Christmas In July 2023-Part 7
I feel like I'm shortchanging you with only six tracks a day, but it's been a fairly slow year for finding shares. Ever since the pandemic, I've gotten out of the habit of spending all weekend digging through the stacks of records at thrift stores. And I put most of my existing record collection into storage so that I'd have enough room in the condo for my girlfriend to move in with me. I've now got a little bit of my paycheck left every week, too, so that's certainly a bonus. But even with all the positives, I miss not being able to share ten or twenty titles with you a day for the whole month or two. Times change, and it's certainly more manageable this way. Enough whining, here are your six tracks for the day:
1. Bobby Lester & The Moonglows-Just A Lonely Christmas-Live
2. Marais And Miranda With The Pardo Ancient Instrument Ensemble-Mother Mary Is Rocking Her Child (German)
3. The Shawnee Choir-Earl Willhoite, Director-Richard Lindroth, Accompanist-String Bass: David Lantz-Snow, Snow, Beautiful Snow
4. The Ringing Belles-Rachael Kuivinen, Director-Patapan
5. The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble-The Seasons-Winter
6. Iroquois Junior Public School Primary & Senior Choirs, Choir Director-Shirley Munroe-Rocking Carol
I should probably be talking more about the music as well, but I don't have the energy for that. The info is all there in the track tags, feel free to discuss in the comments. Enjoy!
Hey, no one would ever accuse you of not being generous! Thanks as always!
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm as generous as I'm going to get. :)
DeleteLOL. I actually prefer the "quick" hits.
ReplyDeleteWell, to each his own. It's a whole lot easier for me to not pontificate on all the songs, but I'm just being lazy. :)
DeleteReally like the Bobby Lester and the Moonglows cut! Surprised to find out that it was both Acapella AND live! Those classic harmonies sound great. The engineer probably could have done a better job filtering out some of the crowd noise, yet this is an amazing piece of work. "50's nostalgia at a later time in our nation's history.
ReplyDeleteI believe that was from a record released not long after his death by a grey-market oldies company that sourced the original tape from his wife. I doubt if there was an engineer involved in the process at all. I was surprised that it was even listenable. :)
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