Wednesday, July 16, 2025

CiJ 2025-Day 16

OK, day 16, the true halfway point (because I always overshoot the end of July by at least a day, sometimes much, much more...). And I'm breaking with tradition here by burning through a lot of tracks by the same artist, or at least the same publishing company. I've got far too many tracks in the stack by Jenson Publications to share them out one a day so I'm going to dump seven of them all here at once. The other track in the stack is a surprising song-poem thing I found during that very special day at The Book Rescuers in St. Pete. I didn't know what I had until I got it home and looked a little closer. Someone spent good money to submit their special song lyrics to a company and have them matched up with music and sung by the anonymous Steve Jennings. There are numerous albums featuring Steve and a few other singers, but this was the only Christmas track I spotted in the discography at Discogs. Happy to share a little oddity like this, I'm sure you won't find it anywhere else.

1. Jenson Publications-Russian Christmas Music (New Music For Concert Band-Volume 27-Easy Edition, 1990)
2. Steve Jennings-No Christmas (Our World In Song)
3. Jenson Publications-Greensleeves: A Symphonic Setting (Sound Ideas For Concert Band Vol V, 1979)
4. Jenson Publications-The Spirit Of Christmas (Superior New Works For Concert Band-Vol. XVII Easy Edition, 1985)
5. Jenson Publications-White Christmas (Sound Ideas For Concert Band Vol V, 1979)
6. Jenson Publications And Purifoy Publishing-Do You Hear What I Hear? (Choral Celebration Vol. VI, 1984)
7. Jenson Publications And Purifoy Publishing-Venite Adoremus (Choral Celebration Vol. VI, 1984)
8. Jenson Publications And Purifoy Publishing-Silent Night (Choral Celebration Vol. VI, 1984)

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4 comments:

  1. For some reason, I find self-published songs creepy, when I should look on them the same as any other tune.

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    1. That's because, in general, they're creepy. Most professional songs had to go through some sort of vetting process to weed out the bad stuff, but there's not such process for the home brew stuff. I mean bad stuff gets done by pros all the time, but the percentage of good stuff is much higher.

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