2022 At 78 RPM-Week 6

Hello!  It's a new month, and I've got something a little special for you in honor of my having made it this far. This week I've got two records featuring special artist introductions to new songs from the late forties! I've shared some intros like these with you from other, later decades, but never anything this early. I was pretty excited when these records popped up at The Internet Archive since they so rarely show up in real life, and when they do, they command some big bucks. They're very short, so you're not getting a lot of listening time out of them, but the enjoyment it great! The record above features introductions to Spike Jones' newest Christmas song from all the members of his band, each one doing a short skit, and then there's a full band version. This was a banded record, and there was a little bit of a problem when they recorded the last band, so I had to edit the beginning a bit with a fade, so you miss the start, but I don't think you'd notice if I didn't tell you. The second record features intros to more new Christmas music for 1948 from Vaughn Monroe, Larry Green, Freddy Martin, Sammy Kaye and someone named Eddie Arnold. I'm sure they meant Eddy Arnold, but that's what it says. I'm sure you'll enjoy these as much as I did, and I'll be back next week with more actual music.

MEGA

I'm a little pressed for time here, so the fridge door story is going to have to wait. 

Edit-4 Jan 2023-Added tracklist for searching.

1. Vaughn Monroe-Intro To Jolly Old Man
2. Spike Jones-Intro
3. Spike Jones & George Rock-Intro For All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
4. Vaughn Monroe-Intro To Auld Lang Syne
5. Spike Jones & Doodles Weaver-Intro For All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
6. Larry Green-Intro To The Christmas Waltz
7. Spike Jones & Sir Frederick Gas-Intro For All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
8. Freddy Martin-Intro To Merry Christmas Polka
9. Spike Jones & Freddy Morgan-Intro For All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
10. Sammy Kaye-Intro To I Want To Wish You A Merry Christmas
11. Spike Jones & Dick Morgan-Intro For All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
12. Eddy Arnold-Intro To C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
13. Spike Jones And The City Slickers-Intro For All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) (Opening Fade Added)
14. Eddy Arnold-Intro To Will Santy Come To Shanty Town

2022 At 78 RPM-Week 5

Moving right along, we're at week five already this year, and it's still only January! The Christmas goodies from 78's just keep right on a'coming even though the season has long passed. As you can see from the labels, it's another varied collection of songs from a wide variety of artists. You never know what's going to turn up at The Internet Archive, and I'm trying to bring you the very best of it. Wait, who am I kidding, I'm not trying to bring you you the best, I'm trying to bring it all to you. Or at least all the Christmas music. So enjoy this latest taste of what I've found, and come back in another week for more!

MEGA

In other news, I'm still recovering from the heart attack, but that's moved to the back burner lately. My girlfriend's parents were in town, and one of them got a little ill. He took a Covid test, no sign of that. But the next day, he tested again, and it was positive. So then there were three of us in my tiny condo with a positive Covid patient. Luckily we're all vaccinated and boostered, and after after almost a week together, no one else got the Covid. I got whatever he had on that first day, and tried to cough myself to death for a few days, but I'm still testing negative, and the cough is almost gone at this point. It's an adventure around here every day I tell you!

Edit-4 Jan 2023-Added tracklist for searching.

1. Anita Ellis With The Balladeers-Orchestra Under The Direction Of George Kleinsinger-Christmas Is A Feeling In Your Heart
2. Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra-Christmas Melodies (Noël; Adeste Fideles) (Villancicos)
3. Vincent Lopez And His Suave Swing Orchestra-Vocal Refrain By Penny Parker-Hello, Mr Kringle
4. The Ravens And Dinah Washington Featuring Jimmy Ricks And Dinah Washington-Out In The Cold Again
5. Sylvester Scott-Snowfall
6. The Kermit Leslie Orchestra-The Little Toy Shop
7. The Unitones-Directed By George Mitchell-The Toy Piano Polka
8. The Topnotchers-Holiday Polka
9. Big Jon Arthur And The "No School Today" Cast With Orchestra Conducted By Jimmy Carroll-The Night Before Christmas Song
10. Korla Pandit-Silent Night

2022 At 78 RPM-Week 4

Another week, and another great selection of Christmas tunes from the seemingly endless depths of The Internet Archive. I know Christmas is long passed at this point, but if you've still got that Christmas spirit in your heart, these are some great songs for you. From a couple of singing cowboys, through a few different big bands, all the way to some female vocalists you've likely never heard of, there's a little bit of everything here in this batch. I think there are also a couple of things I previously shared back in 2020, but from different records. Sometimes I can't remember which songs I've shared and which ones I haven't, so if I don't remember it right away, I grab whatever new records pop up. Then later when I tag it I will see that the tag has already been used, and that kinda clues me in. Sometimes the new versions are better, sometimes they aren't, but you just never know. It's only a couple of the records, so I hope that doesn't turn anyone off of downloading these lost gems. For the curious, I'm still doing fine, trying to eat right and choke down some pills twice a day that would make a horse cough.  So it goes. I'll be fine. And if you're still with me, here's the link. Enjoy!

