Christmas In July 2019-Part 70
Wow! Part 70? Have I ever done 70 days of Christmas in July before? I don't think so, much less 70 parts squeezed into the single month. And here I am, still going. I've got some time today, I'm recording what will probably end up being the last few songs of the season, so we'll soon know what the grand total will be. It's turning out to be a great month, I hope you agree. Here are the next ten Christmas songs for you to enjoy.
1. Mouseketeer Ensemble-Holidays from Happy Birthday And Songs For Every Holiday (Disneyland DQ-1214, Mono, 1964). Don't tell the Mouse, but here's a great track that pays tribute to all sorts of different holidays.
2. Oscar Brand-The Frozen Logger from Paul Bunyan In Story And Song (Caedmon TC 1275, Stereo, 1969). I think I've shared out other versions of this song by Oscar Brand, but this one might be different from those. I wish the vinyl had been in better shape, but it was a library copy and the surface was rough.
3. Bells Of Grace-Robert L. Neumann, Director-Mrs. Fred Wilson, Organist-Jingle Bells from Bells Of Grace (Lane Recording 25779/25780, Stereo, 1969). The bells just keep going, and going, and going...
4. The Lutheran Church Of The Good Shepherd-Midge Payne, Director-A Joyous Glad Noel from Shepherd Choir 1978 (Audio Engineering Associates AEA-1221, Stereo, 1978). Those Lutherans sure have been prolific this season.
5. Laurence Naismith, Janis Paige & Fred Gwynne With Paradesters Orchestra And Chorus-Pine Cones And Holly Berries (With It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas) from Meredith Willson's Here's Love (Columbia Masterworks KOS 2400, Stereo, 1963). A rare appearance from Herman Munster at Christmas!
6. Unknown Artist-A Renaissance Christmas from Hal Leonard Presents Choral Spectrum 1990-Senior Edition (Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 2xLP HLP-60, Stereo, 1990). Another publisher's demo.
7. O'Lyn Callahan-Russian Dance from O'Lyn Volume Two-O'Lyn Plays The Yamaha Electone E-70 (Yamaha Records YR 5003, Stereo). Sort of a demo record, but not like the others. This one just shows you all the great stuff you can do with your new Yamaha organ.
8. Unknown Artist-Steps from Choral Celebration Vol. VIII (Jensen Publications JP-6400, Stereo, 1985). And another demo song.
9. Count Basie-The Swingin' Shepherd Blues from This Time By Basie!-Hits Of The 50's & 60's! (Reprise RS-6070, Stereo, 1963). Just saw Count Basie the other day in Blazing Saddles.
10. Steve Lawrence With The Don Costa Orchestra-White Christmas from Steve And Eydie Sing The Golden Hits (ABC-Paramount ABCS-311, Stereo, 1960). Bringing up the rear today is a great version of a holiday classic that showed up in the middle of this soundtrack to a TV special Steve & Eydie did.
And that's it for tonight. Hope you're still around for the last few days. It's been a long month, but the end is nigh! Here's the download link, see you back here tomorrow.
Nice collection! Not too many bell-ringers.
ReplyDeleteI'm so far behind on my Salvation Army kettle playlist that it's driving me nuts...
ReplyDeleteIt's the new mp3 player I just got...and it's just putting everything in the wrong order... Imagine Handel's Messiah getting mixed up with the Bach Christmas Oratorio and that's the situation I'm in now...
Ernie...
ReplyDeleteI believe the previous high was 58...but that was done last year...
I usually play everything at random, so I frequently get my oratorios mixed with my ballets. :)
ReplyDelete39 steps. ernie make funny.
ReplyDeletei guess by 1964 uncle walter was playing sorta fast-and-loose with the term ‘mouseketeer’. these sound more like mooseketeers singing at kids and telling them to have a good time. no tap dancing or anything. that’s what the mice would have done.
happy holidays
tap tap tappity tap tappity tap
hap hap happy
tappity tappity tap tap
holidays
something like that. by the way, for anyone who doesn’t know, there’s an absolutely great homage website for the original mickey mouse club that will tell you more than you could ever want to know about it. lots of pictures and links to videos. as it’s unofficial, the links die on a regular basis, but they get replaced. and you can learn which of the mouseketeers became 1) a convicted felon, 2) a countess, and 3) a centerfold. (hint: they were all girls.)
http://www.originalmmc.com/index.html
careful. you can waste an awful lot of time there.
I know Jimmie Dodd got religion at one point, showed up here and there on I think the Word label doing stuff.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to add that I love Pine Cones and Holly Berries. Discovered this one only a few years ago and can't understand why it isn't more popular. Also, am I the only one to find it strange that it isn't a song on its own, but always paired with It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas? It's weird to have both of them sung together towards the end. Anyway, probably just a pet peeve.
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