Christmas In July-Part 1

It's the second day of July, and I'm finally ready to kick off my little Christmas In July celebration here at Ernie (Not Bert). I meant to do this yesterday, but I made an impromptu trip to the east coast to watch the shuttle launch, which it didn't, so I spent $50 in vain for gas. But that's all beside the point. The point is that for the month of July, I want to share a bunch of Christmas music with you. This is going to be a little different from what I did back in December, though. I've got a whole stack of tracks here from non-seasonal LPs that struck me as being Christmassy, or actual seasonal tracks that for whatever reason got stuck on a regular LP. My scanner is on the fritz, so most of the posts are going to be without the covers, but I think you'll live. The first share today is two tracks by Leroy Holmes from the soundtrack to The Devil's Brigade from 1968. These are the bona-fide Christmas tunes Good King Wenceslas and Joy To The World. Please download them and enjoy. By the end of the month, you should have a pretty nice collection of tunes to play when December rolls around. The RCA Victor tag I posted above is from The Sound Of Children At Christmas by Hugo & Luigi With Their Children's Chorus (RCA Victor LSP-2254, 1960). I used to post lots of these little tags, but I haven't done so in a while. I give you this one now to wish you a Merry Christmas, and also as the first time I've seen them duplicate a message in their tag. If you go visit 317X, you'll see that there is another tag that says Merry Christmas. I wish I had that LP...