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12/25/2022

TODAY'S CHRISTMAS ALBUM – my Last post and a mystery.

This is the one and only Christmas album I can remember that my parents bought. They played it every night for a couple of weeks before Christmas when my sister and I went to bed. I know every song by heart, which song follows which song and every pop and click. I loved this album. After my folks died and the house was being prepared for the estate sale, I saw the album had been tossed and I picked it out of the trash bin.

It’s not all that great. Just some no name singers and stock Christmas arrangements, but it’s My Christmas and I wouldn’t part with it for anything. Almost 60 years old and it still plays, the surface noise and crackles just adding to the memories of the past.

…and now the mystery…
“Christmas at Home” – Fontanna his Orchestra and Chorus”, was released on MasterSeal Records in 1958. Masterseal was a budget supermarket label started as an offshoot of Re*****on Records which dates to 1950, Re*****on being an offshoot of Continental records of the 40’s. Re*****on had released many European recordings of songs in the public domain in America under several labels often changing the album cover art as well as the names of orchestras in order to dupe the public into thinking they were buying something different or new. When the LP became prominent in the 1950’s, new recordings were made for the American public since the quality of older recordings was no longer acceptable. However, the deception didn’t stop.

“Christmas at Home” was also issued on their Webster label using the same cover art but with one strange exception. The front of the album lists “Fontanna his Orchestra and Chorus”, the back of the album credits “John Clayton his Orchestra and Chorus”. The Masterseal recording released in Canada gives John Clayton all the credit, both on the album cover and the record itself. It gets even more confusing with over 7 versions of the album released over the years with different artwork, different labels (Silvertone, Masterseal Hi-Fi, Palace, Canadian Tire etc.), the same artwork but the album renamed, different orchestras credited, song titles shuffled even duplicated, some songs added, others deleted, mono versions as well as fake “stereophonic” and even one album with several organ instrumentals added in addition to the other songs. It’s all too long to detail here, I could though, I’ve done the research. However, being a hunt and peck typist, it would probably take me two or three days and a dozen pages, and you would be bored to death. ( I know what you’re thinking, “man, get a life”).

Bottom line…” Fontanna” probably never existed and was just a catchy name thought up by a PR man to put on one of many record albums. The Re*****on Records story itself is fascinating and would someday make a great book for an audiophile historian.
One final note…for a budget album, the cover art is great. Merry Christmas!

12/24/2022

Christmas is almost here and so are four more albums.

Just what was RCA thinking? It’s as if on November 1st of some long-ago year someone in the marketing department said, “We forgot to put a Christmas Album out this year and we have one week to get something to the stores!” So here is one of the worst Christmas albums put out by a major distributor… a couple of good songs and a hodgepodge of throwaway tracks. Add some crummy artwork, (the living room in my first apartment was more appealing), and you have RCA’s “Christmas Favorites”.

12/23/2022

Today's Christmas albums.

Christmas songs are recycled why not album covers? From 1963 we have Wayne King’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” on Decca Records followed by 1969’s MCA release “Christmas Through the Years” (MCA bought Decca in 1963). Which means those folks have been decorating that same tree for 6 years.

F***y Farmer Candy Shops' brand of a silhouetted cameo and script typeface was ubiquitous throughout a good chunk of the United States for much of the 20th century. The company was known for its tradition and its quality. Even more memorable were the scrumptious flavors of the candies — butter creams, maple walnut, parfait bars, almond bark and orange creams, to name a few.

The F***y Farmer company started in Rochester in 1919 and grew to a chain of more than 400 shops. During its heyday, though, F***y Farmer candy was the largest manufacturing retailer of candy in the country before the last stores closed nearly two decades ago. F***y Farmer was gobbled up and bought and sold by other companies during its final years.

“F***y Farmer presents Bing Crosby” was a perfect combination. The #1 candy company teaming up with the #1 Christmas entertainer. Bing Crosby, as synonymous with Christmas as mistletoe, a yule log or a Christmas box of chocolates.

