[78-L] Christmas Music

[Jack Palmer]

    So far I stand by my statement.  No one has listed any true Christmas 
Songs like we hear at Christmas today that came out before I was 9 or 10 
years old.  Nothing for my early years even if we had a record player.  I 
was denied a traditional Christmas raising.    Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Christmas Music


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harold Aherne" <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
>> There's also "At the Christmas Ball" by Bessie Smith (18 Nov 1925), but
>> which
>> doesn't seem to have been issued until 1940--at least I couldn't find it
>> in the
>> 14000-D series. Bessie sounds *much* cheerier than usual on that
>> recording.
>> Otherwise, it does seem that the catalysts for "popular" Christmas music
>> as
>> we're thinking of the term are "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and 
>> "Winter
>> Wonderland" in 1934, although I'm not aware of many other such songs
>> until the early 40s. And from then to at least the early 60s there's 
>> quite
>> a lot of them.
>>
> BUT...traditional Christmas carols were, IIRC, issued on record from the
> VERY
> early days of phonorecords onward! I'd have to look deeper into my 
> half-vast
> archives of shellac, and discographic/catalog stuff, to get the facts
> here...?!
>
> ...stevenc
>
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