40-Sock It To Me Santa

Near as I can tell, today is the twelfth day of Christmas, AKA Epiphany, AKA Little Christmas. It's the end of the season officially, but I've got a little surprise for you. It's not the end of the season around here. I've still got some 45s in the pile that I want to share with you so I'm going to keep on going. How long, I can't say for sure, but the end is certainly in sight. Don't worry though, I'm going to keep the quality just as high as it's been all season. For instance, today is the third installment of Christmas music from Canada and it's another great collection. I couldn't find a Christmas greeting from a third Canadian artist, so I went with Swedish bombshell Ann-Margaret. (And I think this is the second greeting from her this season, which I meant to avoid but oops...) All the rest of the songs come from Canadian artists or at least Canadian records. You really can't go wrong with any of these, it's good stuff. Enjoy!

1. Rudy Veltri-The Christmas Window
2. Ann-Margret-Christmas Greetings
3. Bud Logan-Sock It To Me Santa
4. Carroll Baker-A Carpenter, A Mother And A King
5. Dennis Day With The Al Harris Quintette And The Laurie Bower Singers-That's What Christmas Means To Me
6. Diane Dufresne-Orchestration: Yves Lapierre-Une Fleur Sur La Neige
7. Dinah Christie With Ozzie Williams Music-Winter Song
8. Family Brown-I Want You For Christmas
9. Frank Jennings-Silent Night
10. H.C. Martin-The Very First Second Christmas
11. Leonard Duquette Et Son Ensemble Hawaien-Douce Nuit (Hawaienne)
12. Les Bel Canto-Le Pere Noel A Pris Un Coup
13. Les Bihanki-Arr. & Orch: J. DeVilliers, Arr. Vocaux: R. Singler-Noel Sans Toi
14. Les Chanteurs De Noel-Sous la Direction de L. Hale-Et Les Cloches Sonnaient
15. Les Djinns Sous La Direction De Paul Bonneau At Le Grand Orchestre De Paris-Mon Beau Sapin
16. Lucien Jeunesse Avec Jack Ledru Et Son Ensemble-Legende De Saint Nicolas
17. Mariette Daviau-Arr. & Orch. G. Fiori-La Dinde De Noel
18. Michele Richard-Orchestre Ti-Blanc Richard-Le Village Du Pere Noel
19. Petula Clark-Minuit Chretien (Noël d'Adam)
20. Pierret Beauchamp-Acc: Léo Du Plessis à l'Orgue Conn-Le Petit Renne Au Nez Rouge
21. The Bells-Auld Lang Syne (Vocal)
22. Wilf Carter And The Calgary Stampeders-Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
23. Bev Munro And The Rhythm Rascals-If I Send You Christmas Roses
24. Bobby Prochaska-A Christmas Jingle
25. Charles Aznavour-Hosanna
26. Claude Valade-Silver Bells
27. Cy Leonard-Piney The Talking Christmas Tree
28. Dany Aube-Arr. et Orch: Paul Baillargeon-Mon Cadeau De Noel
29. Fernand Gignac-Arr. et Orch. Roger Pilon-Petit Papa Noel
30. Frédéric François-Si J'étais Le Père Noël
31. Gus Schwartz-Have Yourself A Merry Christmas
32. Jean-Claude Darnel Chante Avec Les Enfants-La Rose De Noël
33. Johnny Hayden And The Blue Notes-Hear The Bells Of Christmas
34. Les Classels-Le Sentier De La Neige
35. Lucky Blondo-Je Rentre Chez Moi Pour Noel
36. Michel Pagliaro-Le Petit Enfant Saint
37. Nestor-Arr. et Orch.: Roger Pilon-Merci Ti-Jesus
38. Ozzie Williams Music-Toy Soldiers On Parade
39. Pat O'Day Davis-Chanson De Noel
40. Paul Brunelle et Ses Troubadours du Far-West-Le Premier Jour De L'an
41. Rene Simard-Dir. Mus.: Jacques Crevier-Noel Blanc
42. Ricky And Brenda-Christmas Joy
43. Robert Charlebois-Arrangements et Direction Musicale Pierre F. Brault-Demain L'hiver
44. Roger Whittaker-The Christmas Song
45. The Lee Hale Singers-And The Bells Rang (Et Les Cloches Sonnaient)

