Terrible Twos

Much like that last record, this next one was a gift from a reader. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was the same reader. But this time, I was able to improve on the share a little bit from my own collection instead of having to point you to another blog. My benefactor sent me a copy of Sounds Of A Thousand Strings-Sounds Of A Thousand Strings Play For Christmas (Crown 164, Stereo, 1959), which is nice and all, but I discovered it was an abridged edition of the original If you want this version, please be my guest and go for it. But if you want the longer version, drop down below real quick.

1. Silent Night
2. Come All Ye Faithful
3. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
4. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
5. Little Town Of Bethlehem
6. Deck The Halls
7. Joy To The World
8. First Noel
9. Good King Wenceslas
10. O Holy Night
11. We 3 Kings

MEGA

Now I suspect most of you have skipped right down here to get the complete version of this LP that was a donation to the blog. It took me some time but I was eventually able to locate an earlier release of this LP with a full twelve tracks on it. Looks like White Christmas got booted off the album at some point, probably as soon as they realized they needed to pay Irving Berlin a little slice of royalties every time they sold a copy. Cheap labels like Crown were notorious for removing tracks and reshuffling them to make a little extra money by reselling you something you already had. And I'm sure they were loathe to pay royalties on a track when there were lots and lots of public domain songs out there that didn't need to be paid for. So anyhow, this version features all the same tracks as the album above, plus White Christmas. I hope it was worth having to read my long jibber-jabber first. This is Sounds Of A Thousand Strings-Sounds Of A Thousand Strings Play For Christmas (Crown Records CST 164 Transparent Red Vinyl, Stereo, 1959). I remember having to do an awful lot of work on both of these covers just to make them a little more presentable. They made these covers out of tissue paper so that they fell apart as soon as you got them home from the store, then they got taped up over and over again through the years. I did the best I could, but you get what you get.

1. Silent Night

2. Come All Ye Faithful

3. Hark The Herald Angels Sing

4. White Christmas

5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

6. Little Town Of Bethlehem

7. Deck The Halls

8. Joy To The World

9. First Noel

10. Good King Wenceslas

11. O Holy Night

12. We 3 Kings

MEGA