Christmas In July '24-Day 19
Day 19 is brought to you by Amazon Prime, where every day is a prime chance to separate you from your money. Not a whole lot of Christmas in today's share I'm afraid, but plenty of holiday-adjacent tracks. End of December is probably more of a New Year's song, but he mentions Christmas a couple of times so I left it in the Christmas pile. Feel free to retag it if you'd like. The we listen to our repeat track of the day featuring the always interesting Oscar Brand. Lastly we get the irrepressible Mrs. Mills doing a Christmas-via-commercial song for you. Anything that features Mike Sammes can't be bad, right? And I recently saw two mentions of Mrs. Mills' piano which I guess is more famous these days than she is. Paul McCartney pointed it out and played a bit in a documentary on Abbey Road Studios, and then it got a mention from Dr. Who in an episode where they traveled back in time to visit Abbey Road and meet The Beatles. Odd coincidence there, but that's the way it goes. Give 'em a listen and see what you think. Enjoy!
1. Randy Edelman-End Of December (The Laughter And The Tears, 1972)
2. Oscar Brand-The Frozen Logger (Paul Bunyan In Story And Song, 1969)
3. Mrs. Mills With The Jubilee Singers Directed By Mike Sammes-I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony) (Mrs Mills Jubilee Party, 1977)
I can't imagine anyone less likely to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony than Mrs. Mills, unless it is Florence Foster Jenkins.
ReplyDeleteAt least she let someone else do the singing. :)
DeleteEdelman: https://hitparade.ch/album/Randy-Edelman/The-Laughter-And-The-Tears-208340
ReplyDeleteBegley Jr. ($213 for the vinyl!?) https://www.amazon.com/paul-bunyan-story-song-LP/dp/B0023D1GRI
Mrs. Mills (scroll a bit) - She had a Christmas album! Has anyone posted it? http://www.mrsmills.org/mrs_mills_albums.html
Amazon sellers put ridiculous prices on things, they only have to sell one at that price, and believe it or not, the right person will sometimes come along and pay it. :( Not sure if I have her Christmas LP, doesn't look familiar.
DeleteThe Mrs. Mills Christmas album has been on my wish list for years, but I've never taken the plunge - always something else I need more. One of these days!
ReplyDeleteGood things come to those who wait...
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