Christmas In July 2018-Day 14
Day 14, in which all the posts are stereo because I forgot that I had my playlist sorted by bitrate and didn't scroll down to the mono part of the list... Such are the pitfalls of this profession, children.
1. Cherry Tree Carol, by The Mitchell Trio-Solo By Mike Kobluk, making it's stereo debut in these parts, from the LP Typical American Boys (Mercury SR 60992, Stereo, 1965). There's lots of very political stuff on this album, but not so much on this track.
2. Christmas Day by The Placentia Presbyterian Chancel Choir-Directed By Kris Brundin, Tenor Solo By John Press, from Christmas Chimes 'N Other Times (Monarch Records DBP-226, Stereo, 1977). Nice medley here.
3. Greensleeves by Strings Unlimited from Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head/Bridge Over Troubled Water (Oscar Records OS-109 (Reissue of old material by 101 Strings from Alshire label), Stereo, 1972). Budget material, reissued to rip more people off.
4. Listen, Shepherds, Listen! by The Winnipeg Mennonite Children's Choir-Helen Litz, Director, from the LP Singing The Seasons Of The Lord (Choristers Guild DSC-1, Stereo, 1979). Got a lot of these choral groups this year. Nice, but they run together sometimes...
5. Little Toy Store by Julie Budd, Produced, Arranged & Conducted By Herb Bernstein, from her debut LP Child Of Plenty (MGM SE-4545, Stereo, 1968). Not really a Christmas song (are any of my shares really Christmas songs? Well, maybe a couple...) but I was suckered in by the word toy in the title.
6. Medley From The Sound Of Music by De Wayne Fulton from An Evening With De Wayne Fulton, Harpist, Vol. 1 aka An Evening At The Warehouse (Safari Record SS-1001, Stereo). You can't tell with the cover in front of you, or maybe listening to it, but it's on the harp! I didn't listen too closely but I assume it's got to have My Favorite Things in there somewhere, right?
7. Our Winter Love by Clebanoff And His Orchestra from Today's Best Hits (Mercury SR 60791, Stereo, 1963). Is this today's best hit? Maybe, you tell me.
8. Silver Bells by Willie Dittrich from the Christmas half of his LP The Singing Zither-Christmas Music & Old Time Hymns (Jim Loyd Presents 1002 (WMT Radio, Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Stereo). Another song that really isn't about Christmas, but at least most folks think it is. It's from a Bob Hope movie people. Bob Hope!
9. We Three Kings Of Orient Are by Brass Of The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Conducted By Alfred Newman, from Hallelujah! (Capitol SP8529, Stereo, 1960). Now this may be the best track of the day!
10. Danses Caracteristiques: March; Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy; Russian Dance (Trepak); Arabian Dance; Chinese Dance; Dance Of The Reed Pipes, all of it in one go by Leonard Bernstein Conducting The New York Philharmonic from Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf, Op. 67/Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71A (Columbia Masterworks MS 6193, Stereo, 1961). Since you only get one Nutcracker song today, I figured it should be a really long one. You're welcome.
There you go, ten more songs. Ten songs a day for the whole month is what, 310 tracks? Yeah, I should be able to do that. Those two medley's in there make this the longest share of the year so far, how about that!
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no “favorite things” in fulton’s medley. but he does play “edelweiss” and that mentions snow. so there you are. funny. john coltrane heard “my favorite things” and thought “jazz”. ernie hears “my favorite things” and thinks “christmas”. me, i hear it and think “white kids and nuns”. takes all kinds, i guess. and speaking of all kinds, i’m sure that ernie would like to see all kinds of brief comments here instead of another hefty dose of my kind of poison. i didn’t mean to become the gorilla in the comment room. (ask me the time, and i’ll tell you how to make a watch.) i’ll lighten up a bit and leave room for the rest of you.
ReplyDelete10 songs a day for the month of july. i believe that would be about 520 tracks.
OK, explain how Silver Bells isn't really a Christmas song. "It's Christmas time in the city." "Soon it will be Christmas day." "In the air there's a feeling of Christmas."
ReplyDeleteAlshire had a reissue label? Wasn't once enough?
Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWhether sung with the original "Santa's big day," or the revised "Santa's big scene" lyric, I can't think of any time but Christmas for Silver Bells, renamed from it's original working title of "Tinkle Bells." Since "tinkle" is another word for taking a piss, one of the songwriters' wives encouraged the name and lyric change. Thank God.
ReplyDeleteA great selection tonight. Love any Mitchell Trio, whether with Chad, or his then little known replacement, an up and coming songwriter/singer named John Denver. My favorite Christmas performance from the trio is "The Virgin Mary," with Chad on lead vocals, on the Reflecting lp. I always thought Chad Mitchell had a fabulous voice.