[78-L] Mills Brothers Christmas Album

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Nov 20 20:51:43 PST 2008


Now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever seen a ten-inch Dot LP. They 
were still around in Dot's early days, but the earliest Dot LPs I remember are 
things like The Ten Commandments.

dl

Randy Watts wrote:
> Yes, that was originally on Dot, and yes, that really is the entire album. Given its brevity, Dot could just as well have pressed it up as a ten-inch LP.
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 11/20/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: [78-L] Mills Brothers Christmas Album
>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
>> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 10:36 PM
>> Not really OT since the Mills Brothers were on 78s for
>> years. Yesterday I came 
>> across a 1987 reissue on an MCA LP (15029) of The Mills
>> Brothers: Merry 
>> Christmas. Was this originally on Dot? Did it have more
>> than 12 tracks then? 
>> Ludicrously short sides, barely 12 minutes each. The
>> lettering of the title on 
>> the back cover rings a (Christmas) bell...each letter looks
>> hand-drawn.
>>
>> dl



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