02-Christmas In New Zealand-33 RPM
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Here's a second installment of 7" records that spin at the slower 33-1/3 RPM speed that was originally pushed by Columbia. The other bundles this season have all featured records that spun at 45 RPM. Occasionally a record wouldn't be marked as to the proper speed and I'd get a surprised when the needle reached the grooves. I'd then have to stop and regroup. It's an interesting collection, but much shorter than my other sets (33 records at 33 RPM versus 45 records at 45 RPM). And the relative rarity of the format compared to the 45s means I had to repeat songs and artists in the collection, so don't be surprised. The title track here is the only Flexidisc I recorded the whole season. I would have just skipped it but I liked the song so I figured I'd slip it in here. Sounds pretty good for a piece of super-think plastic. Enjoy!
1. Concert Choir Of Glassboro State College (N.J.) Under Direction Of Clarence W. Miller, Jr.-Fanfare For Christmas (Excerpt)
2. Mitch Miller And The Sing-Along Gang-Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
3. The Holy Land Christian Mission Orphan Home Choir-We Wish You A Merry Christmas
4. The Lundstroms-The Messiah Has Come
5. The Rock-Afire Explosion-Disco Christmas
6. The Spinning Wig Hats-Christmas In New Zealand (W Pleasure, W Funn)
7. Wayne Newton-It Could Have Been Such A Wonderful Christmas
8. Bob Ward At The Hammond Organ-Jingle Bells; Santa Claus Is Coming To Town; We Wish You A Merry Christmas
9. The Weybridge Carolers-Dir. James Chapman-The Bells Of Christmas Day
10. Dinah Shore-Orchestra Under Direction Of Dick Reynolds-Jingle Bells
11. Found Free-Christmas Is Jesus
12. Glen Campbell-Aircheck
13. Landmark Baptist Temple-Department 10-God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
14. Lynn Anderson-Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
15. Vic Damone-It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
16. Alfred Deller And The Deller Consort-Boar's Head
17. Concert Choir Of Glassboro State College (N.J.) Under Direction Of Clarence W. Miller, Jr.-All My Heart This Christmas Rejoices (Excerpt)
18. Maryruth Weyand-Arranged And Conducted By Fran Freese-Christmas Is A Magic Time Of Year
19. Mitch Miller And The Sing-Along Gang-The Twelve Days Of Christmas
20. Ray Conniff And The Singers-Here Comes Santa Claus
21. The Mark III-Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
22. Washington High School Acappella Choir-Mr. Philip Shaw, Director-Mr. Marc Hack, Assistant Director-Accompanist: Andra Jeffress-We Wish You The Merriest
23. Barbara M. Lewis, Organ-David Reece, Piano-O Come All Ye Faithful
24. Buddy Greene-Arranged And Conducted By Fran Freese-Choir Directed By Richard Eichenberger-Christmas Means Home
25. Dinah Shore-Orchestra Under Direction Of Dick Reynolds-The Coventry Carol
26. Oliver Brown And His Extraordinary Ukeleles-Winter Ends
27. The Holy Land Christian Mission Orphan Home Choir-In Bethlehem 'Neath Starlit Skies (In English And Arabic)-Part 2
28. Landmark Baptist Temple-Department 10-Medley: Silver Bells; The Christmas Song
29. Arranged, Produced And Directed By Carla Bley-O Christmas Tree
30. The Peaches-Why Can't Everyday Be Like Christmas
31. Barbara M. Lewis, Organ-David Reece, Piano-Silent Night
32. Concert Choir Of Glassboro State College (N.J.) Under Direction Of Clarence W. Miller, Jr.-Festive Halls Of Christmas (Excerpt)
33. The Hagers-Hee Haw Hager Happy Holiday
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From the headline, I thought you were giving us 45 records from New Zealand. But this is just as interesting, including that RCA EP we were discussing!
ReplyDeleteI really wanted to put that New Zealand song in the collection of Christmas places I did a while back, but it just didn't fit my self-imposed requirements. And Dinah is welcome anywhere I can make her fit. :)
DeleteI can't imagine what 45 records from NZ would sound like... And that one's a flexi, not sure if you can tell from the scan. Pretty good sound though, I was surprised.
Dang, Ernie, only person who works harder than you in Dec. is Santa. Thanks, and I mean it.
ReplyDeleteThe key is elves, lots and lots of elves!
DeleteErnie,
ReplyDeleteAppreciate so much, all the work you do on these and compiling them to boot. Especially appreciate the Louis/Reece cuts here. Dunno to much about David Reece, but was surprised to see his name in the folder. What I do know is, he played for The Friendly Four Quartet of Mount Airy, NC, back (probably) in the early '50s and later, for The Rangers Quartet, unsure of time frame there. Re: Mitch Miller And The Sing-Along Gang, had the album of these cuts, as a kid, good to hear them again. Miller personified what a former Chorus teacher drilled into us, make the choir sound like one voice. Who was Landmark Baptist Temple-Department 10? Oh and while I'm here, but on another share, you mean to tell me, another artist (using the term loosely) recorded Hypo, other than Gayla Peevey? LOL! Merry Christmas, love and praying for y'all.
Romans 11:33-36 KJB
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Thanks for the note. Dunno anything more about the Landmark Baptist Temple record. There are four songs on it, three of which sound about like you'd expect from a private press church record, then there's one track that sounds like a not-bad copy of The Blackwood Brothers, probably because they're copying their arrangement of, what was it, Silver Bells, I think. It's a Medley with The Christmas Song, and it's really good. Looks like it's one of the two tracks from that 7" record in here. It's a favorite this year!
DeleteThanks, Ernie. I assume, the LBT in question, is the one from Cinci?
DeleteRomans 11:33-36 KJB
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I don't know... All I had was the record, no sleeve, and the label was the same on both sides. I just used the standard titles of the songs they seem, so I'm not even sure those are what they called them. Don't think I found any trace of this one on the web, but I don't remember how much time I spent looking. At 3-5 minutes per side, I don't have a lot of downtime while the vinyl is recording.
DeleteLOL, roger on that, thanks.
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