44-The White World Of Winter

This is the collection that took me the longest to put together of all the playlists this season. I tried to grab one song for each and every year for the oldest record I had to the newest. So you get one record for each year from 1947 to 1991. That's a little bit before the advent of the 45 RPM record in 1949 thanks to some reissues of older material. And it took me a while to find something from 1991 but I eventually found something from Japan to fit the bill. I think it's a great collection that shows the evolution of the music over time, as well as the changes in production styles and sound in general. I could probably have done a bit better of a job at picking songs that were more representative of their time, but it was already taking too long as it was. I think it's a great collection of random stuff, I hope you enjoy it. You may be wondering about the traditional spoken-word track I put in for each day of the season... Well, it's included with one of the songs, you'll know it when you hear it.

(1947) Ink Spots-Vocal With Instrumental Accompaniment-White Christmas
(1948) Frank Gallagher-Dana Serenaders And Orchestra-Merry Christmas-Polka
(1949) Bill Boyd And His Cowboy Ramblers-Vocal Refrain By Bill Boyd-Up On The House Top
(1950) Art Mooney And His Orchestra-Vocal By The Art Mooney Choir-Jingle Bells
(1951) The Honey Dreamers With Ray Carter & His Orchestra-Rootie Tootie Tootie (The Kewtee Bear Song)
(1952) The Three Suns-Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
(1953) The Voices Of Walter Schumann-The Sound Of Christmas
(1954) The Ames Brothers With Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra And Chorus-There'll Always Be A Christmas
(1955) Chet Atkins And His Guitar-Christmas Carols
(1956) Domenico Savino And The Rome Festival Orchestra-Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
(1957) Fred Waring And The Pennsylvanians-Christmas Was Meant For Children
(1958) The Jingoleers-Jingle Bell Rock
(1959) Earl Grant With Chorus And Orchestra Directed By Charles Bud Dant-Christmas Card
(1960) Mitch Miller & The Sing-Along Kids And Gang-Christmas Spirit
(1961) Jimmy McCracklin-Christmas Time Pt. 2
(1962) The 4 Seasons-Arranged And Conducted By Sid Bass-Christmas Tears
(1963) The Valley Youth Chorale-Directed By Noel Regney-The Little Bell
(1964) Bobby Vinton-Arranged And Conducted: Stan Applebaum-The Bell That Couldn't Jingle
(1965) Bing Crosby-Arranged And Conducted By Sonny Burke-The White World Of Winter
(1966) The Beers Family-Three Little Drummers
(1967) Lou Rawls-A Child With A Toy
(1968) Andy Williams-It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (With Christmas Seals Intro)
(1969) Plastic Ono Band-Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For A Hand In The Snow)
(1970) Tommy Leonetti-I Remember (Christmas Time); White Christmas
(1971) Cupid-Christmas Time (Is Here)
(1972) Don McLean-Dreidel
(1973) Danny Thomas-It's Sad To Be Lonely At Christmas
(1974) Mike King-A Christmas Lul-A-Bye
(1975) Moonlion-The Little Drummer Boy-Airplay Version
(1976) Celia Tolley-Christmas Story
(1977) Bob Luman-Give Someone You Love (A Little Bit Of Love This Year)
(1978) Eagles-Please Come Home For Christmas
(1979) Saundra Steele-First Christmas (Vocal)
(1980) Lonnie Dean-For Christmas
(1981) HI FI Featuring David Surkamp & Ian Matthews-It's Almost Christmas
(1982) Firefall-Christmas In Love
(1983) Randy Andrus-Christmas (Just Isn't Christmas Without You)
(1984) Scott Grimes-I Saw Christmas
(1985) Michael Hitch-Alone At Christmas
(1986) Mike Dekle-Our Christmas Fire
(1987) Timbuk 3-All I Want For Christmas
(1988) Alexander O'Neal-Our First Christmas (Edit)
(1989) Theresa Rose-Santa Don't Forget My Mommy
(1990) Michael Finley-Christmas Each Day
(1991) Shonen Knife-Space Christmas

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