Saturday, December 06, 2025

Super Saturday Salvation 2

For the second installment in this long string of Salvation Army records today, we skip ahead to 1968 and the special guest star is Raymond Burr, star of the American version of the very first Godzilla movie, as well as his own TV show Perry Mason. I used to enjoy watching that at noon weekdays on channel 44 when I was a wee tyke. I could only watch it regularly during the summer, but if I was sick and had to stay home during the school year, I could watch it right after The Price Is Right. Good times. Hopefully this will bring back some good memories for you as well. This is Special Christmas Program (Army Of Stars, The Salvation Army, Western Territory, Public Relations Department CPM-122604, Stereo, 1968). They still haven't gotten into the descriptive titles yet, but the artwork is almost as good. I assume there are records released each year between the last one and this one, I just haven't dug them up yet. Anybody out there have the missing ones?

1. Army Of Stars Orchestra-Conducted By Rex Koury-Army Of Stars Theme
2. Ingvar Wixell-Valentine's Cavatina (Faust)
3. Maralin Niska, Azusa Pacific College Choir-The Lord's Prayer
4. Jeanette Scovotti-Lord Jesus Christ (The Prayers Of Kierkegaard)
5. Army Of Stars Orchestra-Conducted By Rex Koury-Christmas Medley
6. Jeanette Scovotti-O Had I Jubel's Lyre (Joshua)
7. Army Of Stars Orchestra-Conducted By Rex Koury-Night In Bethlehem
8. Stuart Burrows-Every Valley Shall Be Exalted (Messiah)
9. Raymond Burr With Army Of Stars Orchestra-Christmas Story
10. Azusa Pacific College Choir-Earle Anderson, Director-Westminster Carol

MEGA

Posted by Ernie at 12/06/2025 02:00:00 AM

8 comments:

  1. JonathanSaturday, December 06, 2025 2:19:00 AM

    Hey Ernie, I have found ones on Internet Archive. I have ones from 1949, 1950, 1958, 1966, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1978, and 1986. I don't have the physical records, just ones I have found on internet. Hopefully, you have ones that I don't have and or better than them :)

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    1. ErnieSaturday, December 06, 2025 5:30:00 AM

      You're going to get some of those today, and some more later in the month that I didn't have when I prepped these posts, but it looks like you have some that I don't.

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    2. JonathanSaturday, December 06, 2025 2:32:00 PM

      Sounds great :) Thank you so much, Ernie :)

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    3. ErnieSaturday, December 06, 2025 4:19:00 PM

      My pleasure. I've been looking at these things in the collection for years but this is the first time I've actually buckled down and recorded them. :)

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  2. BusterSaturday, December 06, 2025 10:45:00 AM

    They did get impressive opera personalities for these shows - these folks were all well known.

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    1. ErnieSaturday, December 06, 2025 12:17:00 PM

      Few of these names meant anything to me outside of the celebrity guests. I should have asked you to write some commentary!

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  3. Laurie G.Monday, December 08, 2025 5:44:00 AM

    Less impressive cover but I love a celebrity guest and this is a good one!

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    1. ErnieMonday, December 08, 2025 6:51:00 AM

      The covers kind of come and go, but the guests are always with us. :)

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