45-It's Christmas Time

Well, this is where it all ends, sort of. 45 days of 45 songs from 45 RPM records. That sort of wraps it up nicely, don't you think? I say 'sort of' because I have a few bonus things to share after this, but this is the formal end of the line. There's no real theme to all the songs here, but there is a theme that ties this to a previous share here this season. I want to see if anyone figures it out because you have to pay really close attention to what's gone on all season long. If no one figures it out in a week or so, I'll post the answer in the comments and declare myself pretty smart for making a puzzle so fiendishly complicated no one could figure it out. Either that or something so stupid that no one cared. Either way, we'll see what happens. If you're bailing out after this, I hope you had a great season, but I hope you won't. I think the bonus stuff is worth your time and it won't take too much time to get it all out there. Enjoy the tracks today!

1. Augie Rios-Orchestra And Chorus Under The Direction Of Mark Jeffrey-¿Dònde Està Santa Claus? (Where Is Santa Claus?)
2. Bill Lindsey-Winter Love
3. Brook Benton-Arranged And Conducted By Luchi DeJesus-You're All I Want For Christmas
4. Dottie Swan-Red, White & Blue Christmas
5. Honey Davis-Blue Christmas
6. Jo Stafford-Frankie Laine With Paul Weston & His Orchestra-Carl Fischer: Piano-Christmas Roses
7. Johnny Desmond With Music By Camarata-Old Fashioned Christmas (From The Alcoa Hour TV Production "The Stingiest Man In Town")
8. Michael Cavanaugh-Page Cavanaugh Orchestra-Merry Christmas Baby
9. Perry Como-Christmas Dream-Stereo
10. Ruth Lyons With Cliff Lash And His Orchestra-All Because It's Christmas
11. Tennessee Ernie Ford With Orchestra Conducted By Jack Fascinato-Little Klinker
12. Tex Williams-Winter Snow
13. The Casuals-Snowbound
14. The Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus-Arranged & Conducted By Marty Gold-Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? (From The United Artists Motion Picture "On Her Majesty's Secret Service")
15. The Lennon Sisters With Orchestra And Chorus Directed By George Cates-Merry, Merry Christmas
16. The Towne Choir-African Noel
17. The Valentines-Christmas Prayer
18. Tommy Edwards-Orchestra Conducted By LeRoy Holmes-It's Christmas Once Again
19. William Bell-Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday
20. Bobby Helms-Jingle Bell Rock (Kapp Version)
21. Bubber Johnson-Let's Make Every Day A Christmas Day
22. Jewel Lombardo-Christmas Lullaby
23. Jim Henry-Christmas Cheer
24. Jimmy Boyd With Mitch Miller & His Orchestra-Santa Claus Blues
25. Jimmy Dean-Arranged & Conducted By Don Sebesky-Yes, Patricia, There Is A Santa Claus
26. Jimmy Roselli-Arranged & Conducted By Ralph Burns-Christmas
27. Joni James-Orchestra And Chorus Conducted By Lew Douglas-Christmas And You
28. Linda Scott With Hutch Davie Orchestra & Chorus-Christmas Day
29. Mary Lou Baker-There's A Hole In My Christmas Stocking
30. Mervin Shiner With Orchestra Directed By Roy Ross-Snowy White Snow And Jingle Bells
31. Mickey Gilley-Pretty Paper
32. Mona Abboud-I Should Have Left The Light On For Santa
33. Orion-Remember Bethlehem
34. Red Sovine-Christmas Love Song
35. Ruby Wright With Cliff Lash And His Orchestra And The Dick Noel Singers-Let's Light The Christmas Tree
36. Santa's Singers-It's One Day Closer To Christmas (Please Do Your Mailing Now)
37. Tex Fletcher And Kit Stewart With The Hootenanny Orchestra-Christmas Angel
38. The Honey Dreamers With Ray Carter & His Orchestra-The Little Bell (That Just Went Ding)
39. The Three Stooges And Orchestra-I Gotta Cold For Christmas
40. Tommy Page-Christmas Without You
41. Yogi Yorgesson With Johnny Duffy And The Scandahoovians-The Christmas Party
42. Don Cornell With Chorus And Orchestra Directed By Norman Leyden-Let's Have An Old Fashioned Christmas
43. Ralph London-It's Christmas Time
44. The Anita Kerr Singers-Rise Up Shepherd And Foller
45. Jermaine Jackson-Season's Greetings

