Today marks another milestone as we head into the month of April and the shares are still flowing! I never imagined I could keep it going this long, but here we are. I keep saying that the coffers are almost empty and it's true, but I keep scraping the sides of the barrel and something always seems to fall out. I can count the number of unfinished files on my hard drive on my fingers now, so the end is near (Repent!). But I'm not stopping yet. Today is a pretty yellow & brown marbled record from the budget label king, Tops. This music was probably reissued a dozen or more times throughout the sixties (usually without White Christmas so they wouldn't have to pay anyone any songwriting royalties), but this appears to be it's first issue. It's a sister album to a couple of records I recorded and shared out early in the season over at my pal Buster's
excellent blog. (
Go get 'em if you don't have 'em yet.) It's simple choral stuff but it has a sound that really takes you back to that period in history. This is
The Fireside Carolers-
Let's All Sing Our Christmas Favorites (Tops/Mayfair 9676S, Stereo, 1959). Enjoy!
1. O, Come All Ye Faithful
2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
3. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
4. Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
5. Jingle Bells
6. The First Noel
7. Silent Night
8. White Christmas
9. Deck The Halls; Joy To The World
10. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
MEGA
Well Ernie, glad you offered this album, I was out of your shares to listen today.
ReplyDeleteBesides, you cannot go wrong with "Tops", at least they are superior to some of those vanity and tone-deaf records.
You can never be out of shares to listen to. Go download a hundred more!
DeleteFunny, the above comment I sent did not get sent right.
ReplyDeleteThat being said Ernie, you still have toes to count on.
I don't need 'em, the pile is getting thin...
DeleteGreat, just great? Well good anyways.
ReplyDeleteSomething tells me those two men in this photo have been celebrating with something in the liquid vain. What next, are they going to be wearing lamp shades and trying to steal kisses?
I heard stories from my parents about these parties they attended from the 1950s and 1960s. Like the one where my mother pushed an inebriated woman out the window into the flower bed. My mother was very jealous and protective of my father. As my mother told me, this lady never remembered this situation the very next day.
You never know what's a fancy punchbowl like that one. :)
DeleteThanks for the plug, boss! And thanks for this nice record with the colorful vinyl, always appreciated.
ReplyDeleteBryan, I liked the story about your mother, her rival and the flower bed.
I'd be more impressed with their colored vinyl if they varied the colors up a bit. I get tired of that bright yellow and it mixes with the normal black to make a weird brown color.
DeleteOn this day of days, the joke may or may not be on me. But here I was certain, since you had Big 10 Inch listed under "my blogs", I thought that Buster was an alter-ego you used to bandy quips back and forth with to entertain yourself and the rest of us. Color me fooled! -Organ
ReplyDeleteNope, Buster and I are not the same person. And there are a few people who can verify that since they saw us together at a steakhouse in Ohio once. We just work together now and again as a mutual admiration society. :)
DeleteErnie, this cover reminded me of "Dennis Day Sings: Christmas is for the Family" :)
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