[78-L] Favorite out-of-print Xmas music?

[Randy Watts]

I'm not familiar with the A.E.I. label. Am I correct in assuming the performances on that album are airchecks? 

Almost all of Judy Garland's recordings have been reissued on CD, actually. About the only things left are some odds and ends of soundtrack performances and some mid-to-late '60s live albums that are probably just as well off in the vaults.

Randy


--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Tom <nice_guy_with_an_mba at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Tom <nice_guy_with_an_mba at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Favorite out-of-print Xmas music?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 3:36 PM
> Thanks Bertrand.
>  
> Some of the selections on this LP are somewhat on the
> saccharine side,
> such as the greetings from Shirley Temple (as perhaps might
> be expected
> lol) though some of the others are truly remarkable.
>  
> I'd have thought, for example, that everything ever
> recorded by Judy Garland,
> one of the biggest recording artists of the last 100 years,
> would be available
> somewhere on CD, though as far as I can tell that's
> not the case. And the
> recording of "O Come All Ye Faithful" by her is a
> wonderful recording. By
> comparison, the recording of "Have Yourself A Merry
> Little Christmas" by
> her can be found everywhere.
>  
> Thanks a bunch.
>  
> Tom
>  
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Bertrand CHAUMELLE
> <chaumelle at orange.fr> wrote:
> 
> From: Bertrand CHAUMELLE <chaumelle at orange.fr>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Favorite out-of-print Xmas music?
> To: "78-L Mail List"
> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 2:18 PM
> 
> The LP you're looking for (no CD re-issue) is
> "GREETINGS FROM 
> HOLLYWOOD" A.E.I. 2121
> 
> Contents as follows (from the Web):
> 
> 
> Side One: The Week Before Christmas
> 1-1  Greetings From Shirley Temple
> 1-2  Christmas Comes But Once A Year…Jimmy Durante
> 1-3  Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas…Judy Garland
> 1-4  Judy’s Wartime Message
> 1-5  Alone…Bebe Daniels
> 1-6  Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus…Margaret
> O’Brien
> 1-7  O Holy Night…Robert Merrill
> 1-8  Christmas Eve with Joan Crawford
> 1-9  Ave Maria…Deanna Durbin
> 1-10 Chanson De Noël…Edith Piaf
> 1-11 O Come All Ye Faithful…Judy Garland
> 1-12 Touch Hands…Tallulah Bankhead
> 
> Side Two: The Week Before New Year’s Eve
> 2-1  Limehouse Blues…Gertrude Lawrence
> 2-2  The Bold Fisherman…Humphrey Bogart
> 2-3  Florence Desmond’s Impressions Of Hollywood
> 2-4  Baby, It’s Cold Outside…Charles Laughton &
> Elsa Lanchester
> 2-5  Let’s Say Hello To The Ladies…Walter Huston
> 2-6  The Glow-Worm…Eileen Carlisle & Spike Jones
> 2-7  Those Wonderful People…Gloria Swanson
> 2-8  Three Little Fishes…Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel
> Bruce & C. Aubrey 
> Smith
> 2-9  You’re The Top…Cole Porter
> 2-10/11  Auld Lang Syne and Greetings from Tallulah
> Bankhead
> 
> Le 12 déc. 08, à 18:40, Tom a écrit :
> 
> >
> > Since it's the season, I was wondering if others
> on here have favorite
> 
> > Xmas tunes that fall into the hard-to-find or
> out-of-print categories.
> >  
> > Much (probably most) of the really extraordinary
> recordings of Xmas 
> > music have found their way to digital formats and are
> available on 
> > CDs. However, there's one 33 rpm LP I have
> that's never been
> digitized 
> > (as far as I can tell) which has some truly remarkable
> analog 
> > recordings on it from the WW II era including "O
> Holy Night" by
> Robert 
> > Merrill (an earlier and better recording of this carol
> than the 
> > version you can now find on CD by Merrill);
> "Isn't It A Shame
> That 
> > Christmas Comes But Once A Year" by Jimmy
> Durante; and "Il Est
> Ne, Le 
> > Divin Enfant" by Edith Piaf.
> >  
> > I think the title to the LP is something like
> "Christmas Greetings 
> > from Hollywood" for those interested in tracking
> it down elsewhere 
> > (I'm moving now and it's packed somewhere or
> I'd have it
> handy).
> >  
> > Thanks for your feedback and Merry Christmas to All!
> >  
> > Tom