MEGA

44-The White World Of Winter

This is the collection that took me the longest to put together of all the playlists this season. I tried to grab one song for each and every year for the oldest record I had to the newest. So you get one record for each year from 1947 to 1991. That's a little bit before the advent of the 45 RPM record in 1949 thanks to some reissues of older material. And it took me a while to find something from 1991 but I eventually found something from Japan to fit the bill. I think it's a great collection that shows the evolution of the music over time, as well as the changes in production styles and sound in general. I could probably have done a bit better of a job at picking songs that were more representative of their time, but it was already taking too long as it was. I think it's a great collection of random stuff, I hope you enjoy it. You may be wondering about the traditional spoken-word track I put in for each day of the season... Well, it's included with one of the songs, you'll know it when you hear it.

(1947) Ink Spots-Vocal With Instrumental Accompaniment-White Christmas
(1948) Frank Gallagher-Dana Serenaders And Orchestra-Merry Christmas-Polka
(1949) Bill Boyd And His Cowboy Ramblers-Vocal Refrain By Bill Boyd-Up On The House Top
(1950) Art Mooney And His Orchestra-Vocal By The Art Mooney Choir-Jingle Bells
(1951) The Honey Dreamers With Ray Carter & His Orchestra-Rootie Tootie Tootie (The Kewtee Bear Song)
(1952) The Three Suns-Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
(1953) The Voices Of Walter Schumann-The Sound Of Christmas
(1954) The Ames Brothers With Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra And Chorus-There'll Always Be A Christmas
(1955) Chet Atkins And His Guitar-Christmas Carols
(1956) Domenico Savino And The Rome Festival Orchestra-Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
(1957) Fred Waring And The Pennsylvanians-Christmas Was Meant For Children
(1958) The Jingoleers-Jingle Bell Rock
(1959) Earl Grant With Chorus And Orchestra Directed By Charles Bud Dant-Christmas Card
(1960) Mitch Miller & The Sing-Along Kids And Gang-Christmas Spirit
(1961) Jimmy McCracklin-Christmas Time Pt. 2
(1962) The 4 Seasons-Arranged And Conducted By Sid Bass-Christmas Tears
(1963) The Valley Youth Chorale-Directed By Noel Regney-The Little Bell
(1964) Bobby Vinton-Arranged And Conducted: Stan Applebaum-The Bell That Couldn't Jingle
(1965) Bing Crosby-Arranged And Conducted By Sonny Burke-The White World Of Winter
(1966) The Beers Family-Three Little Drummers
(1967) Lou Rawls-A Child With A Toy
(1968) Andy Williams-It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (With Christmas Seals Intro)
(1969) Plastic Ono Band-Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For A Hand In The Snow)
(1970) Tommy Leonetti-I Remember (Christmas Time); White Christmas
(1971) Cupid-Christmas Time (Is Here)
(1972) Don McLean-Dreidel
(1973) Danny Thomas-It's Sad To Be Lonely At Christmas
(1974) Mike King-A Christmas Lul-A-Bye
(1975) Moonlion-The Little Drummer Boy-Airplay Version
(1976) Celia Tolley-Christmas Story
(1977) Bob Luman-Give Someone You Love (A Little Bit Of Love This Year)
(1978) Eagles-Please Come Home For Christmas
(1979) Saundra Steele-First Christmas (Vocal)
(1980) Lonnie Dean-For Christmas
(1981) HI FI Featuring David Surkamp & Ian Matthews-It's Almost Christmas
(1982) Firefall-Christmas In Love
(1983) Randy Andrus-Christmas (Just Isn't Christmas Without You)
(1984) Scott Grimes-I Saw Christmas
(1985) Michael Hitch-Alone At Christmas
(1986) Mike Dekle-Our Christmas Fire
(1987) Timbuk 3-All I Want For Christmas
(1988) Alexander O'Neal-Our First Christmas (Edit)
(1989) Theresa Rose-Santa Don't Forget My Mommy
(1990) Michael Finley-Christmas Each Day
(1991) Shonen Knife-Space Christmas

MEGA