Monday, December 25, 2017

No White Christmas

Here's another single for you, something a little out of the ordinary, a little newer than the usual share around here, but something I think you'll enjoy nonetheless.  I saw this single shared out at another blog, and realized that I had seen it somewhere recently.  Turned out it was in the stack of random stuff I had bought at Banana's recently, but hadn't listened to it yet.  It just happens to be a very early synth record, one of the very first Christmas records I've ever heard that sounds like this.  Just download it, you'll see.  We didn't get a White Christmas today here in Central Florida, but you get one from me.  This is Camille-White Christmas b/w Snowbelle (EMI 7" 45 RPM EMI 5014, Produced For Camille By Karl Jenkins, Mike Ratledge And Mike Thorne, Stereo, 1979).  If anybody knows anything about this single, please share, it's a bit of a mystery.

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8 comments:

  1. Thank you Ernie. One I'd never heard of before. Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas.

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  2. Merry Christmas! I hope your day was filled with cheer.

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  3. Ernie, I can shed no light on the record itself. But producer Karl Jenkins plays woodwinds and keys, and was (for a time) a member of jazz-rock group Soft Machine. Mike Ratledge is a keyboard wizard, and was a founding member of Soft Machine. Mike Thorne is mainly a producer who has worked with Roger Daltrey, John Cale, Bronski Beat, Soft Cell, Nina Hagen, Laurie Anderson, and Soft Machine.

    Here's a clip featuring Ratledge and Jenkins; can't imagine why they were brought in to produce those popcorn tracks.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5AdkYRm344

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  4. I hope your Christmas was a great one and have a Happy New Year. Thanks so much for all the music. Your Christmas in July was really extraordinary.

    All The Best,

    Rick R.

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  5. Happy Boxing Day, from the Great White North!

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  6. 2018 re-up:

    https://mega.nz/#!RccgSY7A!SPkKP-u0mbhXI_bCBoWhCO1Yb86LR8xKQ_yqoNtZY9U

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  7. Thank you Ernie, both for making this available and for the updated link. I don't remember hearing this one on the radio back in Xmas'79. But I do remember the synth version of 'Puttin on the Ritz' that came out a few years later.

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