Happy Independence Day to all my American friends! Hope you got the day off today like I did. Nice not to have to go to work once in a while. I've got another nice set of tunes for you today. I wanted to share with you a little story about how close I came to not having a Christmas in July this year. Up until May, I didn't have enough stuff in the pile to even bother sharing it. Then I stopped by a book store in Largo (for the locals, it's
Book Rescuers in Largo) and spent about three hours digging through a giant pile of $1 records and suddenly we were back in business. More than half the music I'm sharing this July came from records I bought that day. Lot of them were the school band samplers that you're seeing so many of every day, but there were lots of other records in the stack as well, so I knew after that day I'd be able to have a successful Christmas in July. Sometimes you're just in the right place at the right time.
1. Niles Township High School East-Girls Glee-Richard Rusch, Director-Carol Of The Bells (Winter Music Festival, 1967)
2. Northern Illinois University Wind Ensemble-A Carol Festival (Alfred's Concert Band '84, 1984)
3. Texas Lutheran College Choir-Paul Engelstad, Director-Carol Of The Drum (Sacred Music At Texas Lutheran College)
4. The Hi-Lo's With Frank Comstock And His Orchestra-Button Up Your Overcoat (The Hi-Lo's, I Presume, 1955)
5. Kenneth Bloomquist Conducting The Michigan State University Wind Ensemble-A Christmas Ballet (Significant New Literature For Concert Band-The Best Of '79, 1978)
6. Jenson Publications-A Norwegian Christmas (Overture) (Superior New Works For Concert Band-Vol. IX, 1981)
7. Hal Leonard Concert Band-Frosty The Snow Man (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
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Thanks Ernie for another great package. Love The Hi-Lo's!
ReplyDeleteUp early as usual. I found a whole stash of Hi-Lo records at the same time, and found Christmas music on two of them. Good stuff.
DeleteAh, the great feeling of finding a huge pile of cheap records you hadn't seen before! I envy you!
ReplyDeleteRight place, right time. I need to back soon. :)
DeleteHappy 4th, Ernie. Thanks for the tunes. Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by!
DeleteHappy Independence Day/Fourth of July to y'all Americans :) I happen to be a dual citizen (American Canadian) :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the duality! :)
DeleteThere's Treasure Everywhere. (Calvin and Hobbes.) About right.
ReplyDeleteAmen!
DeleteUp until now, I never would have thought of "Button Up Your Overcoat" as a Winter/Christmas song! Looking forward to hearing what the Hi-Lo's do to it. There is also a version of that song on Warren Covington and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra's volume of Decca's Dance to the Songs Everybody Knows series for future reference.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes have to go with marginal content, but I've seen it on a few Christmas albums. I put it in the same category as Moonlight in Vermont. :)
DeleteThis version of "Button Up Your Overcoat" is mostly excellent; the faux-'20's sound is a little over the top. It is amazing how their sound was down pat by this time.With Frank Comstock arranging and conducting, this selection could have easily slid onto one of their early Coliumbia albums Suddenly It's the Hi-Lo's or Now Hear This.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to have had their sound down pat before they came to Columbia, but those earlier albums are pretty hard to come by. Plenty of people don't even know they exist.
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