Christmas In July 2019-Part 36

Hello, and welcome to part 36!  We're a long ways in and we've still got a long way to go, but we're pretty close to the half-way point.  Hold tight, we might experience turbulence.  Best to keep your seat belt fastened at all times.

1. Dorothy Warenskjold, Soprano, With Jack Crossan, Piano-Ave Maria from On Wings Of Song (Capitol P8333, Mono, 1955).  Pretty straightforward version, but nice.

2. Reginald Foort, F.R.C.O.-Bells Of St. Mary (Improvisation On A Theme) from Pipe Organ In The Mosque, Vol. 1 (Cook/Sounds Of Our Times 10501, Mono).  More music from the man with all the initials.

3. Redlands High School Concert Choir-Director, Wilbur H. Schowalter-A Child This Day Is Born from Redlands High School Concert Choir 1964-65 (Handel Record Mfg. H-2008 (on Sleeve) H-2009 (on Label) Blue Vinyl, Mono, 1965).  Sure is a lot of Christmas music from this school around here.

4. Polyphon Music Box-First Noel from The Charm Of The Old Music Box-Rare Old Music Boxes From The A. Hacker Collection (Yesterday's Amusements/Premier Film & Recording Corporation 13993, Mono). These must be pretty fancy music boxes.  Not the little things with the pop-up ballerina I saw as a kid.

5. Del Roper On 100 Bell Symphonic Carillon-Hallelujah Chorus from Bells Of Easter (Mass-Rowe Electromusic Corp MR-3910, Mono). I wasn't expecting to find anything on an album about Easter, but there it was, last track on the record.

6. Bethany College Choir-Elmer Copley, Conductor-Ruth Copley, Accompanist-Here We Are In Bethlehem from Bethany College Choir-Lindsborg, Kansas 1963-1964 (Stucky's Recording Service SRS-1864, Mono, 1964). Took a long time for small outfits producing these custom pressed recordings to transition over to stereo.  I guess the costs were high and the demand was low.  But it eventually happened.

7. Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York-Dimitri Mitropoulos, Conductor-Lieutenant Kijé Suite IV-Troika from Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60/Kodály: Háry János Suite (Columbia Masterworks ML 5101, Mono, 1956).  Still nothing that beats the version by Sauter-Finegan, but I guess that's not really the same game.

8. The Atlanta Children's Choir-Directed By Mr. And Mrs. Haskell Boyter-Accompanist, Miss Adele Dieckmann-O Come All Ye Faithful from Hear The Church's Song (Covenant Life Curriculum 10" 33 RPM 8536, Mono).  Short, but sweet.  I think this is a demo record for churches to learn new hymns, but this would seem to be a pretty common song to find on there.  Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of the record.

9. Unknown Artist-All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth from Hal Leonard Presents Choral Spectrum 1990-Senior Edition (Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 2xLP HLP-60, Stereo, 1990).  Am I ever going to run out of these demo record tracks?  Unlikely.  And if I do, I'll just record more.  There are still more than a dozen of them in the stack, and I brought a new one home on Saturday.

10. The Melachrino Strings And Orchestra-Greensleeves; A Foggy Day from Our Man In London (RCA Victor LSP-2608, Stereo, 1963).  A nice little medley to end today's share with.

See anything interesting in there?  I hope so.  Download it and give a listen.  I'll see you all later, I hope.