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39-Swingin' Sleighbells

The theme of the day is bells! Sleigh bells, jingle bells, Christmas bells of all sorts. Too many variations on Jingle Bells than I wanted to use, but I wanted to get some variety in there. Could probably have filled the playlist up with different versions but I didn't want to overwhelm you if you chose to listen to the whole thing at once. I think Jingle Bells was one of the songs that I wound up with about 10 different versions of when I got to the end of the sorting. Not quite sure what I'm going to do with all the leftover versions of that song, Silent Night, White Christmas and I think a couple more. Just too many versions. But I'll worry about all that later. In the meantime, have a download and a listen to these. Enjoy! (Oh, looks like I dropped a sub-theme of star songs in here, too. Didn't notice that at first.)

1. Count Basie & His Orchestra-Basie's Jingle Bells
2. Vic Damone With Marty Manning-The Legend Of The Bells
3. Al Hirt-Arranged And Conducted By Dick Hyman-Nutty Jingle Bells
4. Al Martino-Orchestra And Chorus Under The Direction of Peter DeAngelis-Silver Bells
5. Comfort And Joy-Jingle Bell Rap
6. Freddy King-I Hear Jingle Bells
7. Gus De Wert Trio And Gay LaComb-When Christmas Bells Are Ringing
8. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass-The Bell That Couldn't Jingle
9. Joe Sherman Orchestra And Chorus-I Saw A Star
10. Larry Ritz-Santa's Sleigh Bells
11. Marv Meredith And His Orchestra-Swingin' Sleighbells
12. The Brothers Four-Christmas Bells
13. The Modernaires With Orchestra Directed By Sonny Burke-Santa's Little Sleigh Bells
14. The Romeos-Jingle Bells Jam
15. Tommy Mercer-Jingle Bell Night
16. Andy Williams-Orchestra Conducted By Archie Bleyer-The Wind, The Sand And The Star
17. Bobby Emmons And The Crosstones With The Wanderers-Christmas Bell Rock
18. Fred Waring And The Pennsylvanians-I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
19. Ivan Browne-Jingle Bell Ride
20. Lawrence Welk & His Champagne Music With Vocal By The Sparklers-Ring Those Christmas Bells
21. Lillian Brooks And The Two Tones-Orchestra Conducted By Eddie Ballantine-Twinkle Twinkle Christmas Star
22. Ruby Wright With Cliff Lash And His Orchestra-Everywhere The Bells Are Ringing
23. Ted Shafer's Jelly Roll Jazz Band-At The Christmas Ball
24. The High Hopes 1963-Jingle-Bell Time Ring Ding
25. The Jack Halloran Singers-The Christmas Star
26. The Little Kids-Tambourine Jingle (Jingle Bells)
27. The McGuire Sisters With Orchestra Directed By Dick Jacobs-The Littlest Angel
28. The Supremes-Twinkle Twinkle Little Me
29. Timbuk 3-Medley: Blue Christmas/I Love You X 3
30. Vaughn Monroe And His Orchestra-Vocal Refrain By Vaughn Monroe And The Moon Maids-Snowy White Snow And Jingle Bells
31. The Ames Brothers With Sid Ramin And His Orchestra And Broc Peters Chorus-Good King Wenceslas
32. The Jud Conlon Chorale And Billy May's Music-O Come All Ye Faithful
33. The Norman Luboff Choir-It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
34. Seymour (The Heartbeat Trumpet) With Chimes And Organ-O, Tannenbaum
35. Hank Snow, The Singing Ranger And The Rainbow Ranch Boys-Silent Night
36. Hebden Bridge Junior Band, Conductor Brian H. Robinson-Christmas Swing Along (Winter Wonderland, All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas)
37. Mireille Mathieu Acompañada Por La Gran Orquesta De Paul Mauriat-Gloria In Excelsis Deo (Les Agnes Dans Nos Campagnes)
38. Skitch Henderson And His Orchestra-The Merry Bells
39. The Somerset Strings-Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
40. The William Dawson Chorale-Merry Are The Bells
41. Jimmy Boyd-Orchestra, Chorus Under Direction Of J. Carroll-Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
42. The Three Suns-Frosty The Snow Man
43. The Mariners-Starlight Carol
44. The Spinners-Season's Greetings
45. The Voices Of Walter Schumann-The First Noël

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