the Xmas Tree

 

[Jeff Westover]

I couldn't remember which year Elvis dropped that album

 

[MerryCarey]

I've also read that the Irving Berlin story re: Elvis' "White Christmas was a myth.

 

[Jeff Westover]

Where did you read that?

 

[Jeff Westover]

In my house growing up my Mom was Elvis and my Dad was Pat Boone

 

[MerryCarey]

*blush* Somewhere on the Internet.

 

[e_xander]

Rockin' Around was considered more contemporary at the time, I do believe @SBellsRikki

 

[Duke Allen]

I say "safe from rock," because Decca’s 1957 holiday slate included Bing Crosby, Fred Waring, Guy Lombardo. Judy Garland, and the Four Aces. All traditional, safe musical acts that wouldn’t make a mockery of Christmas. One rocker who made some noise in ’57 was Clyde McPhatter, and that wasn’t even a new record – Atlantic reissued “White Christmas,” which he had recorded with the Drifters in 1954, to compete with the Elvis version.

 

[Jeff Westover]

The story...or legend...of the Irving Berlin White Christmas thing was more of a radio story than anything to do with the song

 

[MerryCarey]

@Jeff Westover Here's where I read the debunk (thank you, Google): https://silentmovieblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/elvis-presley-irving-berlin-and-white-christmas/

 

[Jeff Westover]

You know how those radio people like to make things up

 

[Jeff Westover]

Thanks @MerryCarey -- I'll check it out!

 

[e_xander]

Anything to entertain the listener!

 

[SBellsRikki]

hey now...