[78-L] Christmas B-sides

[David Lennick]

The remake of White Christmas is coupled with "God Rest Ye Merry" on 23378.

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On 1/1/2011 12:00 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> 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.
>
> db
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 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
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