07-Christmas In The World
Today is a very special share filled with Christmas songs about all sorts of different places, with a special section of songs for Japan. There are songs here celebrating Christmas in a wide variety of places from US cities such as Miami, Chicago, Poughkeepsie, Santa Fe, Washington DC and San Francisco, US states such as Texas, Connecticut, Georgia and Hawaii, as well as countries such as Vietnam, Mexico, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Christmas Island (which is technically an Australian territory, so there's that) & Ireland. Plenty of generic locations feature here, too, like Heaven, a gingerbread house, a valley and another non-gingerbread house. Oh, and that special batch for Japan features the only song that's actually from another country. Paul Anka released a single called Christmas In Japan for the Japanese market exclusively (with only extremely limited distribution in the US). He's backed by a number of Japanese musicians on the single, I think you'll really enjoy it. I've added a McGuire Sisters track about Christmas in Japan as well as a Harry Stewart song done as his Japanese character Harry Kari. It may seem a little racist today, but there are worse things out there, trust me. This is one of my favorite collections so don't miss out, download today!
1. Betty Johnson-Orchestra Conducted By Charles Grean-Winter In Miami
2. Bobby Hood-Mexico Winter
3. Brother Lee & The Lady Sher-Will Santa Come Out On The Rural Route
4. Burl Ives-The Gingerbread House
5. Charley Pride-Christmas In My Home Town
6. Dick Roman-Arranged & Conducted By Alan Lorber-Christmas Village
7. George Owens-Christmas At The Opry
8. Ginny Wicker-Christmas In Heaven
9. Grinder Nova And His Pit Stop Mariachi Band-Tijuana Christmas
10. Johnny And Jon-Christmas In Viet Nam
11. Lisa Atkinson-It's Christmas In Old Chicago Town
12. Loy Blanton-Christmas At The Jersey Lily Lounge
13. Marie Chabot-Connecticut Christmas
14. Patti Page With Vic Schoen & His Orchestra-Under The Sun Valley Moon
15. Paul Anka With Nobuo Hara And His Sharps & Flates, Chorus By The Motomichi Ito & His Liliuo Rhythm-Airs, Arranged & Conducted By Gan-ichi Hanma-Christmas In Japan
16. Rick And The Cast Of Idiots-Merry Christmas (Wherever You Are)
17. Roy Rogers And Dale Evans With Foy Willing And The Riders Of The Purple Sage-Christmas On The Plains
18. Stan Kenton And His Orchestra-Vocal By Ann Richards-Winter In Madrid
19. The Cones Sisters-A Merry Texas Christmas, You All!
20. The Di Mara Sisters-Santa's Italian Wife
21. The Roy Meriwether Trio-Jingle Bells (Part I)
22. The Sullivan Family-A Jerry Sullivan Song-Merry Christmas From Vietnam
23. Tom Holbrook-Christmas In Mexico
24. Van Ritshie & Matt Jordan Band-Christmas In Poughkeepsie
25. Van Trevor-Christmas In The Country
26. Webb Pierce-Christmas At Home
27. Carlton Showband-Christmas Time In Innishfree
28. Carmol Taylor-Georgia Christmas
29. Four Aces Featuring Al Alberts With Orchestra By Jack Pleis-Jingle Bells
30. Freddy Fender-Christmas Time In The Valley
31. Harry Kari And His Six Saki Sippers-Oh! Oh! Don't Ever Go
32. Keely Smith-Orchestra Conducted By George Greeley-Christmas Island
33. Kelly Schoppa-Merry Texas Christmas
34. Leon Russell-Christmas In Chicago
35. Li'l Wally-Hawaiian Christmas
36. Maura Sullivan-Christmas Eve In Washington (WMZQ Version)
37. Rudy Veltri-Christmas In The World
38. The McGuire Sisters With Orchestra Directed By Neal Hefti-Honorable Congratulations
39. Tony And Mack-Christmas In Paree
40. Tony Martin With The Interludes And Henri René's Orchestra-Christmas In Rio
41. Vic Damone, Arranged & Conducted By Norm Geller With The Sal Carson Orchestra-Christmas In San Francisco (Live Performance)
42. Kid Creole & The Coconuts-Christmas On Riverside Drive
43. Al Hirt-Christmas Greetings
44. Lawrence Welk And His Champagne Music, Vocal By The Lennon Sisters-Santa From Santa Fe
45. The Voices Of Walter Schumann-Christmas In Killarney
Update-5 Dec 24-New ZIP file to truncate some of the long filenames causing troubles in the download. Should be better now.
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A really clever idea with some very unusual records! I wonder what motivated Paul Anka to record in Japanese (money?).
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think money had to be the deal. Tough record to find. Buddy of mine bought it online from Japan and sold it to me when he got a better copy. I was pretty excited to finally get a copy. It came out nicer than the version I had from a Japanese reissue CD. :)
DeleteThank you! Listening through a daily batch of 45 largely unknown Christmas songs is really exciting and fun. To me this was the most enjoyable share of yours so far this season. I shared my 13th Christmas-compilation on Thanksgiving (which may appear as the 27th in the USA, because of different timezones:). This year I think maybe about 40-45% of the material originates from your blog + the cover art. Here's the link (for anyone interested):
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dreamweapons.net/2024/11/dream-weapons-present-xmas-delights.html
Glad you liked it, and thanks for the share link!
DeleteThank you Ernie- great collection! I've always loved your regional records over the years that talk about Christmas in a certain place. My favorites so far are "Christmas in Vietnam" (nice vocals), and "Christmas At The Jersey Lily Lounge". Many people don't realize how much of the state is a rural/agricultural region ("The Garden State"): Cowboy culture thrives, with popular rodeos. A country song about New Jersey is cool to hear!
ReplyDelete-Steve in PA
It's a weird state, I'll give it that. And I think with a bunch of research you could do a decent sized collection of Christmas in Vietnam records. People seem to want a lot of money for them though...
DeleteThanks Ernie! Hey has anyone ever had an issue with unzipping folders and there's a problem with file titles being too long and it won't process it? In my case there's 90 tracks in this one but I only get 88 unzipped. I think it's the two "Paul Anka with Nobou Hara" tracks.
ReplyDelete-Organ
Yes, it's happening here and there. Old software truncated filenames to prevent this being an issue, but not the new software. You can try unzipping it to a spot closer to the root of C:/ or whatever drive you want, that might allow it to finish. If not, I can go in and modify the share.
DeleteI went ahead and modified it. Should have any issues now.
DeleteThanks Ernie! I was late to your advice, but you were correct. I was not in my downloads directory on the C: drive. I moved it back and tried it and it unzipped fine. Thank you for the advice and the revision!
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