Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Life Words

From one college group to the next, that's been the story of the blog this season. If it's not college groups or high school groups, middle schools or elementaries, it's churches or civic groups. I usually avoid such things but I feel like I need to work my way though the hundreds of these records in my collection. There's usually something of interest on each one of them, at least worth one listen. Occasionally there's something you'll want to hear again, but if you're like me, you can't remember what it was. This is The Word Of Life Collegians-The Sights & Sounds Of Christmas (Word Of Life Fellowship 8511, Stereo, 1985). Just in case you're curious, Word Of Life Bible Institute, the people behind this album, do not appear to be associated with the Lutherans, or any other denomination. They have a campus here in Florida just a couple counties north of me (as well as one in New York state). That would explain how this album came to me, it didn't have to travel very far. Sometimes the forensics of album dispersion are easy, other times they are hard.

1. Here We Come A-Caroling
2. Jingle Bells
3. O Holy Night
4. Silent Night! Holy Night!
5. The Twelve Days Of Christmas
6. White Christmas
7. Ring The Bells
8. The Best Gift I Ever Got For Christmas
9. Toyland
10. Frosty, The Snowman
11. They Need Love
12. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
13. While By My Sheep
14. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
15. Angels We Have Heard On High

MEGA

Posted by Ernie at 3/31/2026 06:00:00 AM

9 comments:

  1. AnonymousTuesday, March 31, 2026 7:14:00 AM

    I'm betting the uploads will run through Easter Sunday: nice bookends of Jesus' Birth and Resurrection, plus I think it will happen to be exactly 100 days since Christmas.

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    1. ErnieTuesday, March 31, 2026 7:16:00 AM

      Dunno yet. Every time I try to plot something out, it gets all messed up. I'm just taking it day by day at this point. :)

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  2. JackTuesday, March 31, 2026 7:52:00 AM

    Ernie, you are utterly amazing!!

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    1. ErnieTuesday, March 31, 2026 8:01:00 AM

      I'm just a guy with too much time and too many records on my hands. :)

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  3. AnonymousTuesday, March 31, 2026 8:38:00 AM

    We're going to run into Christmas in July!

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    1. ErnieTuesday, March 31, 2026 8:47:00 AM

      Let's hope not. In fact, let's hope there is a Christmas in July. I need to find some more Christmas songs from non-Christmas records...

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  4. BryanTuesday, March 31, 2026 6:45:00 PM

    Well Ernie, you can always go back to the first Christmas in July and start sharing those links or remix those collections to share again.
    You know, reruns, then one new collection and so on.
    While I have only been around your blog since about 2019, Christmas in July I have never visited. The exception being the Best of or second Best of. But, even those, I still have never listen too. Maybe one day?

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  5. BryanTuesday, March 31, 2026 7:20:00 PM

    Well, it is Christmas Wednesday listening for me. This album starts it off.
    Too bad that first part on track one was not a separate stand-alone track. I was dreading that the whole album was going to sound like that. I wanted to slap him up one side the head and down the other.
    But then the songs by a really great sounding choir started to flow.
    But who the hell came up with that arrangement of, "The Twelve Days Of Christmas"? Someone has been hanging around Disneyland I suspect. Do not get me wrong, "The Electrical Parade", is one of the highlights when going there, but in a Christmas song?
    Oh my, "The Best Gift I Ever Got For Christmas", was certainly not listening to this version of this song.
    And that someone was hanging around the synthesizer again for "Toyland".
    Plus that cover, oy vey. They cut out all those pictures, photo copied them multiple times, and gave them to some school or ???, and had collages made. The winner ???, than became the album cover.
    It ended very well, with a hint of that synthesizer again. Oh well, it was 1985.

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  6. JonathanWednesday, April 01, 2026 12:43:00 AM

    This Instistute looks like something I could have grown up hearing about. I will have to look into it. Thank you, Ernie :)

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