Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Seeing Double

I knew this sleeve looked familiar! I shared a record with this same cover image earlier in the season, commenting about how familiar it was. I'm sure when I recorded this record I had intended to share both on the same day, but it was yet another plan that fell under the wheels when I went to New Mexico for Christmas. This is The Temple Ladies Chorale-The Glorious Sounds Of Christmas (Tennessee Temple University 94580, Stereo). I keep telling myself I need to hold back some of these stock cover sleeves, then share a whole days' worth of records with the same cover. But I'm too lazy to make that happen. Maybe someday...

1. Carol Of The Bells
2. Blessed Little Baby
3. Forever Worthy
4. Jesus, Jesus Rest Your Head
5. Fum, Fum, Fum
6. Silver Bells
7. Joy To The World
8. Sing Alleluia! Christ Is Born
9. Ivory Palaces
10. Infant Holy
11. Away In A Manger
12. Jesus Our Lord We Adore Thee
13. Noel, Noel Bells Are Ringing

MEGA

13 comments:

  1. It will happen when it is time. I have the same problem, stock piles of materials that to some, is just junk, but to me? Art to BE! -Organ

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    1. Hard to keep track of all the different and conflicting plans. :) But occasionally it all comes together in the right place at the right time!

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  2. Sounds like an interesting idea Ernie.
    But, as you have said, just when yoiu think you have everything, you find another one, or two in another stack or two.
    Hard to organize something like this in a physical sense, unless you have multiple copies of things. That being said, with albums, multiple albums each have their drawbacks I would suppose.
    Digital would work, but you would never have a 100% collection I would think.

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    1. Even when it's all digital, it's hard to find all the things with similar covers...

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    2. Yes, you are right.
      Even though I am into organizing things, then re-organizing on an ongoing basis, every 6-12 months, there still is that slight chance something is out of place.

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    3. I spend a lot of time now running back and forth between different shelves trying to find that record I saw just a few days ago. Even if they were in perfect alphabetical order, I'd still do the same thing because I tend to key off of the cover image, not the artist or title. I remember it had an apple in the upper left corner, or it showed a church with snow on the roof. I go crazy until I can find just what I remember...

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    4. Well Ernie, a very interesting album.
      It seems to have been recorded in either the late 1970s or the early 1980s. Of course, maybe later than this?
      Anyway, with roughly, more or less, 4000 students enrolled, how many of this amount were Ladies, they chose these 40 or so for their choir. Did they have a Mens choir, it seems not?
      The bells were added in 1977. They make a welcomed addition.
      From this high point, everything went down and down, to poof they were gone.

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    5. Ernie, a Christmas album with "...it showed a church with snow on the roof..." wouldn't narrow your search down very much, would it? :-)

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    6. Neither would "ornaments in front of a blurry curtain". :)

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  3. It is interesting how they used stock photos, in non internet world. Must have been way more difficult back then. Thank you, Ernie :)

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    1. I think it was a couple small companies with a portfolio of pictures you could choose from. It was rare that the same image would be used in the same community, and only the occasional dedicated collector would ever notice the duplication. Now in the digital age, we can see all of them and realize what was going on all along.

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