Time for part two of our Living Christmas Tree extravaganza, this time hailing from the home of Disneyland, Anaheim, California! I don't think Anaheim is all that large of a city, so I'm sure this band put in an appearance or two at Disneyland over the years, likely performing some of the material from this LP during the holiday season. I will also award this album the best Christmas tree cover of the batch (even though you haven't seen all of them just yet). The colors and the quality of the photo really stand out in my mind, someone worked really hard to make this image come to fruition. I hope you find the music as pleasing as I find the cover image. This is
Western High School A Cappella Choir-
The Singing Christmas Tree (National Custom Recording NCR12-671 (Anaheim, California), Stereo).
1. Echo, Noel
2. Sing Gloria
3. O Come, Emmanuel
4. Emitte Spiritum Tuum
5. Carol Of The New Prince
6. Behold That Star
7. Carol Of The Bells
8. O Holy Night
9. Carol Of The Drum
10. A Joyous Christmas Song
11. Silent Night
12. Hallelujah Chorus-"Messiah"
MEGA
That cover- someone had great vision to get that effect! This album has a nice selection: Looking forward to it. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteAre they wearing colored tinfoil around their neck & shoulders? It's a neat effect.
DeleteYes, a very nice cover! Well done.
ReplyDeleteDon't think the music can live up to the cover...
DeleteWas hoping you would have had an Irish Christmas album today in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Still, the hard effort to make the living Christmas tree on the front cover photo certainly paid off. Very pretty.
ReplyDeleteI'm just serving up leftovers at this point, not much selection left to offer themes. But I did find and rip an Irish artist's Christmas record this past weekend.
DeleteThere's always this...
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The one year we had a white flocked Christmas tree, which I begged for, my mother put the old C7-style lights on it. There were mostly steady lit lights and a dozen or so twinkle ones. We always had a load of lights on the tree.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, this Living Christmas Tree reminds me of that white Christmas tree and all those C7-style lights on it.
Oh, she would only light the tree occasionally. Otherwise, she had this color wheel set up in front of it. This wheel was a leftover remnant from the year they had had a sliver Christmas tree, which my dad had bought, and I had never ever seen. She tossed it out after that one and only year. But my dad saved the color wheel.
I always wondered why those color wheels came with the silver aluminum trees and not the white ones. That would have made more sense to me, but I wasn't around for that era. We always had a green plastic tree. I can remember my maternal grandparents having white or pink trees, but they were small.
DeleteHeard this album earlier today, and overall these students could teach some of those other Schools a thing about performing.
ReplyDeleteOh, at least their music director was not tone-deaf.
Plus, someone must have bought this school a high-quality piano, not one you buy in the childrens under 3 year old toy department. The pianist at least did not bang on the keys.
I think most teachers have to work with what they've got. Hard to teach people to sing if you don't have some sort of audition process.
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