Christmas In July 2026-Part 14
1. Robert Douglas As Narrator, With The Children's Hour Orchestra And Singers Conducted By Larry H. Laberer-Winter To Spring (All About The Seasons, 1963)
A track that's brand new to Christmas in July from an album that was new to me this year. Hard to find these kiddie albums and even harder to find them in decent shape. This one was pretty nice. There will be at least one more track from this one for you later in the season.
2. The New Hope Singers-Lea Ann Yarbro-Reading (New Hope For You!)
A short spoken word from another new record. The best is yet to come from this LP so keep checking back.
3. Hope Publishing Company, Somerset Press, Agape-It's Christmas (The Very Best Sacred Choral Music, 1979)
Please buy our arrangements! Here's what they sound like.
4. Poldi Zeitlin, Pianist-Hobby Horse (Tchaikovsky 24 Pieces For The Piano-Masterwork Series For The Young Musician, 1952)
Another short track from this piano album. Somewhere I have a David Rose piece called The Sad, Sad Rocking Horse that I think would cozy up nicely with this one.
5. Reginald Foort, F.R.C.O.-Nutcracker Suite: Dance Of The Flutes (Waltz And Ballet, 1956)
A second bit of The Nutcracker from Mr. Foort and his organ.
6. Lloyd Lindroth And His Quartet-Holiday For Strings (Harpist's Bazaar)
The track from the LP cover shown up top. I was excited when I found it a month or so ago, but then I discovered that I'd shared out the track years ago. Then two weeks later I saw another copy of the album at another thrift store. Some days I feel like I've been sharing out these types of tracks for too long.
7. Norman Luboff Choir-New Symphony Orchestra Of London-Leopold Stokowski, Conductor-Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Hallulajah!-The World's Favorite Choruses, 1977)
Always good to hear a little something from the Norman Luboff Choir, even if it's on a bargain collection.
8. The Merrill Stanton Voices-That Man Over There (Meredith Willson's Here's Love, 1963)
A second group that's good to hear from, though I don't think these guys released any Christmas albums in their career. Unless I'm forgetting about something...
9. Gooding Amusement's German Organ-Petersburger Schlittenfahrt Gallop (Christmas With The Gooding Band Organ, 1984)
I'm sure I mentioned before that I've shared out tracks from this LP before, but I never flipped it over and grabbed this one. I probably didn't know that the title translates to Petersburg Sleigh Ride. Now I know that so I'm sharing it with you. Enjoy!
10. Jenson Publications-Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Jenson Publications Presents...Warner Bros. Finest For Concert Band, 1983)
And that brings us along to the last song of the day, the second demo of the day trying to sell you their musical arrangement. They make nice filler but I do get tired of sharing them. They probably wouldn't be so bad if I didn't constantly point them out. Anyhow, that's the end of today's sharity. Give it a download and a listen, we'll see you again tomorrow, same blog time, same blog channel!
You have found three different copies of "Harpist's Bazaar"? That's bazaar.
ReplyDeleteYep. You gotta dig a lot of records though. :)
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I've never heard of either of those browsers, am I that out of touch? I still use Netscape Navigator myself and it does whatever I need. It came free in the mail on an AOL install disk so I didn't even have to pay for it!
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DeleteThat's why they call HTML a standard, everyone is supposed to implement it the same, until they don't...
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