24-Suddenly Winter
If my astronomical calculations are correct, today is the day the Earth's North Pole is at it's greatest tilt away from the sun, which makes it the first day of winter. Is that the right definition? I thought it was the day we reached maximum distance from the Sun, or aphelion, but that's something else entirely and happens in July. My school days are long behind me and it gets harder and harder to remember all the fine details of such things. I'm lucky these days if I can remember which remote turns on the TC and which one controls the VCR. (Kidding, I don't have a VCR. I do still have a DVD player, but it predates HDMI so it's not hooked up to anything at the moment.) Anyhow, I'm taking a bit of a break from the Christmas music today and instead I'm concentrating on some Winter music. There are still a few holiday tracks here, and some of the winter tracks certainly reference the holidays that fall at this time of year, but the emphasis in on the season of Winter. I think it's a great collection of stuff with a few tracks that have really grown on me in the past year. I'm sure you'll enjoy it, but be sure to keep plenty of hot chocolate at hand in case you get too cold.
1. Dax Xenos-A Winter Song
2. Keyboard And String Ensemble-Alpine Winter
3. Arthur Godfrey And All The Little Godfreys-Orchestra Under A. Bleyer-White Christmas
4. Betty Everett-Just Another Winter
5. Bill Pursell-Our Winter Love
6. Blood, Sweat And Tears-Sometimes In Winter
7. Bobby Helms-Those Snowy, Glowy, Blowy Days Of Winter
8. Bobby Wayne Loftis-Winter's Coming On
9. Charlie McCoy-Blue Christmas
10. Clarence Reid-Winter Man
11. Connie Francis-Arranged & Conducted By Alan Lorber-Blue Winter
12. Crazy Otto And His Honky-Tonk Piano-Medley: Sleigh Ride, Winter Wonderland, White Christmas
13. David Buskin-Strings Arranged And Conducted By Glenn Spreen-The Winter Comes
14. Deniece Williams-Do You Hear What I Hear?
15. Dian Fontes-That Winter Day
16. Domenico Savino And The Rome Festival Orchestra-O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
17. Duane Dee-Cold January Morning-Stereo
18. Firehouse Five Plus Two-Jingle Bells
19. Geater Davis-Long Cold Winter
20. Hoyt Axton-Lion In The Winter-Stereo
21. Hugo Winterhalter And His Orchestra-Sleigh Ride
22. Jean-Claude Darnel Chante Avec Les Enfants-Flic Floc
23. Johnny Mathis-Long Winter Nights
24. Larry Muhoberac With The Recordets-Angels We Have Heard
25. Linda Laurie-All Winter Long
26. Mantovani And His Orchestra-Winter World Of Love
27. Max Bygraves, Music Director: Johnny Douglas-Summer Green And Winter White
28. Redwood City-Winter's Night (Stereo)
29. Spinners-Produced, Arranged And Conducted By Michael Zager-The Winter Of Our Love
30. The Choir-It's Cold Outside
31. The Impressions-Long, Long Winter
32. The Pixies Three-Cold Cold Winter
33. The Tremeloes-Suddenly Winter
34. Bob Gibson And The Snowmen-Super Skier [Expurgated]
35. Donna Lynn-Arranged And Conducted By Jack Wolf And "Bugs" Bower-That Winter Weekend
36. Duran Duran-Winter Marches On
37. Dust & Ashes-The Winter's Over
38. Felice Taylor-Winter Again
39. Freddy Fender-(You Came In) The Winter Of My Life
40. Neil Hefti-Winter Song
41. Spike Jones And The City Slickers-Winter
42. The Ames Brothers With Orchestra Directed By Ray Bloch-Winter's Here Again
43. The Carlton Show Band-Silent Night
44. The Jerry Fielding Orchestra Featuring Vocal By Tony Fontane And Ruth Olay-Button Up Your Overcoat
45. Jimmy Roselli-Season's Greetings
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Hi Ernie,
ReplyDeleteJust downloading this now. I bet, at least for me, this is the best playlist so far. Once I hear it, I will let you know for sure, but I doubt I will change my mind. It is always nice to have alternatives to play with your Christmas selections.
It's pretty good, but I don't know if it's the best. There are plenty of good tracks here, but not enough talk of Santa and mistletoe.
DeleteThe Choir was a Cleveland area garage band that I used to follow when I was in high school! Some of the members later formed the Raspberries with Eric Carmen.
ReplyDeleteCool! Local boys done good. :)
DeleteAnd that song is in the personal Top 100 of the friend of mine that is on the Songs of the '60's Facebook group.
DeleteMany thanks again for so many new xmas songs. I Like That Winter Weekend · Donna Lynn, The Impressions - Long, Long Winter, The Choir - It's Cold Outside, Linda Laurie - All Winter Long, Jean-Claude Darnel - Flic Floc, Bobby Helms - Those Snowy, Glowy, Blowy Days Of Winter, Bill Pursell - Our Winter Love
ReplyDeleteLots of good ones here for sure!
DeleteErnie – just wanted to say a massive Thank You for the amazing collections of Xmas tunes over the years. We sometimes like to make seasonal mixtapes for our mates, and your sets always provide amazing/wonderfully weird songs. Congratulations on 20 amazing years and happy Christmas.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the note, and for stopping by again and again and again. :)
DeleteI second those thanks for all you do every year!! Congrats on another great year.
ReplyDeleteEverybody needs a hobby, right? :)
DeleteGreat Winter playlist here; you brought a whole bunch of new songs to my attention here that I will try to elaborate on later. Will plan on playing some of these cuts the next several weeks throughout the season.
ReplyDeleteYou can probably get more mileage out of Winter songs than Christmas songs. :)
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