Monday, November 30, 2020

The Return Of The Skiers


I hadn't planned on throwing up any old shares this year, but this LP crossed my Facebook feed, and I remembered sharing it at some point in 2008. It's been somewhat scarce since then, possibly because it's not really a Christmas album, and because one of the tracks skips, I hate sharing something like that. I need to revisit this one at some point and see if I can fix that. I don't think I've ever seen another copy, but I have learned a few tricks to get a skip to play through, so maybe...  Reading the liner notes, I see that The Yodeling Guides are credited as Fred Barrie And Tony Hartenstein. I don't think I noticed that the first time around. And I certainly didn't notice the Pete King credit for arranging. I'm betting he did more than arrange this though, I suspect this was a studio assemblage that he put together for this one LP only. But I can't prove that, or course. This is an old rip so the bitrate isn't that good, and like I said, it skips in one song, so don't put that track in your playlist if you can help it.  Back from oblivion, this is The Blazers & The Yodelin' Guides-Track! Songs Of The Skiers (Kapp 1218, Mono, 1960).

1. Ski Trails
2. Winter Song
3. There's A Tavern In The Town-Vive La Compagnie
4. S.B.B. (The Swiss Railroad Song)
5. She'll Be Skiing Down The Mountain-The Man On The New Pair Of Skiis-Wham! Went The Skier
6. The Happy Wanderer
7. Hop-Sah-Sah
8. Ski, Ski, Ski
9. We're The Gang-Give A Cheer
10. The Weggis Song (This track skips, sorry...)
11. Beer Barrel Polka
12. It Happened In Sun Valley

6 comments:

  1. Very nice!
    Please Ernie post more album and less single tracks ...

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  2. There are probably a thousand old albums in the archives. If that's what you want, go download them. This year I'm sharing collections of single tracks, usually with a theme. You can retag them as an album if you like. It's great stuff! So many of these old recordings have never appeared anywhere else, and I'm excited to share them.

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  3. Ok!
    (... not too much thousand because before 2018 are all expired ...)

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  4. Perhaps you haven't looked in the comments...

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  5. Perfectly appropriate. According to the weather report, we may need skis to get around here in the next few days.

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  6. Fun stuff, you do what you do Ernie - haven't steered me wrong yet (well....almost never) and this is a great album - thanks for the re-share

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