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Back in 2007, someone asked me if I had any Christmas music from Bob Kames. I didn't, but the name stuck with me, and by the next year, I had a lot of Christmas music by Bob Kames. Pretty much all of it is organ music, and some of it is pretty interesting. Taken as a whole, it's a very interesting body of work, and over the next few hours, I'm going to share it all back out with you. My first share of his from 2008 was also, as near as I can tell, his first Christmas alum, but far from his last. This is Bob Kames-Organ And Chimes-15 Songs Of Christmas (King 679, Stereo, 1959).
1. Silent Night
2. The First Noel
3. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
4. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
5. Joy To The World
6. O Come All Ye Faithful
7. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
8. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
9. The Chipmunk Song
10. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
11. White Christmas
12. Jingle Bells
13. Silver Bells
14. Winter Wonderland
15. On Christmas Eve
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Records like this are really neat to hear and the organ play on this one makes me feel like I am at a baseball game ha. I also find the artwork for each very interesting and always wonder what the decision making process was for selecting them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing all of these unique records with us year after year! This music is so much better than the same old commercial crap on the radio.
So good. These songs are like gold to me. The best Christmas comfort music for a child of the 50's and 60's IMHO. Thanks again, Ernie.
ReplyDeleteJoe - As far as I can tell, the decision making process at King was to choose the gaudiest covers possible. Have you seen their James Brown covers? E.g.:
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I can't help but think that was James Brown's personal choice... :)
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteFound one, hurray...
ReplyDeleteHe's out there. Sometimes slow and languid, sometimes speedy like a fox.
DeleteWow. So I started listening to this, and back in Mass I was. Then just about halfway through it, boy, what a surprise. I loved it..."loved" it.
ReplyDeleteHis version of "The Chipmunk Song" was by far the best version I have ever heard. Those Chipmunks can really get on your nerves.
He's full of surprises. :)
DeleteSurprises is right.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if this was his first album or not, "High Life In Hi-Fi", but later released as the more appropriately titled, "In a German Beer Garden". And away we go, Polka anyone, with the beer and all the good things you enjoy in a German Beer Garden.
Boy, he was quite famous, it seems, at least in a way. Recorded approximately 80 albums, I guess, to sell in his Music store.
DeleteHis Christmas Specials were an annual event for at least 20 years. You can see one on YouTube, which is something else. I prefer to listen to his records.
I do see a lot of his records in the thrift store stacks, but I wouldn't have guessed 80 of them. Though if he had four Christmas albums, I wouldn't be surprised if he had 20 times that in normal records. Seems like a good ratio. :)
DeleteI guess they were to get you into his music store. He had some top talent visit on his Christmas specials. Even Lawrence Welk did a brief polka with Bob's wife.
ReplyDeleteI bet he did!! ;)
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