Today makes for an even dozen of these daily oldie recaps. I hope they're helping someone out there. Here are some more links to old Christmas in July shares. Enjoy!
2022 & 2022 (one of my classic second-best-of collections)
2021 (Nothing, nada, zip, zero, zilch)
2019 and 2019 and 2019 (how much did I share in 2019? It's an embarrassment of riches)
On the twelfth day of Christmas in July, Ernie gave to me, eight tracks of Christmas cheer! Best I could do on short notice. I'll stop making up songs now and share the featured track with you as shown above. A festive polka that I've shared with you before, also in mono. I wonder why a stereo copy has eluded me for all these years? Such are the mysteries that keep me awake at night. (Nope, I'm wrong, looks like I shared out a stereo copy in 2018. I've shared to much I can't even keep track of it all...)
1. St. Mary's Choir, Boys And Adult Choir-Silent Night (In Remembrance...)
2. Professor Max Hiendlmayr-Schubert: Ave Maria (The Bells Of St. Mary's And Other Organ Selections, 1970)
3. Texas Lutheran College Choir-Paul Engelstad, Director-Song Of The Crib (Sacred Music At Texas Lutheran College)
4. Northern Illinois University Wind Ensemble-Stephen Squires, Conductor-Medley Christmas (Alfred Concert Band Music (1988), 1988)
5. Will Glahé And His Orchestra-Holiday Polka (The Big Band Polka Hits, 1963)
6. The Naasko Singers-Sleigh Ride (An Evening With Song, 1975)
7. Jamestown High School A Cappella Choir 1990-1991-James A. Bogey, Conductor-Swedish Dance Carol (Songs Of '91, 1991)
8. Jenson Publications And Purifoy Publishing-Angels, Shepherds And Kings (Choral Celebration Vol. VI, 1984)
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1. Clear Springs Chorus, Directed By Miss Shari Steffen, Accompanist: Mrs. Patricia Paul-Pine Cones And Holly Berries (Clear Springs Chorus Sings)
2. John Gart At The Conn Electronic Organ With The Minute Men-The March Of The Toys (Organ On The March, 1959)
3. The Naasko Singers-Christmas Is (An Evening With Song, 1975)
4. Jamestown High School A Cappella Choir 1990-1991-James A. Bogey, Conductor-Fum, Fum, Fum (Songs Of '91, 1991)
5. Jim Borden-Rocking Carol (Jim Borden Sings Folk Songs-Christmas Carols, 1964)
6. Lenore Engdahl, Pianist-Cradle Song (Piano Music For Children By Dmitri Kabalevsky, 1957)
7. Jenson Publications And Purifoy Publishing-They Kept On Praising His Birth (Choral Celebration Vol. VI, 1984)
8. Hal Leonard Concert Band-The Hallelujah Chorus (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
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A little bit of good news for you today. I found an LP deep in the stacks that should have been in the Christmas in July stack, and another one at a little local thrift store, so I was able to add almost thirty tracks to the pool. That lets me increase the songs per day up to eight from seven. And I'm likely to need to bump that up again later in the month as I figure out what exactly is in the pile. Still going to be a lot of sampler tracks which I know are not one of our favorite bits, but they make for a more healthy download each day. Headline track for the day is from the Allen Keller LP shown above. It's a rerun from a previous year, but it's the sort of thing I really love to find. A true Christmas track that doesn't seem to have seen the light of day anywhere else. And how can you go wrong with something on Charlie Parker's record label?
1. Lafayette College Choir-Dr. John Raymond, Director-Baritone Solo: Victor R. Partridge, '59-I Wonder As I Wander (Annual Spring Concert May 1959, 1959)
2. Clear Springs Chorus, Directed By Miss Shari Steffen, Accompanist: Mrs. Patricia Paul-Westminster Carol (Clear Springs Chorus Sings)
3. Jamestown High School A Cappella Choir 1990-1991-James A. Bogey, Conductor-Adeste Fidelis (Songs Of '91, 1991)
4. Allen Keller And Trombones-Christmas Road (A New Look At The World, 1962)
5. Aled Jones-Organyyd Huw Tregelles Williams-Bethlehem (Ave Maria, 1984)
6. Children Of St. John's School, Toronto, Under The Direction Of Sister Mary Hamilton C.N.D.-A Child Is Born In Bethlehem (Music Selections For Come To The Father, 1967)
7. Hal Leonard Concert Band-Treasury Of Carols (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
8. Jenson Publications-The Bell Carol (New Music For Concert Band-Volume 27-Easy Edition, 1990)
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Is anyone actually finding these recaps of old Christmas in July posts helpful? I'm not really getting much feedback on them. I guess most visitors hereabouts have been coming for a long time now and already have all these old downloads in their music collections already. But I'm going to keep doing them, at least for the time being. I'm sure someone new will stumble by and find them helpful. If this is your first time seeing one of these recap posts, these are links to all the old Christmas in July shares in the archives that still have active downloads. There are lots more, but you'll just be frustrated by the lack of Zippyshare download connectivity. To the list!
2022 (The second-best collection, volume 3)
2021 (An old best-of from 2010)
Day 9, nothing really special about day 9 I'm afraid. I'll point you to the selection by Bette Stalnecker today, not for the special lyrics she created for the classic White Christmas, but for the fact that I ripped her contributions a couple of years ago but forgot to share them. The LP popped up in my collection recently and looked really familiar, but I couldn't find where I had ever shared the tracks. I eventually discovered an old rip in my collection and I must have forgotten to put it in the Christmas In July folder that year. I wonder how many other songs I've missed out on over the past twenty years because I didn't put it in the correct folder. I bet it's a non-zero number. But I've got it corrected this year, you can now listen to her at-times masculine voice over and over again. Oh, I also wanted to point out the Mannheim Steamroller link in one of the arrangement sampler albums. There's not much of note in most of those, but I thought it kind of funny that they made a big deal about using Chip Davis' arrangement. Enjoy!