12/22/2022

Today’s Christmas albums – Unusual Cover Art

Kay Martin was a hotelier and ex-model, nightclub entertainer, and "party album" singer, who owned the Kay Martin Lodge in Reno, Nevada.

Born in Bakersfield, California, and part Cherokee Indian, modeling saw her featured in both Adam and Pl***oy magazines. She then met Jess Hotchkiss and Bill Elliott, who together established a nightclub act, billing themselves as "Kay Martin and Her Body Guards".

In between shows they recorded several live albums, their most popular being the 1962 Christmas album “I Know What He Wants For Christmas... But I Don't Know How To Wrap It!”. The songs ranged from covers of traditional songs to double entendre and jokey banter. Because of its cover the album has become highly collectable.

Adventures in Carols, the first of several Ferrante & Teicher seasonal LPs is also the duo's most entertaining, employing the "prepared piano" techniques of their earliest and most intriguing work and was released by Westminster in November 1956. As per title, the album includes twelve Christmas carols which were performed by Ferrante & Teicher on two prepared / treated pianos. The LP comes housed in a playful sleeve that depicts a futuristic scene that involves Santa Claus being launched on a rocket by a team of other Santas. This album is also sought out by collectors.

Eight of the twelve selections - namely "Sleigh Ride", "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "White Christmas", "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", "Silent Night", "Jingle Bells", "Adeste Fideles" and "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" - had already been released by Westminster two years earlier on the 10" album "Xmas Hi-Fivories"

12/21/2022

Christmas south of the border

While winter storms sweep across the country we warm you with tropical Christmas albums. To capitalize on the success of Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass and his hit Christmas album, several record labels invented their own “Tijuana” groups. The Border Brass and the Tijuana Voices are just two examples.

There were many Hawaiaan Christmas albums and of course they all had to include "Mele Kalikimaka" the Hawaiian-themed Christmas song written in 1949 by R. Alex Anderson. The song takes its title from the Hawaiian phrase Mele Kalikimaka, meaning "Merry Christmas" One of the earliest recordings of this song was by Bing Crosby andthe Andrews Sisters in 1950 on Decca. It has been covered by many artists and used in several films (including L.A. Confidential, Catch Me If You Can, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation). Even eclectic singer Leon Redbone included the song on his Christmas album.

12/20/2022

Today's Christmas Albums

For 5 years, the A&P grocery chain issued a series of nice compilation Christmas albums through Columbia with the typical roster of CBS artists. Oddly no mention of the songs or artists were ever featured on the front album cover, usually a good selling tool. A typical example of songs included were:

Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly (Ray Conniff & The Singers)
Sleigh Ride (Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra
The Christmas Spirit (Johnny Cash)
White Christmas (Johnny Mathis)
Happy Holiday (Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (Barbra Streisand)
Santa Claus Is Comin To Town (Mitch Miller & The Gang)
Twelve Days of Christmas (New York Philharmonic & Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep (Tammy Wynette)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Percy Faith & His Orchestra)
O Come All Ye Faithful (Robert Goulet)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mahalia Jackson)

12/19/2022

More Christmas records...

Eddie Dunstedter showed an early interest in the organ. As a teenager, Eddie went to work for the Kilgen Organ factory, where he not only helped erect the instruments before final shipment, but demonstrated their capabilities to prospective customers. By the time both this century and Eddie had reached their twenties, his career had commenced. His first big theatre opportunity came at the Capitol Theatre in St. Paul. From here it was only a short time before he was called to appear at the Garrick, the State, and finally at the large four manual Wurlitzer located in the 4,400 seat deluxe Minnesota Theatre. Radio made Eddie a national celebrity when he was engaged to play the WCCO studio Wurlitzer and conduct an orchestra in a program known as "The Gold Medal Fast Freight". He was heard over the CBS radio network from coast to coast, being introduced with the slogan, "The Master Makes Melody". From here, Eddie was called to Hollywood to both play the organ and serve as musical director for many top shows. Some time after the release of “Christmas Candy” in 1965, Eddie Dunstedter said goodbye to Hollywood and took a teaching position at The MacPhail Center of Music in Minneapolis. Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, he taught many a new organ player his own playing techniques and continued on until his death in 1974.

