Saturday, December 06, 2025

Super Saturday Salvation 11

As promised, this entry into the Salvation Army telethon today is very similar to the previous entry, only it's been reformatted as a radio show. I think that's how the whole series got it's start, it was a radio presentation and only later did it become more like a regular album. I didn't even know I had something different with this record until I was almost done with all of the ripping and scanning of these records. I was trying to tag the files of the other version of this release, and the tracks just weren't lining up with the names on the scan I had made. I thought maybe I had the wrong record in the sleeve until I went back and looked at the actual records in my collection. Like many of these entries, I had more than one copy in the library, in this case three. And two of those were the standard home version. But I had inadvertently scanned this version without realizing it was any different. A close examination revealed the info about it being radio shows and having slightly different tracks. So I went back to the beginning and recorded the whole thing start to finish, then scanned one of the other album covers so that I now had a complete set. I love finding little surprises like that and being able to share them with you. This is Roger Wagner Conducting The Sinfonia Orchestra, The California Boys' Choir And The L.A. Schools Girls' Choir With Burl Ives-The Children At Christmas-1977 Radio Program (Army Of Stars, The Salvation Army, Western Division, Community Relations Department, KM 1350, Quad, 1977). Discogs doesn't know about the existence of this special radio version, but it does mention a radio version of the previous entry in the series from 1976. Anybody got a copy of that one?

1. The Children At Christmas
2. Burl And The Boys At Christmas
3. Reflections By Starlight

MEGA

2 comments:

  1. Fascinating that there were two different versions. That 1949 program I transferred was clearly designed for radio; this one as well. I wonder how (and to whom) they distributed the other versions.

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    1. I wonder if the home versions came later, and there are radio-program versions of all of them. They'd be pretty rare.

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