Stereo Randolph!

Here's a record I was very excited to find sometime in the past couple of years!  Long time visitors to the blog might remember my shares of the two Christmas albums from The Randolph Singers, and I think one single, but they were all in mono.  The catalog is a little unclear, so I don't have dates on everything, but apparently, at one time or another, they remade their first LP in Stereo! I didn't do an A/B test, but the times on the different tracks lead me to believe it is different, and was re-recorded sometime later.  (The track sequence has changed as well.)  Earliest mention of a stereo version I can find is in a 1959 Hi-Fi/Stereo Review from December of that year.  So maybe that's the date.  But trust me, if you liked the mono, you're going to love the stereo!  This is The Randolph Singers-Christmas Carols (Westminster WST 15052, Stereo, 1959?).

1. Carol Of The Bells
2. Patapan
3. What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)
4. Let Carols Ring
5. Hush, O Heaven
6. Quickly, My Friends
7. Saint Staffan
8. Lullay My Liking
9. The First Noel
10. Silent Night
11. Oh Come, All Ye Faithful
12. Angels We Have Heard On High
13. Quid Petis, O Fili?
14. Shepherds, Tell Me
15. Bring A Torch, Jeanette
16. Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming
17. Virgin's Cradle Hymn
18. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
19. O Little Town Of Bethlehem

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The old (mono) cover is shown below, and I'm pretty sure I have a third one somewhere, but it's eluding me at the moment.