12/18/2022

Your Saturday Christmas albums.

Ramona Gerhard Sutton was a concert and radio pianist and organist and a native of Watertown, S.D., Sutton began playing professionally in her early teens. From the 1930s to the 1950s, she was full-time staff musician for WCCO radio in Minneapolis. She was also a featured soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the organist for St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Moving to Los Angeles in the 1950s, she became the staff organist for CBS radio station KNX-AM and presented concerts throughout Southern California. Sutton recorded more than a dozen albums, playing theater organs around the country. She passed away in 1997 at the age of 91.

12/17/2022

Into the weekend with our look at four more Christmas Albums.

The Golddiggers was a female singing and dancing troupe that performed in the style of Las Vegas showgirls. The group was formed in 1968, dissolved in 1992, and reorganized in 2007, and has numbered between four and 13 members over various time periods.
The act debuted on The Dean Martin Show, and was later featured in a summer replacement television series over three seasons. In addition to backing Martin on his show and in his nightclub act, the group performed on their own on other TV programs, in live venues, and in three of Bob Hope's Christmas tours. Several members of the original (1968–73) troupe continue to perform as "The Golddiggers", while other former group members perform in other acts, in groups or as solo artists.

12/16/2022

I don’t understand people who say they don’t like Christmas music. I think part of the problem is that for one month a year, everyone tries to cram it down your throat. Maybe another problem is that the only Christmas music most people hear comes pumped through tinny speakers in a mall packed with wild-eyed shoppers dragging their frothing, greedy little broods to meet a fake Santa. The key, as in anything, is knowing where to look. There are, of course, the tried and true classics that stand as works of art on their own by artists like Nat “King” Cole, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Johnny Mathis, and there are some off-the-beaten path gems from Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee, Willie Nelson (produced by Booker T. Jones), and the like. But, there are also others, ones you’ll almost never hear at the mall or anywhere else, for that matter. And, the fact is, they are often incredible albums in and of themselves besides being great Christmas albums.

Take the Ramsey Lewis Trio’s More Sounds of Christmas, which was a follow-up to their Sound of Christmas album. Released on Chess subsidiary, Cadet, in 1964, this album showcases Lewis as a master interpreter with his brand of jazz that has so much feel. That’s what he gives to these songs, some standards and some new creations.
Ultimately, More Sounds does what every great Christmas album does—it uses well-worn holiday songs as a starting point from which to explore. What you get is a great Ramsey Lewis Trio album that happens to be full of Christmas songs.

12/15/2022

** BONUS CHRISTMAS ALBUM **
From 1963 we bring you “A Singer Christmas For The Family” with the Mastertone Orchestra.
I love these albums. Dad stands with pride and smug satisfaction that he forked out the dough for a sewing machine, which will compel his wife to spend the winter making clothes for herself and the children, thus saving money in the long run. Junior is screaming that he didn't get the bike he wanted for Christmas. Mom is thinking, “I'll get you for this...” and little Missy looks at the camera pleadingly “..save me.”.

12/14/2022

Moving along with our look at Christmas albums...

While the Lennon Sisters will probably go down in history as a staple of the Lawrence Welk Show, the four sisters (Dianne, Janet, Peggy and Kathy) could sing, and, once upon a time, recorded a darn good holiday album. The origins of Christmas With the Lennon Sisters is a little murky, but the material seems to have been recorded (perhaps as singles) with Welk's help sometime before the 1961 Dot issue. Whatever its origins, the arrangements of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Little Drummer Boy" evoke a sound from the '40s and '50s, not the '60s, making this album a female counterpart to Gene Autry's classic Christmas recordings. While individual sisters offer fine lead vocal work, the group's specialty is lively harmony recalling the Andrews Sisters. Perhaps the shining jewel of an album that never misses is "Christmas Island”. Since the Lennon Sisters also passed as all-American girls next door, the album also has its share of religious material including "Come All Ye' Faithful" and "Silent Night."

12/14/2022

Brenda Lee and Country Christmas on our Christmas album countdown.

