Thursday, January 14, 2021

57-Even More Little Bits

I hope you're really enjoying these collections of short Christmas (and Chanukah! and New Year's! And Las Posadas!) songs because I've got yet another batch of them for you today! These things are really a little bit hard to find at The Internet Archive, mostly because they aren't tagged Christmas, so you have to go looking for a specific song or a word, then dig, dig, dig until you find what you're after.  The good news is that once you find one, a whole double handful usually fall into your lap because they're all part of a series, and often multiple records across the series will have a song I want. But on the bad side, they're not consistently organized, so it's often hard to tell what tracks are where, or what sides belong to the same record.  But I think I've got it all figured out here, except for a few where I just guessed at how many tracks are on the flip side. There's not a whole lot of discographical information about these educational releases out there on the web, so I hope I'm doing my part to spread the good word about these old records that probably shaped your musical childhood in some small and probably forgotten way. Oh, of special note, the name Jack Halloran shows up on one of the labels below. Unfortunately, he doesn't appear to have sung on any of the songs I shared, but it was neat to spot a familiar name. On to the music, and enjoy!

MEGA

Update-5 Jan 2023-Added a tracklist for searchability.

1. Unknown Artist-Bom, Bom, Bom
2. Unknown Artist-O Come, Little Children
3. Unknown Artist-Carol Of The Birds
4. Unknown Artist-Las Posadas Songs
5. Unknown Artist-Piñata
6. Unknown Artist-Christmas Chant
7. Unknown Artist-I Saw Three Ships
8. Unknown Artist-The Rocking Carol
9. Unknown Artist-Now It Is Christmas
10. Unknown Artist-Pat-a-pan
11. Unknown Artist-Ring The Bells Of Christmas
12. Unknown Artist-Christmas Carols
13. Unknown Artist-We Love Christmas Day
14. Unknown Artist-Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!
15. Lawrence Lane, Nancy Carr, Ruth Slater-O Come, O Come, Immanuel
16. Nancy Carr-Christmas Dance
17. Donald Gramm-Hush, My Babe
18. Bruce Foote-Hallelujah!
19. Nancy Carr-Cradle Song
20. Virginia Speaker-Over The River And Through The Wood
21. Nancy Carr-My Candles
22. Lawrence Lane-Sweet Oranges
23. Nancy Carr-Break The Piñata
24. Unknown Artist-Snow
25. Unknown Artist-Winter Song
26. Unknown Artist-Winter Fun
27. Dorothea Brodbeck, Soprano-Marilyn Palmer, Alto-Virginia Speaker, Soprano-Christmas Hymn
28. Virginia Speaker, Soprano-Ann Andrews, Alto-Silent Night
29. Virginia Speaker, Soprano-Ann Andrews, Alto-Christmas Caroling Song















2 comments:

  1. Ernie -
    Great job unearthing Christmas music that may never have seen the light of day for decades!
    Each posting has put me in a more peaceful frame of mind - when life was quite a bit simpler, people were nicer to each other and life was (relatively) worry-free.

    Many of this year's selections have made (or will make) it into a "favorites" rotation.

    Glad you do what you do!

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  2. Thanks for the note! Glad to hear you're still enjoying the shares, almost a month now past the big day. :)

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