Thursday, December 25, 2025

First Thing In The Morning

It's early Christmas morning, and time for my obligatory religious record of the day. This time it's a group from a Christmas college out west that I thought had a great cover and some nifty graphics on the flip side and the labels. This is The Harvester Choir-CHRISTmas (To Live Is Christ Recordings SLPS-6310 (Southwestern Assembly Of God College), Stereo). Took me a while to figure out why the band name on the front of the LP didn't match the name on the labels. I think that's because the labels reference the name of the school, or it's students (The Southwesterners), but the actual group is called The Harvester Choir. And I think every song on the LP is by some subset of the choir. There are a couple of cool doodles on the back of the LP that are well worth the price of admission here, though the record was in rough shape and didn't lay flat on the scanner bed and are thus a bit blurry. Still cool though.

1. Away In A Manger
2. Noel
3. Joy To The World
4. What Child Is This
5. O Holy Night
6. Silent Night (Swedish)
7. Drummer Boy
8. Hark, The Herald Angels
9. Jesu Bambino
10. We Three Kings
11. C. Is For Christ

MEGA

12 comments:

  1. Merry Christmas, dear Ernie and thanks again for all the great shares. Here in Cologne it is sunny and -4 degress C - no snow.

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    1. Merry christmas! Only 43 here in Santa Fe, a near record high for this date. Still cold to me.

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  2. I wish I had gone to "Christmas college." ;-).

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  3. This record is so sincere that it must be good! Love this kind of thing.

    It's almost as warm here in Ohio (37F) as it is in New Mexico.

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  4. Merry Christmas and thanks for the sharity, Ernie. It's in the low 60s across the region, here in KY. 'Til next, love and praying for y'all.

    Romans 11:33-36 KJB

    Josh

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  5. Right now (12:15 PM) here in Colorado Springs CO, it's 67 F (19.4 C) and sunny. It's not right!

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    1. Yeah, seems to be abnormally warm all over the place this Christmas day.

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  6. Oh Ernie,
    This was a real slog for me to get through. The first song was just not the kind of song that wants you "not" to remove the needle.
    It was only passable, just...
    You can tell very few, if any of these singers???, had any kind of training. If they did, enough said.

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    1. Probably just a group that sang for fun, so being perfect wasn't the point. Being good might not have been the point, either, but I bet they still had a blast singing together.

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