Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Agway

I've got another record here for you that I picked up just for the cover. It's a great example of that Seventies design aesthetic that used weird earthy colors. I think this is exactly the sort of color palette that Miami Vice came along and destroyed in the early Eighties with all their pastel pinks. But it's a nice design even if the colors are odd by today's standards. This is The Hamilton College Male Choir, Brass Choir, Woodwinds, Strings And Organ-An American Christmas (A Lexington Productions Recording/Agway Holiday Heritage Series LS1607, Stereo, 1967). Agway appears to have been a local store of some sort, I think they still exist today. And even though this is listed as part of a special holiday series, there is only this one entry as far as I can tell.

1. Joy To The World
2. Silent Night
3. Gloria In Excelsis Deo
4. Sir Christemas
5. Three Carols For Brass: In Thee Is Gladness; All My Heart This Christmas Rejoices; Unto Us A Child Is Born
6. Schlaf Mein Kindelein (Sleep, Little Child)
7. Brothers, Lift Your Voices
8. In Dulci Jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
9. Adeste Fideles
10. The Kings Fanfare
11. Angels We Have Heard On High
12. Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
13. In The Bleak Midwinter
14. What Child Is This
15. Hodie Aparuit (Today He Appeared)
16. The Heavens Are Telling
17. Of The Father's Love Begotten
18. Schlaf Wohl (Sleep Well)
19. Sing We Noel
20. La Serafina (The Angel)
21. Coventry Carol
22. Three Kings

6 comments:

  1. Agway was a feed and seed business. It went bankrupt and was bought by True Value, which itself went bankrupt last year.

    Agway was from DeWitt, outside Syracuse, NY. Hamilton College is in Clinton, NY, near Oneida, which is not that far from Syracuse.

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    1. Oh, feed and seed, so a Tractor Supply or Com See Com Save here in town.

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  2. I would have been powerless against that cover. Really really great.

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    1. Sometimes you just have to judge the book by it's cover. :)

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  3. 36 hours without internet access. Thanks Xfinity. I see I have some serious catching up to do. I remember the Agway out in Riverhead (L.I.) Riverhead being where the courthouses were. Damn Jury Duty.

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    1. I dunno if I could go 36 hours without the internet, especially at this time of year. I guess we'll see when I'm in New Mexico. Some of the places we want to go are pretty out of the way so I'll likely be off the grid for long periods, if not entire days.

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