To be perfectly honest, I picked this record up solely because of the cover art. I didn't care what was in it, I knew I had to put it onto my Used Music collection. Turns out that I found a great track on here to share with you from a great album that I may or may not share. But at least this way you get to hear some of it. But first, this cover! It's a little like Yellow Submarine meets North Pole. It's a little bit freaky. The longer you look at it, the more stuff you see in there. I think the back cover is even more psychedelic than the front! There's a small signature in the that says Pepper, but I don't know who that is. Is this someone famous? Anyhow, the music on here is just about the exact opposite of the cover. It's a repacking by the RCA Record Club of easy-listening Christmas albums from the sixties. Lots and lots of tracks from John McCarthy, Living Strings, Bianco, and our star tonight, George Melachrino. Please download Fairy On The Christmas Tree by George Melachrino And His Orchestra from A Christmas Festival (RCA Record Club 2xLP CCS-0145). Now that I think about it, I think The King Of Jingaling shared out this track on one of his ADVENTures in Carols. But it's good enough for you to hear again, trust me!
Somebody blew up Yellow Submarine!
ReplyDeleteErnie, this looks like a really good share. I am surprised you never re-shared this 2 album set.
ReplyDeleteI have all the tracks for the second album in my collections, John McCarthy and Bianco from you, and the Living Series of albums and George Melachrino from me. I just need the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra With Brass Bands, Organ, Bells album, I think?
I think much of it's available for legit download somewhere. I just wanted that one song and I think my theme was that it had to come from a comp. This was 19 years ago at this point!
DeleteWell, I have the complete George Melachrino album and it is a good one. But I cannot locate it in my Christmas folders. The next step is to figure out how to download it again from Amazon.de. It plays, but does not show up as an album to download. Strange.
ReplyDeleteOr, check my not Christmas files that I never filed, or locate the Amazon.de Zip folders I have saved.
Well it took awhile...
DeleteI knew I had bought it from Amazon.de. It shows up in my orders from 12, 08, 2022. I paid 3.89 Euros for it, without the original artwork. It was sold by Sony the rights holder. Now you can only buy the 10.99 Euros version with the original artwork. It is also sold by Sony.
I could not find it on several back-ups. Then I remembered I have two different back-ups holding these Amazon.de Zips. The first one I found nothing. The second one I looked into and the first stand alone Zip, there it was. Great.
Oh, they have done this before. I have bought something, then because of the rights holder, or whatever, the MP3 for sale disappears as does my purchase in my library. Thank goodness, I download every purchase and keep every Zip.
I have the vinyl, does that count? Several copies I think. :)
DeleteThat counts a lot. At least you will not have Amazon take your copies away.
ReplyDeleteDo you at least have some form of MP3 of every album you own? Or only those you share?
I rip a fair amount of stuff I never share. It's not a bigger pile though, usually only a small fraction. But if I go to the trouble of playing a record, I usually digitize it just in case I want to listen again. :)
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