For Betters Or For Worse

Some days I really just have no idea what is in my collection and what's not. Two years ago I shared a record that was the third entry in a short series of Christmas records put out by a small grocery chain up north. I had no idea that I already had the second entry in the series right there in my collection all along, just waiting to be rediscovered. I've hunted and hunted and I don't think I have the first record in the series, but I'm going to keep looking. I know it's out there and I have every intention of finding it one of these days, and at a reasonable price. (I'm friends with a record dealer on FB and he has two copies, but I just couldn't bring myself to pay his price knowing that I found two of them for a buck or so each. I'm cheap, what can I say?) Like Walt Harper two years ago, Harold Betters was a jazz musician centered in the Pittsburgh area who released quite a few records on the same Gateway label that produced this record I have for you today. He even appears to have hit the Hot 100 at one time in 1964 according to this Wikipedia article (which doesn't mention either Christmas album among his discography, though Discogs does). I think it's a very enjoyable album and not something you're going to come across every day. Please download and enjoy Harold Betters-Open Pantry Has Betters Again This Christmas (Gateway for Open Pantry GQP-1034, Stereo, 1968).

1. Little Drummer Boy  

2. Joy To The World  

3. Hark The Herald Angels Sing  

4. Winter Wonderland  

5. Silver Bells  

6. Jolly Old St. Nicholas  

7. O Holy Night  

8. All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth  

9. O Come All Ye Faithful  

10. We Wish You A Merry Christmas  

MEGA