[78-L] Christmas B-sides

[DAVID BURNHAM]

The problem with Columbia Christmas records, (particularly the Gene Autry ones), 
is that A and B sides aren't designated.  My father always stacked all of his 
records in the order they came out of the album; always playing both sides of 
every record.  I've never thought of "When Santa Claus gets your Letter" as any 
less of a hit than "Frosty", and always liked "An Old-Fashioned Tree" slightly 
more than "Here Comes Santa Claus".  The other Gene Autry record we had was 
"Three Little Dwarfs" and "Thirty-two feet and eight Little Tails";  I have no 
idea which was supposed to be the "A" side.  Of course, a few years after the 
fact, you can generally tell which side is supposed to be the hit because it is 
picked up and recorded by other artists.

B.T.W. Bing's "White Christmas" didn't always have "Let's Start the New Year 
Right" as a B side, sometimes it had "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" - one of the 
only recordings of this carol I know of where the position of the comma in the 
title is clearly sung.

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Here are a few of them.......
RayK

I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS
THUMBELINA
Jimmy Boyd

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER
IF IT DOESN'T SNOW ON CHRISTMAS
Gene Autry

SILVER BELLS
CHRISTMAS CANDY
Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely

SLEIGH RIDE
SARABAND
Leroy Anderson

LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW
WHEN THE SANDMAN RIDES THE TRAIL
Vaughn Monroe

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN
WHEN SANTA CLAUS GETS YOUR LETTER
Gene Autry

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
THE BOY NEXT DOOR
Judy Garland

JINGLE BELL ROCK
CAPTAIN SANTA CLAUS
Bobby Helms

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN
Perry Como

HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS
AN OLD FASHIONED TREE
Gene Autry

ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE
PAPA NOEL
Brenda Lee