Here's the history of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" from Wiki.

"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" was written by Johnny Marks, who had previously penned "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "A Holly Jolly Christmas". In spite of her adult voice, Lee recorded the song when she was only 13 years old. In a 2019 interview with The Tennessean, Lee recalled that she had no knowledge as to why Marks wanted her specifically to sing it: "I was only 12, and I had not had a lot of success in records, but for some reason he heard me and wanted me to do it. And I did."

"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a rockabilly song. The recording features Hank Garland and Harold Bradley on guitar, Floyd Cramer on piano, Boots Randolph on sax, Bob Moore on bass, and veteran session player Buddy Harman on drums.

An instrumental version of the song appears as background music in the 1964 television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which exclusively featured music written by Marks. It can be heard in the scene where Rudolph first arrives at the Reindeer Games and meets another reindeer named Fireball. A fully sung version of the song would later appear in Rankin/Bass's 1979 sequel Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July. The song was also used in the 1990 film Home Alone during a scene when Kevin McCallister pretends that there is a holiday party taking place in his house, and discourages the burglars from robbing it.

Although Decca released the single in both 1958 and again in 1959, it did not sell well until Lee became a popular star in 1960. That Christmas holiday season, Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" placed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time, eventually peaking at No. 14. It continued to sell well during subsequent holiday seasons, peaking as high as No. 3 on Billboard's Christmas Singles chart in December 1965. Lee said, "It was magic, and I think we all knew it. It took a few years to take off, but once it did, it really did."

Lee's 1958 recording still receives a great deal of airplay, as radio station formats ranging from top 40 to adult contemporary to country music to oldies to even adult standards have played this version. It has since turned into a perennial holiday favorite, and due to rule changes in 2014 has returned annually to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching an all-time chart peak of No. 2 during the 2019 holiday season.

12/12/2022

Lester Lanin – Christmas Dance Party. Never heard of him? Well you should have.

Lester Lanin, who, from the White House to Buckingham Palace, from the Plaza Hotel to the grand ballrooms of the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers, epitomized a rarefied and perhaps fading species -- the society bandleader.

Lanin brought smooth tones, swift changes and a casually elegant style to a continuous stream of dance music, from Dixieland to swing. He supplied danceable happiness to several generations of the richest and most beautiful people on earth, at events ranging from Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday party to the wedding of Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel to the private parties of the duPonts, Chryslers and Mellons.

He made music for Grace Kelly's engagement party, and at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. He wrote "My Lady Love" in honor of their marriage. The kings of Norway, Spain, Greece, Denmark and Sweden hired him.
He played every presidential inauguration since Eisenhower's, except two. Jimmy Carter thought he was too expensive, and George W. Bush didn't invite him. Lester Lanin died at age 97 in 2004.

Singer Mary Mayo was the wife of composer and jingle writer Al Ham. He was also the creator of the adult standards radio format “Music of Your Life”.

12/12/2022

Firestone Presents Your Christmas Favorites was
A series of 7 Christmas albums produced exclusively for Firestone Tire and Rubber Company between 1962 and 1968.

The Firestone Tire Company has always linked its products to music and broadcasting, sponsoring radio programs in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1960s. The seven Firestone Christmas records are easy to identify when you see them. Each album cover featured a cleverly designed Christmas-present look as if the record album is wrapped in holiday paper and tied with a velvet bow. Inside, the record albums sported red and green labels and a mixture of choirs and soloists.

Each of the seven albums also featured the Firestone Orchestra and chorus. Gene Forrell, an award-winning composer and conductor, conducted most of the music on all seven albums.
After the first seven Albums, Firestone again produced some Christmas albums in the 1970s, featuring popular stars of the day. They were not branded with the Firestone logo and distinctive ribbon and bow artwork but rather with a small sticker on the outer shrink wrap. This allowed the album without the sticker to be sold or given away at other outlets and retailers.

12/10/2022

The Christmas album countdown continues.