1. Clear Springs Chorus, Directed By Miss Shari Steffen, Accompanist: Mrs. Patricia Paul-We Need A Little Christmas (Clear Springs Chorus Sings)
2. Bette Stalnecker With The Keyboard Artistry Of John Bos And The Bob Cline Singers-White Christmas (Christmas/Spirit)
3. Hal Leonard Concert Band-A Fresh Aire Christmas (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
4. Choir Of St. Andrew's Collegiate Church, Steyning, West Sussex, Music Director: Neil A. Page-Prayer For A New Mother (I Was Glad, 1985)
5. Northern Illinois University Wind Ensemble-We Three Kings And All That Jazz (Alfred's Concert Band '84, 1984)
6. Jim Borden-What Shall We Give? (Jim Borden Sings Folk Songs-Christmas Carols, 1964)
7. Jenson Publications-Jingle Bells (New Music For Concert Band-Volume 27-Easy Edition, 1990)
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Time for another stroll down memory lane with a set of links to old Christmas in July shares. There's so much good stuff in the archives, I wish more people were aware of it. I could repost everything, but then I'd be posting so much stuff that people quit paying attention. I guess there's no good solution to the problem. If you want more Christmas in July, here are the links, that's all I can do. Lead a horse to water and all...
2021 (Nothing...)
1. Bill Conti-Ice Skating (An Unmarried Woman, 1978)
2. Niles Township High School East-Girls Glee-Richard Rusch, Director-Take Me For A Sleigh Ride (Winter Music Festival, 1967)
3. Bette Stalnecker With The Keyboard Artistry Of John Bos And The Bob Cline Singers-Go Tell It On The Mountain (Christmas/Spirit)
4. Boardman & Andress-The Marvelous Toy (The Music Book K-8, 1983)
5. Choir Of St. Andrew's Collegiate Church, Steyning, West Sussex, Music Director: Neil A. Page, Soloist: Nigel Newman-A Spotless Rose (I Was Glad, 1985)
6. Jenson Publications-March Of The Madcap Marionettes (Sound Ideas For Concert Band Vol V, 1979)
7. Hal Leonard Concert Band-A Christmas Spiritual (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
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Well, yesterday's recap post was extra long and involved, I hope you enjoyed it. Today it's back to the past shares that are still good without all the links that don't have downloads. If you're really interested in the back pages of the blog, I encourage you to use the old page links to the right or the search bar up top (assuming you're looking at this on a computer screen, if you're on a mobile device, then all bets are off).
2024 (The shares were really small this year, but something is better than nothing.)
2021 (Another best-of collection)
1. Aled Jones-Organyyd Huw Tregelles Williams-O Holy Night (Ave Maria, 1984)
2. Northern Illinois University Wind Ensemble-Stephen Squires, Conductor-O Little Town Of Bethlehem (Alfred Young Concert Band Music (1988), 1988)
3. The Budapest Gipsy Orchestra-Winter Song (Téli Dal) (Gipsy Serenade)
4. Choir Of St. Andrew's Collegiate Church, Steyning, West Sussex, Music Director: Neil A. Page-Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (I Was Glad, 1985)
5. Jim Borden-Down In Yon Forest (Jim Borden Sings Folk Songs-Christmas Carols, 1964)
6. Jenson Publications-Suite From Messiah (New Music For Concert Band-Volume 27-Easy Edition, 1990)
7. Hal Leonard Concert Band-Winter Wonderland (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
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Let's head back into the archives, shall we, and see what was shared on this day and still available for download.
2021 (Didn't post anything this day, not much to share this year.)
And there were plenty of posts before that, but the downloads are long gone. This Christmas In July project goes back to 2006 while the blog itself goes back to 2005. I feel really old sometimes.
2016 (Nada, didn't do it this year. I was otherwise occupied...)
2014 (Looks like I skipped two years in a row. Like I said, occupied...)
2013
As I said, there are no good downloads at those old posts, but I wanted to show off just how long I've been doing this.
And just for old times sake, there's a 2005 link to when I used to post artwork from the flip side of old albums, I called it doodles and did a whole series of Christmas doodles in July that first year. Good stuff.
1. Jenson Publications-A Jubilant Christmas (New Music For Concert Band-Volume 27-Easy Edition, 1990)
2. Anona United Methodist Church Youth Choir-Music Director: Alan Jenkins-Mary Had A Baby (Anona United Methodist Church Youth Choir)
3. Ithaca College Band-Walter Beeler, Director-Christmas Medley (Play Away)
4. Choir Of St. Andrew's Collegiate Church, Steyning, West Sussex, Music Director: Neil A. Page, Soloist: Daniel Gorbold-Once In Royal David's City (I Was Glad, 1985)
5. J.J. Johnson-Winter's Waif (J.J.!, 1965)
6. Clear Springs Chorus, Directed By Miss Shari Steffen, Accompanist: Mrs. Patricia Paul-Let There Be Peace On Earth And Let It Begin With Me (Clear Springs Chorus Sings)
7. Hal Leonard Concert Band-The Christmas Song (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
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