[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[Matthew Duncan]

My favourite christmas songs:
 
1. SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON II - SONNY BOY'S CHRISTMAS BLUES - TRUMPET, 1951
2. LONNIE DONEGAN - ON A CHRISTMAS DAY - COLUMBIA, 1955 (or 56)
3. BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON - CHRISTMAS EVE BLUES - PARAMOUNT, c.1927
 
...and I quite like the Debroy Somers medley too...and the same one by Teddy Brown on the Vocalion label's 8" Broadcast imprint.....so a bit of a mixture of yule shellac there!
 
Matthew.

--- On Sat, 12/12/09, RAY KILCOYNE <kil at roadrunner.com> wrote:


From: RAY KILCOYNE <kil at roadrunner.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] The Christmas Songs
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, 12 December, 2009, 0:36



From: "Taylor Bowie"
> Gotta be Santa Claus Is Coming To Town for dance bands,  right?
>
> I have heard an Art Landry (?)  Gennett of Jingle Bells which is pretty 
> damn
> good and there are plenty of dance records of that...so it's one or the
> other of those two tunes.
>
When you come right down to it, what other secular Christmas songs were 
there before the war.  Those were the two biggest.  There were maybe a few 
other one shots that were quickly forgotten.  (In fact, JINGLE BELLS 
actually was only a winter song, and not a secular Christmas song when it 
was written).

Two exceptions that have lasted are UP ON THE HOUSE TOP and JOLLY OLD SAINT 
NICHOLAS.  Both pre-date the 78 era, yet whenever I have asked in years past 
about what pre-WWII 78rpm recordings were made of those two, the list has 
come up empty.  So I ask again this year.  If there are none known by this 
elite list, I have to assume there were few or maybe none.
RayK 

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