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Christmas Party for Children--20 Favorites (Yulesong SY-0222)
We kick off the 2017 Christmas posting with the ultra-cheap classic, Christmas Party for Children--20 Favorites.And what list of Christmas favorites would be complete without "Hickory Dickory...
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Songs of Christmas by the Macy Singers!
Click here to hear: Songs of Christmas--Macy SingersThe First NoelSilent NightGod Rest Ye Merry GentlemenAdeste FidelesRudolph, the Red-Nose (sic) ReindeerWhite ChristmasJingle BellsReprise--White...
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Christmas songs in Chinese!
Another ten-incher, here. There are familiar Christmas numbers sung in Chinese--at least, I'm almost sure this is Chinese (so said the ad). I bought this for the novelty value, but these turn out to...
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Have a Hawthorne House and Everlast Products Christmas!
Last year, I shared these two Hawthorne House Record Cards--greeting cards with thin wafer-type records which, to be restored, have to be removed from their paper backing and affixed to a solid...
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A Gilmar and Tops 78 rpm Christmas!
I had no idea the cheapie label Gilmar had produced 78s, so when this showed up on a 78 list, I grabbed it. (Actually, I sent money for it and waited for it to arrive via USPS. I didn't literally...
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The Ain't-Not Tree--Radio City Music Hall Chorus, Macy's Thanksgiving Day...
The Ain't-Not Tree, as featured by the Radio City Music Hall Chorus in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1963. Cute song, but the lyrics aren't the easiest to make out. (Maybe my 60-year-old ears...
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Merry Christmas from the Garcia Corporation!
This may be the weirdest company-produced Christmas single of them all, but of course one can never be sure. Two, perhaps, but not one. It's Garcia's long-playing Merry Christmas EP from 1962--the...
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A "Season's Greetings" record card from our former Toledo, Ohio neighbors
Wow. The "pre-owned" stuff you spot on eBay: in this case, a Christmas record card from Beringer's Gulf Service--1918 Wayne Street, Toledo 9 Ohio. "Whoa," I said to myself mentally. "A Gulf gas...
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Merry Mervmas!!
A Merry Mervmas from the late, great Merv Griffin (1925-2007)!Click here to hear: Merry Mervmas!SLEIGHLISTMerry Christmas Polka--Merv w. Freddy Martin Orch., 1949Sleigh Ride--Same, 1950Christmas...
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Another Record Corporation of America holiday classic!
Sure, it's a cute cover (another 10-incher for Christmas 2017), but it doesn't exactly have "High Quality" printed all over it. Well, actually, it did, and it took me hours to clone out the lettering....
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Merry Christmas from (who else?) Line Material!!
Scans by me, from my collection(This repeat post appeared in nearly the same form in 2015.)Ahhhh... Line Material Christmas singles--one of the best parts of any...
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Christmas, according to RITE Records (Big 4 Hits and Gateway!)
Today, five selections from the Big 4 Hits label, and four from Gateway Records. Both were put out in the 1950s by RITE Records of Cincinnati, Ohio. These are sound-alikes, and they range from fun...
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas--The Mistletoe Singers
Kind of a nice cover for such a cheap LP. The "Mistletoe Singers" is a fake name for whoever and whatever the label (Tinkerbell) could dig up for this effort, and, to my genuine surprise, the album's...
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Frank and Jack--beyond odd
Frank and Jack's 1956 novelty versions of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Jingle Bells fall into the so-bad-they're-fascinating category. Frank and Jack are trying to be Spike Jones, Dickie...
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Here We Come A-Polka-ing
Click here to polka!! A Polka ChristmasPOLKA SLEIGHLISTSanta Claus Polka--Eddie Wojcik Orch., v: Syl WojcikToymakers Song--Keith Williams and his Orch., Vocal by MR. CLAUS and his helpersSeasons...
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A 1958 McDonald's Flexi disc not from 1958 or McDonald's
Here's what the eBay ad said: "THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY EVA-TONE FLEXI RECORD FROM 1958 COMPLIMENTS OF McDONALDS.""Oh, boy," I said in my head. "A McDonald's flexi-style record from 1958! Hm.... The...
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Freddy Martin and His Orch.--Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite in Dance Tempo...
A 1949 two-45rpm-EP RCA Victor reissue of a 1942 Freddy Martin set that's one of the coolest shellac sets ever made. We'll let the 1949 liner notes (were they transferred from the original issue?)...
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Feminist Christmas Carols--Feminist Carolers (1972)
From 1972, familiar Christmas carols with feminist lyrics substituted by Russellyn S. Carruth, whom a Google search identifies as a Pittsburgh lawyer, if she is in fact the same Russellyn S. Carruth....
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Christmas 2017 singles, Part 1
My insomnia continues, and I'm running on fumes right now. However, I managed to get a very nice two-hour (or so) nap tonight, and, boy, is it nice to sleep. And I'm on a new med combination that...
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