[78-L] first Christmas album?

[Ferenc János Szabó]

Dear Colleagues,

there were two Christmas series of Hungarian gramophone discs in the
acoustic era, recorded in Autumn 1911. Either is a series of -- at least --
6 discs of the BeKa company, on its (Hungarian) Diadal Records label, the
other is a series of 6 discs published by The Gramophone Company. The
performers on both series are members of the Choir of the Royal Hungarian
Opera, on the BeKa discs as male choir, on the GC discs as a male vocal
quartet. The repertoire consists of Hungarian and international Christmas
songs and some Hungarian religious hymns. Although I have not seen an
"album" publication of these discs, the continuous catalogue numbers
clearly indicate that the discs were regarded as a series. If you are
interested in that, see my article: *„From Church Hymns to the »Church
Scene«. Religious Songs on Hungarian Gramophone Records (1900–1920)”. *In:
Pekka Gronow – Christiane Hofer – Frank Wonneberg (szerk.): Contributions
to the History of the Record Industry. Beiträge zur Geschichte der
Schallplattenindustrie. Vol. 7 (Wien: Gesellschaft für Historische
Tonträger, 2016): 164–172.

With best wishes from Budapest,
Ferenc János Szabó


David Lennick <dplennick at yahoo.com.invalid> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. dec.
14., H, 5:38):

>
>  Roycroft took some of the discs in its big English Singers album and put
> them into a Christmas collection. Listed in the Gramophone Shop catalogue
> in 1931.
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> The Lyn Murray Singers came out with their Christmas Carols set on
> Columbia set C-94 also in 1942.
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> > On 12/13/2020 9:48 PM, Randy Watts wrote:
> >> A couple I know of on Decca that preceded the Crosby set: one by Frank
> Luther and Zora Layman, and one that compiled records by Bing, Kenny Baker,
> and a vocal group whose name escapes me.
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> > What about Fred Waring and Glee Club-- they did a Christmas album which
> > came out in 1942 and featured 8 Christmas songs...
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