Society Music

Getting pretty close to Christmas here, but I've still got a lot of music to share with you. Hope you're able to keep up, I know there are many demands on your attention this time of year. Up next is another album filled with syrupy strings and smooth arrangements of the same old Christmas carols you've been hearing all season long. But in my book, more is sometimes better. Please have a go at The Stradivarius String Society-Singing Strings Herald Christmas (Lester L1002, Mono). I've been looking at this cover in the collection for years and never really paid too much attention to it, then finally one day I decided it would be a good candidate to rip and share. Sure enough, it skipped and skipped badly so I had to go and find another copy of it somewhere in the collection. Took a month or so of hunting before I was able to hunt another one down. But I got it, and that second copy had a better cover for the scanning to boot. So enjoy!

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 Wenceslaus  
11. O Holy Night  
12. We 3 Kings

MEGA

Big Bad John

Let's start off this fine Sunday before Christmas with yet another religious record. I'm sure you're sick of them by now, but I've got a lot of them and I'm going to keep pushing them on you until I run out. This one is The John Hall Family-Merry Christmas (Peace Records LST 1225, Stereo), and it's probably more of the same stuff I've been sharing with you all season. You'd hope they could come up with at least one new track, generate a tiny bit of songwriting royalties here, but no. Oh well, it's still worth a listen. Look, there's that other wreath cover I was looking for. Now what record did I want to link that to?

1. Do You Hear What I Hear
2. Oh, Little Town Of Bethlehem
3. Silent Night
4. We Three Kings
5. White Christmas
6. O, Holy Night
7. C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
8. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
9. Away In A Manger
10. We Wish You A Merry Christmas

MEGA