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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The theme is bells, and no bell ringers? (Not that I am complaining.) This is one of your most imaginative sets.
ReplyDeleteI don't recall a single 45 of bell ringers all year. :( Clearly I need to work on that.
DeleteThank you, Ernie. Happy "Ukrainian Christmas Eve" to you, and all :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know how happy it is for the Ukrainians. :( But same to you, and merry Epiphany!
DeleteLots of good stuff here- The Supremes make an appearance! Like Larry Ritz's "Santa's Sleigh Bells". The Timbuk 3 medley was unexpected but they pulled it off. Thanks Ernie for the continuation of the season, and happy Three Kings Day!
ReplyDelete- Steve in PA
Can't go wrong with Motown! :)
DeleteThanks Ernie!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure!
DeleteDear Ernie, many thanks for this nice collection of jingling bells. I renew my wish of Paul Ankas Japan Jingle Bells Version on this way :).
ReplyDeleteStill coming, I checked. :)
DeleteLots of good ones here, including two trumpet players singing for a change! The Al Hirt selection is one of the livelier versions of the tune that is on his Christmas album.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I like about singles sometimes, they kinda boil the LP down to the best tracks. Or at least one good track if they don't want you to pay any attention to the b-side. :)
DeleteAlso great to have my favorite vocal version of Good King Wencelas posted a day after one of my favorite instrumental versions! This is the full-length version of the song; when it was featured on True Value's Happy Holidays, Volume 21, they edited out the grand instrumental introduction and began with the Ames Brothers singing; they reprised that same recording In Volume 25, one of the few volumes in the series that I have on cassette only.
ReplyDeleteThat grand fanfare of an intro is my favorite bit of the song! Who did that? Sid Ramin? It's great!
DeleteAlso great to have several of my favorite acts in this playlist, including Andy Williams, the Three Suns, and the Supremes in addition to the Ames Brothers and Vic Damone (the selection you chose here is totally new to me and I am looking forward to listening to it, as well as the Count Basie selection. I didn't think he cut any Christmas music until you crate-digged and unearthed the single posted here. Many thanks!)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think Basie's Jingle Bells was the only holiday track he recorded. Plenty of stuff has been released in his name since his death, but he had nothing to do with it. :(
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