[78-L] Christmas Music

[DAVID BURNHAM]

My favourite Christmas records from the 78 era are Cote's set "Carols of the English Yuletide" and "Jingle Bells Fantasy" by, (I think), Rosario Bourdon.  I don't say this based on any artistic merit, although I don't have any problem with them from that perspective, it's just that these were the records which were around when I was a child and many of the carols in the set are rarely if ever performed today and the Jingle Bells Fantasy is also unique.  Now that I'm thinking about Christmas records I had as a child, the only version of "Cradle Song of the Virgin" I've ever heard is the one by Dick Haymes, although it was written by Frank Luther so perhaps he also recorded it.

A wonderful Christmas to all who celebrate it and the best of the holidays to everyone else.

db