The Best From July 2022

I have been somewhat remiss in sharing these best-of collections from my Christmas in July celebrations. The last best-of I gave you was from way back in 2021, so it's time to catch that up just a little bit with this look back at the best music from July of 2022. Looking down the tracklist for this one, I can tell this was the year I managed to get a lot of production music albums that were designed for radio station use. Those are usually short tracks that would get played behind seasonal ads or to help fill out the hour to prevent dead air. Because they're so short I was able to squeeze a lot of them into the list so it looks like a lot of music. If you like what you hear here, you can always dive into the archives and download all the shares from July of 2022, I believe they're all still there for the taking. I'm too lazy to link them all, but you should be able to find them with a minimum of searching. The artwork is a detail from a painting I saw a while back in the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts (the one in Florida, not Russia). Looks like I didn't take a picture of the whole painting, or of the label next to it, so I can't tell you who or what this is. I'll have to head up there soon and get the missing info. Looks like I took the picture a couple years ago, so I'm probably due for another visit.

1. Kay Lande-The Man With The Merry Ho-Ho-Ho-Edit
2. Frank Hunter And His Orchestra-Christmas In The Valley
3. Joanne Mackell-Christmas Day
4. Patti Page-Pretty Snowflakes
5. Dear Mr. President-Who Killed Santa Claus?
6. Bobby Troup-I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
7. Mac Davis-Christmas Carol
8. Red Nichols And The Augmented Pennies-Cool Tango
9. The Calvin Handbell Ringers-Robert Ivey, Director-Fum, Fum, Fum
10. Trendsetter-Deck The Halls (Logo)
11. Pinkard & Bowden-Let's Put The 'X' Back In Christmas
12. Hagood Hardy-Wintertime
13. Donna McKechnie, Margo Sappington, Baayork Lee-Turkey Lurkey Time
14. Meiko Miyazawa, Piano-Christmas-Day Secrets
15. Dennis Farnon And His Orchestra-Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
16. Unknown Harpist-Greensleeves
17. The Sun Valley Trio-Sleigh Ride
18. Armando Trovajoli-Christmas Night
19. Ferron-Snowin' In Brooklyn
20. The Sandals-Ski Bum
21. The Buddy Weed Quartet-Snow Mountains
22. Classroom Materials Company-Jingle Bells
23. Mickey Katz-Grandma's Draidel
24. Dr. John-Xmas In New Orleans (Vocal)
25. Walt Brown With Bill Collins-The Marvelous Toy
26. Tyree Glenn-Conductor: Sy Oliver-Cold Winter Nights
27. Willie Rodriguez With Chuck Sagle And His Orchestra-Moonlight In Vermont
28. The Production Garden-Looking Great/Christmas
29. Hugh Downs Accompanied By Mundell Lowe And His Friends-I Wonder As I Wander
30. Harpers Bizarre-Snow
31. Warren Covington And His Marching Band-Winter Sports
32. Joe & Eddie-Go Tell It On The Mountain
33. The International Staff Band Of The Salvation Army-Conducted By Colonel Bernard Adams-The Message Of Christmas
34. Montreal Lithuanian Choir-Linksmų Kalėdų/Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noël
35. Wally Whyton-When Winter Comes
36. Airforce Broadcast Services-We're The Center Of Everything This Christmas-Vocal
37. Buddy Hackett-Dear Santa Claus
38. Trendsetter-Snowfall Magic
39. Billy Rowland And His Thumbtack Piano-Button Up Your Overcoat
40. The Arcadia Choir-Barth Dowling, Director-Introit: Fanfare For Christmas Day
41. The Meddiebempsters-Winter Wonderland
42. Trendsetter-Orchestrated Pattern (Christmas) (Joy To The World)
43. William B. Tanner Company-Auld Lang Syne

MEGA