[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[Taylor Bowie]

Jeff,

Your meds are fine.  Now on the OTHER HAND I have still not recovered from 
one evening a few years ago having dinner at a spiffy chain restaurant  here 
in Seattle  (Oceanaire Seafood,  since closed) and listening to the piped-in 
music,  only to drop my oyster fork when I heard the first unmistakable 
notes of the 1932  Gene Kardos record of "Ah!  But I've Learned."  Issued on 
ARC as by Ed Loyd,  Chick Bullock vocal.  My dining companions of course had 
no idea why I was so excited,  although most of my friends know it's not 
unusual for me to be observed  listening  to elevator music to identify song 
and composer.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Austin" <jaustin214 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] The Christmas Songs


> Last year I thought I had finally lost what few shreds of rational thought 
> I had left, when, at (gulp) Walmart, their otherwise ghastly muzak 
> launched into the 1934 Guy Lombardo recording of "Winter Wonderland."  I 
> cannot fathom under what circumstances this came to pass.  A weird, and 
> utterly charming moment, although it's possible that I just got my 
> anti-psychotic meds mixed up that day.
>
> J.
>
>
>
>
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> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 7:18:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Christmas Songs
>
> Jingle Bells
> Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
> Winter Wonderland
>
> ..and that was about IT, kiddies! "I Want You for Christmas" was done a 
> couple
> of times on Decca (Dick Robertson, Mae Questel), and there were minor hits 
> like
> Santa Claus Came in the Spring, I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You, 
> Christmas
> Night in Harlem, New Year's Eve In A Haunted House, and wintry songs like 
> I've
> Got My Love to Keep Me Warm and Winter Weather, but there was really 
> nothing
> (except carols) before White Christmas. I've done a few vintage Christmas
> compilations and I've looked. That said, there were dance tempo 
> arrangements of
> carols such as the Savoy Christmas Medley by Debroy Somers, and even 
> there,
> you'd be hard put to identify most of the songs.
>
> dl
>
> Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> Which were the most recorded (secular) American and English Christmas 
>> songs
>> before WW II in the jazz and dance band and popular vein?
>> Kristjan
>>
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