While technically not a Christmas record I have included “Winter Wonderland” by the Ray Charles Singers because several of the tracks are rarely heard outside of the holidays. It was the 3rd of a series of four albums produced by MGM between 1954 and 1957 celebrating the seasons of the year, the other three titled “Spring Is Here”, “Summertime” and “Autumn Nocturne” and all featuring colorful seasonal cover art.

12/09/2022

Today's Christmas albums.

A Charlie Brown Christmas features several originals ("Christmas Time Is Here", "Linus and Lucy") as well as covers of well-known Christmas songs ("The Christmas Song", "O Tannenbaum"). The score for the special was largely cut at recording sessions at Glendale, California's Whitney Studio. Much of this material was re-recorded by Guaraldi at three sessions later in the year at Fantasy Recording Studios in San Francisco, alongside a choir of children culled from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in nearby San Rafael. The sessions ran late into the night, with the children rewarded with ice cream afterwards.

Released a week prior to the broadcast premiere of the special, A Charlie Brown Christmas sold well, and became increasingly famous in the ensuing decades. It is among the most popular Christmas albums in the United States, where it has been certified Quadruple Platinum, having sold at least four million copies.

12/08/2022

Continuing our look at Christmas Album covers…

Vincent Lopez was a band leader for most of his life, beginning in 1917. In 1921, he was one of the first bands to utilize the latest thing in technology called radio which helped his popularity grow. Lopez worked occasionally in feature films, notably The Big Broadcast (1932) and as a live-action feature in the Max Fleischer cartoon I Don't Want to Make History (1936). In 1940, he was one of the first bandleaders to work in Soundies movie musicals.

It didn't hurt that he had talented musicians. Artie Shaw, Xavier Cugat, Glenn Miller, and two brothers named Dorsey all once played in Lopez's band before they went out on their own.
He also discovered talents such as Betty Hutton and the blind whistler himself Fred Lowery before they created their own niches in the entertainment industry.

When this album was recorded in 1957, Lopez was nearing the end of his career and decided to go out in a blaze of Christmas glory. It’s unfortunate that the cover art is uninspired and cheap looking. It’s downright awful. A real low for Coral Records.

12/07/2022

Here's my 19th post of the daily four Holiday albums countdown to Christmas.
Andy Williams is best remembered for his recording of “Moon River” from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s. However, it was his eight holiday albums, including The Andy Williams Christmas Album (1963) and Merry Christmas (1965), which earned him the nickname “Mr. Christmas.”
The Andy Williams Christmas Album featured “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” written by George Wyle and Eddie Pola. Wyle was also known for writing the theme song for Gilligan’s Island. Many artists have performed “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” over the years, but it’s Williams’ original 1963 recording that remains the perennial holiday favorite. The song has been used in countless TV commercials and movies.

“A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra” was released in September 1957 and was Sinatra’s first Christmas record. In 1963 it was reissued with a new title – “The Sinatra Christmas Album”. Sinatra first recorded the song, "The Christmas Waltz" as a 45rpm single in 1954 with a chorus as well as an arrangement by Nelson Riddle. For this 1957 recording Gordon Jenkins took over the arranging, and The Ralph Brewster Singers provided backing vocal on the recording for “A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra”. In 1968, Riddle again provided arrangements, but it was The Jimmy Joyce Singers who lent their voices to the recording for “The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas”. The Jenkins and Riddle arrangements differ with Jenkins' lusher strings and a slightly more melancholy feel. A highlight of the album is the first track which is a swinging take on “Jingle Bells” with the vocal chorus responding in a jazz horn-like manner to Frank's singing of the carol's lines.

Follow my page for daily Christmas album posts. https://www.facebook.com/Hobbshousemusic You can also read the past 20 or so posts for Christmas record album pictures and trivia. Having thousands of LP's and hundreds of Christmas albums, I enjoy sharing and posting these just for fun. Comments always welcome!

12/06/2022

Bing’s back on our Christmas album countdown.

