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Songs of Faith and Doubt by Sydney Carter--Donald Swann (1964)
Sometimes the best things show up in cluttered boxes of thrift LPs. Such was the case with 1964's Donald Swann Sings Songs of Faith and Doubt by Sydney Carter. I'd have foolishly passed on it, had...
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The Testor Chorus--Christmas Carols from Many Lands (1959; recorded in 1957)
From December 27. 1957, this is the Testor Chorus singing live in Rockford, Illinois. This taped performance was released two years later on today's LP, Christmas Carols from Many Lands. I didn't...
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It was the cat. I'm almost sure.
A weird night tonight. I'm sort of winding down from stress, but I just went into an obsess-athon over true mono vs. the "summed" type. What would a pure lateral signal sound like when processed...
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Happy Birthday to Our Savior (With Ecclesiastical Approval)--The Boy Savior...
This is one of those fashionable-to-laugh-at records that aren't doing any harm to anyone. It's kind of charming. I just wish I could figure out who's singing. "Boy Savior Youth Movement" only...
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Season's Greetings from Jan Cyman and the Musicalaires--Holiday polkas that...
I genuinely love polkas. Polkas go back as far as some country fiddle tunes--namely, to the time of Jefferson and Washington. That may sound unlikely, but we know for sure that polkas were around in...
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Merry Christmas! Favorite Carols and Songs (Treasure Productions 824)
This is the same LP posted by Ernie here. Except it's a different label and jacket. So, why am I posting it? Good question. Oh, and the Tops label put out at least some of these same tracks--in...
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The Salvation Army Presents "Army of Stars"," Christmas 1964--Hosted by...
Brief narrations by Ronnie Raygun open and close this 1964 Salvation Army Christmas LP. "Army of Stars," it's called, and since they're using quotes, I am, too. Otherwise, I'd use italics. Ken Koury...
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Christmas Favorites--Tops Orchestra and Choristers (Tops L1525; 1957)
No... Nooo! It can't be!! It's not possible! Yet, is is. Its... it's...Yes, Santa Claus Is Riding Through the Sky yet again, only this time it's "through the sky," not "thru." He rode thru/though...
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Christmas Music for the Winter Season, or An Hour of Christmas Orchestral...
Half an LP for this rip--I stuck with the B side only on this disc, because that's where all the good tracks are. You're not missing much. Side 2 is where all the action is.The last time I put this...
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My thrift-store Christmas decoration finds for the year. Two photos of the same four items--a cardboard church ornament, a plastic Rudolph, a cool snowman-and-tree decoration that someone might have...
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Dreck the Halls with Premier Albums--tra, la, la, la....
One glance at the back cover tells us this is the outfit that gave us Coronet and Spin-O-Rama. In other words, Premier Albums, Inc., which didn't even bother to provide a label name for this one. So...
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Granville (Ohio) Elementary School--1961 Christmas Program
I found this LP in 2009 at Goodwill--probably around these parts, not in Columbus, Ohio. Anyway, it came in a plain white jacket, and there's no track information on the label, so for my 2010 post I...
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A Family Christ Mass (Dane Gordon-Milford Fargo)--Third Presbyterian Church,...
From a local Goodwill, a two-LP set housed in a single jacket with a booklet enclosed--a Christmas Mass with music by the late Milford Fargo, who was an associate professor of Music Education at the...
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Lakewood Sings--The Choirs of Lakewood High School (Lakewood, Ohio), 1961
I was about to make this into a zip, then I noticed I'd marked the "Ezekiel" track as "Ezekia." Had to fix that, then re-export the tracks, which is no big deal, but there's always some tiny error...
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An Hour of Christmas Orchestral Music--Royale Concert Orch. (Entire LP, this...
Today, the return of my eight-selection Gilmar 78 rpm EP, Christmas Favorites, which obviously originated with the Tops label. My clue? The "Tops All-Star Orchestra and Chorus" credit. After you've...
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Sunday morning gospel--Fields on Fire-athon; Pictures/A Picture from Life's...
I haven't done a Sunday Morning Gospel in a long, long spell. Kind of nice to get back into the spirit. I've done research on both of the songs in this morning's -athon but never came up with...
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Ridiculously good holiday vinyl: Christmas Carols by Father Sydney MacEwan...
A Goodwill find. I had no idea who Scottish tenor Father Sydney MacEwan was, but I figured this was worth a 99 cents gamble, especially with the cool cover. Turns out MacEwan (1909-1991) had a...
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Murphy Trucking Company: The Treasures of Christmas--3M Club Chorus (1980)
I was going to start my essay with, "This isn't your usual Christmas record," but is there such a thing? What's a usual Christmas record? I'm at the point where I'm not sure. It's possible there are...
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A Pietro Deiro Publications accordion Christmas
So, I just had one of the weirdest dreams ever. After the Thin Man was just playing on TV, I was sleeping in my chair, and the dream scenes were happening in accordance with the movie's audio. I'm in...
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A sackful of singles and album extracts--20 of them!
The engineering, if it can be called that, on the Julius La Rosa disc (We Need a Little Christmas) sounds like something anyone could accomplish with a $9.99 microphone and a transistor radio. Good...
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