Thursday, January 16, 2025

Christmas Bonus 5

This is the last collection of Christmas singles I have for you this season made with new finds (there is one more completely superfluous collection of stuff tomorrow if you're feeling up to it though). Once again, it's mostly stuff that I found once the season had already begun and everything had already been sorted into themes and prepped for sharing. So there's stuff here that could have easily been slotted into a theme elsewhere but I didn't own it at the time. It was a really great year for finding some really rare Christmas singles, possibly the best one I've ever had, and I found it all locally without having to spend a dime at Discogs! And big thanks to friend-of-the-blog Laurie for sending me a large care package of singles I didn't have as well! It's hard for people to find records I don't already have, yet she managed to send me a dozen or so that I'd never seen before. Now I'm sharing the Christmas bonanza with you. It's been a great year all around and I appreciate those of you who are still with me after fifty days of Christmas sharity. As somebody once said, what a long strange trip it's been! Enjoy!

1. Clarice And Christian-You Must Believe In Santa Claus
2. Hank Crawford-Arranged And Conducted By Don Sebesky-Winter Wonderland
3. Imelda-I Love Christmas
4. Joe Basham-Santa's Southern Visit
5. Joe Gumin-Jingle Bells (In Six Languages)
6. Lane Brody-It's Another Silent Night
7. Lawrence Welk And His Champagne Music-Jingle Bells
8. Mary Knies-Dubois County Christmas
9. Pop Holiday-Send A Friend Some Snow For Christmas
10. Robert Rheims Organ & Chimes-Silent Night
11. Ronnie Rinard-Merry Christmas Everyone
12. Seeburg Musicians-O Come All Ye Faithful (DS)
13. The Regency Choir, John McCarthy-Conductor-Three Wise Men, Wise Men Three
14. The Somerset Strings-Silent Night, Holy Night
15. The St. Charles Boys Choir-Paul Baker Orchestra-Miracles Of Christmas
16. Vic Barrel-White Christmas
17. Betty Wright & Family-2nd Chapter Of The Book Of Matthew (The First Christmas)
18. Cassietta George-Silent Night
19. Cindy Pelletier-Christmas Candle-Instrumental
20. Don Vinson-Santa Claus Is Coming To Our Town
21. Eddy Howard & His Orchestra-When Christmas Rolls Around
22. Girls Of The Golden West-C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
23. Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra And Chorus-White Christmas
24. Jerry Vale-Holiday Greetings 1
25. Johnny Garcia Y Su Trio Orquidea-Rafite Oli Julian-Direccion: Mike Acevedo-Mi Pascua Y Navidad
26. Johnny Mathis-Arranged & Conducted By Ernie Freeman-Calypso Noel (With Christmas Seals Intro)
27. Roger Williams-Orchestra Directed By Marty Gold-Jingle Bells
28. The Andrews Sisters With The Robert Mitchell Boys Choir-Orchestra Under The Direction Of Lynn Murray-Silver Bells
29. The Barbara Anton Singers-Arranged & Conducted By Morty Jay-The Candles Of St. Lucia
30. The Country Gentlemen-Jingle Bells
31. The Modern Jazz Quartet With Orchestra Conducted By Gunther Schuller-England's Carol (Part II) Based On "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"
32. The Smurfs-Christmas In Smurfland
33. The Van Dykes-Christmas Forever (Reprise)
34. Tommy B. & The Rebels-Santa Claus Is Back In Town (Instrumental)
35. Unknown Artist-Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
36. Vel-Mars-Jingle Bells
37. William Dell And Wee Jams-I Pray On Christmas (Instrumental)
38. Ed Sullivan Presents Music Of Christmas-Jingle Bells
39. Evita-Santa Claus Viene A La Ciudad
40. Julius LaRosa-Conducted By Archie Bleyer-Silent Night
41. P.J. Proby, Conducted By Arthur Greenslade-White Christmas
42. Boots Randolph-I'll Be Home For Christmas
43. Have A Jewish Christmas...?-The Party
44. Seymour (The Heartbeat Trumpet) With Chimes And Organ-Silent Night
45. Dinah Shore-Closing

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Posted by Ernie at 1/16/2025 04:00:00 PM

12 comments:

  1. HansThursday, January 16, 2025 5:29:00 PM

    Thank you so much for the last 50 days. Maybe exhausting for you, but certainly not for us! We'll be enjoying this for weeks to come. Thanks again......Hans and Betty

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    1. ErnieFriday, January 17, 2025 6:43:00 AM

      It's a lot of work, but I think it's worth it to be able to hear all these great Christmas singles. So much stuff here that I've had in the collection for a while but have never been able to enjoy. Now I can listen to it whenever I please. :)

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  2. BusterThursday, January 16, 2025 6:35:00 PM

    Great job on this - you have outdone yourself! Amazing work.

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    1. ErnieFriday, January 17, 2025 6:44:00 AM

      Thanks for your unending support, Buster, this year and every year!

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  3. Ethan PraterThursday, January 16, 2025 11:02:00 PM

    Wow - just wow. And thank you. An epic year, in an era when I thought maybe things were tapering off. I confess that the variety occasionally caught me off guard - in some years I longed for less Nutcracker, while this year some of the little kid ones weirded me out more than usual, plus more journeys into '70s disco-esque than I remember from the past decade or so. But I love the compilation vibe, ultimately the variety with a bit of theme - so much made this year a great one. Merry Christmas and thank you!

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    1. ErnieFriday, January 17, 2025 6:45:00 AM

      Oh, things are tapering off. It gets a little harder every year to come up with something new and different, and reasonably good. Some years lately are all local music and gospel records that no one has heard of before, and next year is liable to go back to that. But this was a banner year. :)

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  4. RecordCollectorFriday, January 17, 2025 4:56:00 AM

    And again thank you very much for this great selection Ernie! Ik keeps gettin' better and better :-))

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  5. YuleTideRecordsSaturday, January 18, 2025 12:05:00 AM

    Starting here and making my way back through your posts this season! Ones I love: Cassietta George (never heard the single version of this!) Hank Crawford Boots, Andre Sisters, Mathis (love these intros) Smurfs. New to me that I love: modern jazz quartet (know them just not this) Vel-Mars (soooo good) Pj Proby, Joe Gumin, Vic Barrel, the ed Sullivan (put off getting this but this song is so good) and the Seymour. Some other good stuff but those are the ones of note for me.

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    1. ErnieMonday, January 20, 2025 6:43:00 AM

      You're gonna be busy for a while if you're working backwards. Enjoy! :)

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  6. AnonymousSaturday, January 18, 2025 9:10:00 PM

    Thank you once again Ernie! May the vinyl gods surprise us all and shower you with more undiscovered goodies. All other gods are equally welcome and encouraged to bless you with treasures. Thank you Ernie, enjoy your time off! -Organ

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