MEGA

Edit-4 Jan 2023-Added tracklist for searching.

1. Roy Rogers (King Of The Cowboys) With The Roy Rogers Riders And Orchestra-(Hardrock-Coco-Joe) The Three Little Dwarfs
2. Eddie Gould & Orchestra-Christmas Day
3. Jan Garber And His Orchestra-Vocal Quartet And Ensemble-Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)
4. Orchestra And Chorus Conducted By David Carroll-Vocal By The Jack Halloran Singers-My Christmas Carol
5. Harry Reser And His Orchestra-Vocal Chorus By Tom Stacks-Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
6. Jerri Adams Featuring The Tattle Tales-Snow Dreams
7. Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians-Vocal Chorus By Trio-Winter Wonderland From "Ziegfeld Follies"
8. Gloria Elwood With Bob Martin & His Orchestra-I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
9. Tex Ritter-Away In A Manger
10. Frank Parker-Orchestra Under The Direction Of Archie Bleyer-O Holy Night

2022 At 78 RPM-Week 3

Welcome back to the continuing series of 78 RPM Christmas records here in 2022.  It's been a particularly trying week here at the homestead, but I'm not letting that stop me from posting these great records, care of The Internet Archive. They've graciously provided the recordings of these records to all, and I'm just cleaning them up a little bit and sharing them with y'all in little curated batches. Well, I say they're curated, but they're really just random collections of records that I happen to have finished tagging. But they're still nice collections. I've been doing this for three weeks now, and if you don't have them, you can find the previous two weeks here and here. If you've got the previous downloads already, then you know exactly the type of fun music you can expect to hear.  Have a look at the labels to see what you're going to get in the download and have at it!

MEGA

PS-Just for future reference, I'm going to mention this here. I had a heart attack this past Sunday. A very mild heart attack, I should emphasize. I had some troubling symptoms while at the grocery store, so I finished shopping, took home the groceries and went to the ER. Sure enough, about 6 hours later they told me the markers were in my blood indicating a heart attack. Next day they put a stent into an artery that was 99% blocked, and the day after that I came home. Heart care is very different than it was a few years ago. With proper care, it's certainly not a death sentence. Now, if I can just give up salt and red meat...

Edit-4 Jan 2023-Added tracklist for searching.

1. Cedric Adams, Freddie Bradish-Organist-A Visit From St. Nicholas
2. The Beverly Sisters With Orchestra Under Alyn Ainsworth-I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
3. Sergei Rachmaninoff-Piano Solo-Troïka En Traineaux (In A Three-Horse Sleigh)
4. Vocal By Charlie Dobson-Music By Tony de Simone-How Many Days Till Christmas
5. George Wright At The New York Paramount Theatre Organ-Little Town Of Bethlehem
6. Herb Kern And His Pan-Pacific Orchestra-Loveland In Wintertime
7. Johnny Curtis-Frosty The Snowman
8. Arturo Toscanini And The NBC Symphony Orchestra-The Skaters Waltz (Part 1)
9. Arturo Toscanini And The NBC Symphony Orchestra-The Skaters Waltz (Concluded)
10. Korla Pandit-Joy To The World

2022 at 78 RPM-Week 2

Time for the second installment of what I hope is a series that will last all year long! It's a collection of Christmas 78's, all sourced from The Internet Archive and lightly processed by me for slightly better sound. My goal is to highlight the stuff that's available over there in their Great 78 collection, and to provide you with some listenable music that you've probably not heard before. Their collection is great, both deep and wide, and every month they add to it, so there's always something new to be found. I'm concentrating on the Christmas side of it, but there is all sorts of music there to be discovered. There's no rhyme or reason to what I'm putting out here in this collection, it's just a random selection of the 78s that I've collected and tagged most recently. You'll have to look at the beautiful selection of labels to see what's in the pile, I'm not going to type it all out for you. So without further ado, here's the link, and I'll see you next week!

