08-Give Us Our Farm Back For Christmas
Time for another interesting batch of Christmas singles, this time focusing on country music, though there are quite a few iterations of that sound here. I tried to cover a lot of bases here with twangy 50's, countrypolitan 60's, country-rock 70's, Duke-boy 80's right up to slick 90's productions that would make the old-timers roll over in their graves. But it's all got that sound that means you have to play it on one radio station and not the other. I had a lot of records available that I could have easily slipped into this category, but then I could say that about most of the themes this year. I just put stuff into piles as best I could and called it done. Feel free to remix my selections once you've downloaded everything, that's your prerogative. You can probably also find better sounding versions for plenty of my shares this season. 45's just get beat up a lot worse than albums. I'm sure that's because albums come in a nice thick protective cardboard sleeve and 45 often come with only a paper sleeve that's frequently discarded. 50-60 years later, they can be a tough listen. But at least you'll know your listening to an authentic single. Enjoy!
1. Bill Anderson-Po Folks Christmas
2. Chet Atkins And His Guitar-Jingle Bells
3. Conway Twitty-White Christmas
4. Country Music Makers-Vocal By Wayne Brown-Merry Christmas Anyway
5. Danny Davis And The Nashville Brass-Silent Night
6. Emmylou Harris-Light Of The Stable-Stereo
7. Faron Young-Candy Land
8. Freddy Fender-Please Come Home For Christmas
9. Gary Morris-Every Christmas
10. Hank Snow-The Christmas Cannonball
11. Jack Green-I'd Be Home On Christmas Day
12. Jerry Lee Lewis-I Can't Have A Merry Christmas, Mary, (SIC) (Without You)
13. Jesse Rogers And His '49ers-Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)
14. John Kirby-Give Us Our Farm Back For Christmas
15. John Schneider-Katey's Christmas Card-Stereo
16. Kit Smith-Music By The "Buckaroos"-Christmas At Our House (Stereo)
17. Kitty Wells-Christmas Ain't Like Christmas Anymore
18. Larry Boone-Roses In December
19. Merle Haggard-If We Make It Through December
20. Mervin Shiner With Orchestra Directed By Roy Ross-I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
21. Mickey Gilley-Lonely Christmas Call
22. Ralph Emery-Music By Harold Bradley-Christmas Can't Be Far Away
23. Red Foley And The Little Foleys Shirley, Julie And Jenny-Frosty The Snow Man
24. Red Sovine-Christmas Is For Kids
25. Riders In The Sky-Riding Home For Christmas
26. Tammy Wynette-One Happy Christmas
27. Tennessee Ernie Ford-Music Arranged And Conducted By Jack Fascinato With The Jack Halloran Choir-The Little Drummer Boy
28. The Browns Featuring Jim Edward Brown-Greenwillow Christmas (Carol)
29. The Country Gentlemen-Christmas Time Back Home
30. Tom T. Hall-Let's Spend Christmas At My House
31. Webb Pierce-Christmas Times A Coming
32. Stonewall Jackson-Blue Christmas
33. Cowboy Weaver-Christmas To Me Is Just Another Day
34. Dave Dudley-Old Time Merry Christmas
35. Ferlin Husky And The Hushpuppies-Christmas Is Holy (Not A Holiday)
36. George Jones & Tammy Wynette-The Greatest Christmas Gift
37. Hank Thompson-Gonna Wrap My Heart In Ribbons
38. Mason Dixon-Sleighride
39. Reno & Smiley-Christmas Reunion
40. The Country Cavaleers And Children's Christmas Choir-A Sing Along Christmas Song
41. The Statler Brothers-Mary's Sweet Smile
42. Van Trevor-Xmas Greetings
43. Warren Smith-The Meaning Of Christmas
44. Webb Foley-Extra Christmas
45. Ernest Tubb With The Troubadettes-Christmas Island
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I love that you have Johnny $ Dollar doing a holiday safety PSA on this one.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have captured all the facets of the varied country scene in your 45 tracks!
It's a deep and wide vein of interesting country music. I had a few country artists I could choose a greeting from, but I liked that this one used his Christmas In The Country song. :)
DeleteNice one Ernie! Love "Po Folks Christmas" - definitely going to use that in future mixes! Also loving "Give Us Our Farm Back for Christmas".
ReplyDelete- Steve in PA
But do you remember Po Folks restaurants? They used to be fairly common, but I only know of one these days. I think this record was a giveaway or a souvenir from Bill Anderson's restaurants.
DeleteHi Ernie,
ReplyDeleteWhen can we send you a Christmas Card this year? That worked out well last year, it was nice seeing them come from so many places.
You can of course send me a Christmas card anytime you like, but I wasn't going to ask for them like last year. Trying to keep things a little simpler this time around. Mr. & Mrs. Ernie (Not Bert), 3801 Parkridge Circle, Sarasota, FL 34243. Thanks!
DeleteDude, you're killin' it this year. A comp a day, of all great stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I thought about what kind of blog I'd like to discover this year, and this is pretty much what I dreamed about. A big collection of singles each and every day. I think it might be a bit better if I could stick to the theme every day and avoid the filler, but I don't have that many singles to cover each theme, and the idea of doing 45 tracks each day was too attractive to pass up. :)
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