If all has gone well today, we're now in our little house that we'll be sharing with my wife's family for the next two weeks. We're hoping to have many adventures and share Christmas together out here in the West. It's a new experience for me, I'm used to wearing shorts and going to the beach for the holiday, instead we'll be bundling up in front of the fireplace and going out wearing multiple layers against the cold. Who knows, we might even get a White Christmas. I'll try to keep you updated here as interesting things happen, and the Christmas posts should keep going right on as if I were slaving away in front of a hot computer monitor. To remind me a little bit of home, here's a remaster in stereo of an album I first shared back in
2005. It was available for digital download for a while, but I think it's gone again. I was really excited to find this stereo copy about three months ago after being on the hunt for twenty years. The sleeve was a regular mono copy, so I'm really glad I checked. This music from tropical Hawaii will surely remind me of my tropical Florida home. This is
The Surfers-
Christmas From Hawaii (Stereo) (HiFi SR 410, Stereo, 1959). PS-I looked for some Christmas music from Santa Fe and I couldn't find anything. Closest I could find was a single song, Santa From Santa Fe by Lawrence Welk with The Lennon Sisters, and I've shared that with you
before.
1. Here Comes Santa In A Red Canoe
2. White Christmas
3. Deck The Halls
4. Mary's Boy Child
5. Hawaiian Santa
6. Adeste Fidelis
7. Come Dance And Sing
8. Jingle Bells
9. Away In A Manger
10. Winter Wonderland
11. Silent Night
12. Meli Kalikimaka
13. Oh Holy Night
14. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
MEGA
Update: Whoops, had the wrong link in there. Should be better now. Sorry.
that may not be the correct link, Ernie!
ReplyDeleteWhoops, had that all screwed up. Should be better now. Thanks for mentioning it.
DeleteGreat mix up. Two great Hawaiian Christmas albums in one post. It was meant to be :-)
DeleteNot sure how I did that. Now I need to make another post for the 'wrong' one...
DeleteHi Ernie,
ReplyDeleteGlad Meredith and yourself arrived safe and sound In Santa Fe. I just remember visiting the old town there.
And yes, Santa from Santa Fe is a real toe tapper.
There is nothing like to be bundled up during the Christmas season. Christmas is more like Christmas when the cold air bits your...
I always wished it was colder in California than it was during Christmas, like it was in those holiday old films. Sad for me, but happy for others I guess. So enjoy, cold nights, warm fires, and those fondest memories for years to come. Besides all the new things in everyway you will experience this year.
Three and a half hours late, but we made it. Not as cold here as we expected, I was in short sleeves and felt fine. But the sun is down now and it's headed rapidly into the thirties. Luckily, we have a fireplace. :)
DeleteThere's been snow on the ground here in Ohio since Thanksgiving. It would seem odd to me to celebrate Christmas in a warm climate - although I have been in Florida many times in December.
ReplyDeleteThis is a cool record. I like the pink Christmas tree.
I remember besides the standard green Christmas trees, they sold flocked Christmas trees in pink, light or pastel blue, and of course white. Then one year someone was selling pastel green I guess it was called.
DeleteI just remember begging my mother one year for a flocked Christmas in white. She bought one only that one time. I still remember her comment all these years later. At least we do not have fallen needles all over the floor. The next year, it was back to a green Christmas tree.
No snow here in Santa Fe, at least on the ground here near town. I can see it on the mountains to the East. Hope to drive up that way at some point in case in doesn't snow at our altitude while we're here.
DeleteI think they're reproduced all those old tree styles, so you can decorate like it's 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, whatever you want !
DeleteGood Evening Ernie, here is one that has never been back on your posts. As you had to catch a Air Plane and you did not to our findings place a New Link ro this Red Plastic Record.... Please & Thank You, so could we have a new Link for this one.. Thanks Stan Thursday, November 23, 2017
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I get a lot of requests to share my old shares here at the blog, some of them fairly frequently. However, I think this is the first time I got a request for something that never even got a comment the first (in 2007) or the second (in 2009) time around. I had just about forgotten about it myself, though I knew I had shared something by Mundell Lowe before. I'm not aware of any other Christmas music he released under his own name, though as a long-time session musician, he must have played on uncounted releases by other artists through the years. This being a flexidisc, I'm sure the sound is only marginal, and since I recorded it ten years ago, the recording and bit-rate may not be too up-to-snuff either. So take it for what it's worth. This is The Mundell Lowe Ensemble-The Sounds Of Christmas (Ameridisc Red Flexidisc 7" 33 RPM, Mono).
1. Medley: Adeste Fidelis, O Little Town of Bethlehem, The First Noel, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, Silent Night and Joy To The World
Remind me when I get back home to my collection after the new year, then I can repost it. Didn't realize that one was no longer in circulation. I seem to recall doing quite a few flexis in one of those years and none of them are in circulation here at the blog at the moment. I need to bring them all back.
DeleteYour first opportunity to use your laptop during your Santa Fe Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI could have done without it. :(
DeleteHi, Ernie
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about the file format for this post. I am excited to have a digital version of this record. Thanks for posting it! However these seem to be .flac files. Don't you usually post .mp3's (not a huge deal one way or the other)? Maybe I missed something...
Welcome to the party! Yes, I've shared everything thing in FLAC this year. It was a change that needed made. If you have trouble playing them back, you may need to change your music software or try a converter to change the music to FLAC format. I use MediaMonkey for both.
DeleteFashionably late!
DeleteBetter late than never!
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