MEGA

Edit-4 Jan 2023-Added tracklist for searching.

1. Bill Cook-A Letter To Santa
2. Amalia Mendoza Con Mariachi-Amarga Navidad
3. Jim McCahey-I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas
4. Ross Bagdasarian With Orchestra Conducted By Nelson Riddle-Let's Have A Merry, Merry Christmas
5. Skip Farrell And Jack Fulton-The Two Mr. F's-Mrs. Santa Claus
6. Jeff Stoughton And His Lake Placid Club Orchestra-Vocal By Larry Murphy-North Pole Town
7. Jimmy Durante-Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
8. Al Dexter-Vocal By Al Dexter With String Band-Santa Is On His Way
9. Anne Shelton With Orchestral Accompaniment Directed By Camarata-Spring In December
10. The Mariners-Deck The Hall With Boughs Of Holly

More Than A Feeling

This is the last post of the 2021 Christmas sharity season, I promise. There's nothing else in the pile that I'm really wanting to put out there. Keep in mind, however, that I'm going to try to post part two of the 2022 series of Christmas 78s tomorrow and every Saturday thereafter for the rest of the year. That's the plan at least. So you're not going to have to go completely cold turkey on the Christmas music for the foreseeable future. And today is another very special post that's well outside my usual milieu as it's 100% rock music, about as far removed as you could get from the usual 50s & 60s pop and EZ listening that this blog usually explores. (At least before rap music came along. Rap and hip-hop seem to have changed everything, much as Elvis changed music in the 50s and The Beatles changed it again in the 60s. But I digress...) I found a copy of this record at a store in NYC a couple years ago when I happened to find myself there close to Christmas. I must have hit fifteen different stores over about three days before I got sick and spent the last couple days in bed. I still managed to spend a small fortune during my stay and had a healthy sized carry on that really confused the TSA at the airport. I have yet to share a lot of stuff from that collection, but maybe someday. This is a local Boston-area comp that only contains five songs, but what great songs they are. This is the sort of music that you buy local comps for, but so rarely find. If you've never heard this record, you need to download it and listen to it right now. If you've heard of it, then you've probably already tracked down a copy because you knew how badly you needed it. This is A Boston Rock Christmas (Boston Rock 12" 45 RPM BR-001, Stereo, 1983).

1. Sonny Columbus & His Del Fuegos-That Punchbowl Full Of Joy
2. Native Tongue-Do You Hear What I Hear?
3. SSD-Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
4. Jeff & Jane-Jingle Bells
5. Christmas-O Holy Night

MEGA

Susie's Back

Something made me think of this old share today, and I realized that it hadn't seen the light of day in over nine years now. I checked, and I still had the original WAV files on my computer, so I re-encoded it in a better bitrate than I did when I first shared this in 2012. If you want to hear the Christmas musings of a couple of puppets, and featuring the voice of Tammy Faye Baker, then this share is for you! Please be brave and download Susie & Allie-Christmas With Susie & Allie (PTL Club PTL-LP-1848, Stereo, 1984).
 

1. Frosty The Snowman
2. White Christmas
3. Winter Wonderland
4. O Christmas Tree
5. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
6. Jingle Bells
7. Away In The Manger
8. The Christmas Story
9. Joy To The World

MEGA

Not Normal

A little something outside my comfort zone here today for Epiphany. I thought I was going to end up the shares yesterday at the end of the twelve days, but I had this and one more record left in the pile. I had recorded this for my own enjoyment, but I decided I'd go ahead and share it since it's kinda rare, and a little out there. It's much later than most of my other shares, much more rock-leaning, and even a little bit lascivious. (I even had to censor the cover just a bit to post here, but the original is in the download. Can't have naked breasts showing up around here, it's a family friendly kinda place. Just pretend those sheep aren't wearing lingerie though...) Anyhow, this is supposed to be a comedy album, but I didn't find it all that humorous. Your mileage may vary. This is The Scrooge Bros.-Commercial Christmasland (Enigma E1043, Stereo, 1983).

1. I Wish You Would Take Your Hat Off
2. Glory To The Store Displays
3. What Smell Is This
4. Jingleside
5. Deck Yourself
6. The First Greenback
7. Cylent Night (The end of this track is a locked groove. It would have played on forever if I'd let it, but I faded it out after a while.)

MEGA