[78-L] HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Mar 2 09:10:31 PST 2009


Les was recording for Reprise for a couple of years..odd that he's not linked 
in the discography.

dl

RAY KILCOYNE wrote:
> Thanks for the link David.  It took a while but I scanned all the Capitol 
> and Reprise sessions and not one mention of Les Baxter, not even on HAVE 
> YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS.  But I assume if his Balladeers were 
> there, Les was probably there too.
> RayK
> From: "David Lennick"
>> Here's the Sinatra discography..
>> http://www.steve-albin.com/Artists/Sinatra/
>>
>> dl
>>
>> RAY KILCOYNE wrote:
>>> A while back I wondered (on this list) if Sinatra had ever worked with 
>>> Les Baxter, since he seemed to work with all the other 
>>> conductor/arrangers at Capitol, and if not, why not.  No one came up with 
>>> examples but I recently came across one.  Surprisingly it wasn't on 
>>> Capitol, but years later on Reprsise.
>>>
>>> It seems he recorded the single HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE 
>>> CHRISTMAS/HOW SHALL I SEND THEE with the Les Baxter Balladeers in 1963.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of any others?
>>> RayK
>>> _________________________



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