[78-L] Christmas Music

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Records don't go back that far.
In my experience, most Christmas records before (s) 1035 were sacred, with a few novelties for the kiddies.? I think that the success of "Sana Claus Is Coming to Town" (c. 1935) made the compamies see value in other secular songs of the season.? The deluge begins, AFIC, in the '40s, and doen't stp until recent years, with the demise of the 'single'.
One man's opinion.? Corrections welcome!
Don Chichester







-----Original Message-----
From: Tom <nice_guy_with_an_mba at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 7:38 am
Subject: Re: [78-L] Christmas Music



Christmas music goes back about 700 years or so -- so, depending on your age, 
yes, there were Christmas carols and even Christmas records.
?


--- On Sat, 12/27/08, Jack Palmer <vdalhart at earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Jack Palmer <vdalhart at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Christmas Music
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Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 2:29 AM

    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>
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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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