Christmas In July 2019-Part 42
What's the answer to life, the universe and everything? Why 42 of course! Now that we've got that out of the way, here's the music.
1. Patti Page With Orchestra And Chorus Conducted By Vic Schoen-Once Upon A Dream from Manhattan Tower (Mercury MG 20226, Mono, 1956). A stealthy Christmas track from Gordon Jenkins' revised Manhattan Tower. I think he wrote a few more songs for a TV special, and that's where this comes from. She talks about how it's Christmas in the song, even though it's still July. Pretty appropriate.
2. The Combined Choirs Of St. Mary's Visitation Church, Dickson City, Pa.-W Żłobie Leży-Lying In The Manger from Midnight Mass At St. Mary's (Dub Recording Company D.D. 1155/1156, Mono, 1965). More Christmas in Poland for you.
3. Liberace With Orchestral Accompaniment-Waltz Of The Flowers-From Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite" from Moonlight Sonata (Harmony (Columbia) HL 7157, Adridged Budget Reissue of Original LP from 1955., Mono). You can never go wrong with a little Liberace. Not too much though.
4. The Merrill Staton Choir-Winter Song from Passport To Pleasure (Columbia Special Products XTV 82095/82096 "Produced Especially For Chemstrand", Mono). I guess Chemstrand was an industrial manufacturer of synthetic fibers, and they had a large plant here in Florida at one time. That explains how this record came to be here in Florida, and I believe it's the second copy I've found.
5. Philip Jones Brass Ensemble-Christmas Oratorio-Ach Mein Herzliebes Jesulein from Brass Splendor (London Jubilee 411 955-1, Stereo, 1986). Been a while since we've enjoyed some horns.
6. Jean-Pierre Rampal, Flute & Lily Laskine, Harp-Greensleeves (Theme And Variations For Flute And Harp) from Music For Flute And Harp (Columbia/Odyssey Y 33520, Stereo, 1975). Yep, a duet with a flute and a harp. Not sure how we're going to top that.
7. Redlands High School Concert Choir And Chamber Singers-Wilbur H. Schowalter, Director-Hark Now, O Shepherds from 1972-1973 Redlands High School Concert Choir And Chamber Singers (Custom Fidelity CFS-3256, Stereo, 1973). More from this prolific institution.
8. Unknown Artist-Here We Come A-Caroling-Vol. 2 from Hal Leonard Presents Choral Spectrum 1990-Senior Edition (Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 2xLP HLP-60, Stereo, 1990). Let's see if I can restrict myself to just one demo song today.
9. Sunday Morning-I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing from Gift Of Song (No Label FTR-11303, Stereo). Your guess is as good as mine.
10. Jimmy Jenson-Jingle Bell Rock from The Swingin' Swede (aka This Is Jimmy Jenson...The Country Swingin' Swede!) (Jay Records LP-1001, Stereo). As promised, here's another Jingle Bell Rock, and it's by the great Jimmy Jenson.
And Jimmy closes out this set. Some good stuff today, hope you enjoy. Here's the download link.
while i don’t think that jimmy jenson or yogi yorgesson are particularly funny (the coen brothers did a much more effective hatchet job on the scandinavians, oh you betcha), nevertheless it’s nice to see someone trying to bring back ethnic humor, if only in the sphere of christmas music. for a long time now, the political correctness police have been trying to convince us that people aren’t funny when in fact they are. if this bothers some millennial snowflakes, so what? people insult me all the time. do you think i care? i’d go so far as to say that my presence is downright annoying many places. i don’t deny the fact. i develop thick skin. there must be a lot of material in this area that has been abandoned and could thus be posted without copyright violation. for example, is there any potential christmas-in-july music in “song of the south”? maybe using the “tenuous connection” model [south is the opposite of north; and santa claus lives at the north pole, so…] you could find some. what’s you-know-who gonna do?
ReplyDeleteI did see a copy of Guy Lombardo playing Uncle Remus Said on a 78 today, does that count?
ReplyDeleteHey, Harry Stewart was his generation's Weird Al. Yogi Yorgesson was just one of his many "politically incorrect" personas. My folks played his Hari Kari tunes every Christmas. All of the kids loved them.
ReplyDeleteThe events surrounding his untimely death at age 47 in a car accident is one of the saddest things I've ever read.
I think they're pretty funny. :)
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