“Songs Of Christmas, Bing Crosby” was a 1960 Decca record promo featuring Bing and his wife Katheryn on the cover. It was only available at La-Z-Boy dealers. I’m assuming it was either free with the purchase of a La-Z-Boy or at a modest cost, and no it did not include the song “White Christmas”. The songs included were recordings were made before Bing married his second wife Katheryn. I had the opportunity to meet and interview her through a good friend Arne Fogel, a Twin Cities resident, musician, singer, recording artist and Crosby historian while she was on a publicity tour promoting her book “My Last Years with Bing”. The book is a must read for anyone interested in this part of her marriage to the greatest, probably one of the most powerful, entertainers of the 20th Century. It is well illustrated with over 200 pages of mostly color photographs.
To see my previous post on Bing Crosby’s Christmas albums go to the main page then scroll to the November 24th post.

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12/05/2022

Moving right along with our look at Christmas albums.

Aside from secular albums that contained only non-religious Christmas songs such as “Frosty” and “Rudolph”, ones that contain hymns and carols have always been popular.

Robert Shaw had fashioned arguably the most widely-known and respected professional choral organization in the United States. The Chorale recorded a number of charting albums, all for RCA Victor, but the one that will always be considered their definitive recording is this Christmas album. Like many popular Christmas albums of the day, Christmas Hymns and Carols had several incarnations, first appearing in the '40s as a box of four 78 rpm discs. The album went to #5 on the charts in 1949 and 1957, then hit the charts another three times during the '60s; one could argue that, with it's seamless medleys and majestic harmonies, it is to this day the gold standard for choral Christmas recordings.

Mario Lanza was an American tenor and actor. A Hollywood film star popular in the late 1940s and the 1950s, Lanza began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16. After appearing at the Hollywood Bowl in 1947, Lanza signed a seven-year film contract with Louis B. Mayer, the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who saw his performance and was impressed by his singing. He recorded this album in 1957. Sadly, he passed away two years later of a heart attack at the very young age of 38.

The last album is a real cheapie with the cover art pasted on. Crown recycled songs sometimes changing the names of the singers or orchestra to suit its needs or in this case not mentioning them at all. However, as you can see, the music presented on this album is in “Full Color”, whatever that means.

12/04/2022

On with the Christmas album countdown and one of the most popular holiday songs.

“The Christmas Song" (commonly subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" or, as it was originally subtitled, "Merry Christmas to You") is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé.

According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to "stay cool by thinking cool", the most-performed Christmas song was born. Although Mel recorded the song himself, he told me that Nat’s recording was his favorite, and he couldn’t think of anybody who could or did a better job.

The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song early in 1946. At Cole's behest – and over the objections of his label, Capitol Records – a second recording was made later the same year utilizing a small string section, this version becoming a massive hit on both the pop and R&B charts. Cole again recorded the song in 1953, using the same arrangement with a full orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle, and once more in 1961, in a stereophonic version with orchestra conducted by Ralph Carmichael. Cole's 1961 version is generally regarded as definitive, while the original 1946 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1974.

Al Martino’s Christmas album includes “Your All I Want for Christmas”, a favorite of mine and a song I’ve often wondered why more people haven’t recorded. Al was a terrific singer and an acquaintance of mine often remembered for his role as Johnny Fontaine in the “Godfather” movies.

12/03/2022

Today's Christmas albums.

For seventeen years, from 1961 through 1977, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company graced each Christmas season with an LP of holiday favorites by various artists, sold both at Goodyear stores and at Richfield (later ARCO) stations. For the first nine years, the albums always had the same title: "The Great Songs of Christmas." In 1970, the album was called "The Best of the Great Songs of Christmas" and featured songs already included in prior releases. The last seven albums had different titles each year (although the "Great Songs of Christmas" title was brought back for the 1975 and 1977 releases).

12/02/2022

Our Christmas album countdown continues, a one and a two…

Lawrence Welk – what can I say. It brings back memories of Christmas at my grandma’s house in Roslyn, South Dakota. Also Myron Floren was a neighbor and relative.

Not to be confused with the singing group the Pied Pipers, The Town Pipers were formed in Scranton, PA in the 50’s and played small rooms in Vegas for a few years before breaking up. As far as I know, “Christmas Greetings” was the only album they recorded.

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