[78-L] Christmas Music

[Jack Palmer]

    We never owned a record player of any sort when I was a kid so we just 
listened to the radio for our Christmas Carols.  I guess I was shortchanged 
as I have no memories of special records for Christmas.  Come to think of 
it, when I was a child were there any Christmas records?    Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Christmas Music


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "DAVID BURNHAM" <burnhamd at rogers.com>
>> 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.
>>
> Back when I was but a children, we used to play a Decca 78 album
> each Christmas Eve...
> IIRC, it was Ronald Colman and MAY have been the Scrooge saga! Wotever it
> was/is, I still own the album, though I no longer play it annually...!
>
> ...stevenc
>
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