Bulletin - November/
December
2009
Seasonal Specialties
Charles Brown
-> Various
Artists
| CHARLES BROWN |
Bullseye Blues 9561 |
Cool Christmas Blues |
● CD $10.98 |
The smoothest bluesy Christmas - with Clifford Solomon,
Johnny Otis, Bobby Forte & others.
CHARLES BROWN: A Song For Christmas/ Blue Holiday/
Bringing In A Brand New Year/ Christmas Comes But Once A Year/ Christmas
In Heaven/ Merry Christmas Baby/ Please Come Home For Christmas/ Santa's
Blues/ Silent Night/ Stay With Me/ To Someone That I Love
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| JOHN FAHEY |
Burnside 4 |
The John Fahey Christmas Album |
● CD $15.98 |
Reissue of 1994 album by the guitar master featuring
John's unique renditions of old Christmas favorites along with
traditional Christmas songs from around the world with accompaniments on
cello, flutes and piano - Jingle Bells/ Silent Night/ Irish Medley/
Santisima/ O' Come Little Children/ The Little Drummer Boy/ Spanish
Carol/ Christ Is Born As Child Of Man, etc.
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| BILL HALEY &
FRIENDS |
Hydra 27109 |
Vol. 1 - Merry Christmas |
● CD $19.98 |
A collection of 18 tracks featuring Bill Haley, his
bands and associates on a collection of Christmas. The material ranges
from Haley & The Saddlemen from 1951 doing I Don't Want To Be Alone
For Christmas and A Year Ago This Christmas to The Comets
recorded in Germany in 1997 doing Jingle Bell Rock and Blue
Christmas. There's also tracks by Haley & The Comets, Joey Welz,
Jack Howardd, Rusty Wellington and others. Comes with 28 page
extensively illustrated and annotated booklet.
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| MAHALIA JACKSON |
Columbia CK 9727 |
Christmas With Mahalia |
● CD $7.98 |
Includes Mahalia's mighty versions of Silver Bells/
Do You Hear What I Hear/ It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/ White Christmas/
O Holy Night/ The First Noel, and 4 more.
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YANN-FANCH KEMENER & ALDO RIPOCHE |
Buda 7745 |
Noel En Bretagne - Christmas In Brittany |
● CD $10.98 |
A lovely collection of traditional Breton Christmas
songs and carols performed by leading Breton singer Yann-Fanch Kemener
accompanied by Aldo Ripoche on cello and vielle with occasional added
accompaniments on flute and theorbe.
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| PATTI
LABELLE & THE BLUEBELLES |
Relic 7043 |
Sleigh Bells, Jingle Bells & Bluebelles |
● CD $14.98 |
16 tracks including White Christmas/ Blue Christmas/
Winter Wonderland/ Oh Holy Night/ The First Noel/ O Come All ye
Faithful/ Silent/ I Believe etc.
PATTI LABELLE & THE BLUEBELLS: 0 Come All Ye Faithful/
Auld Lang Syne/ Blue Christhas/ Hark The Herald Angels Sing/ I Believe/
It Came Upon A M1dnight Clear/ Jingle Bells/ O Little Town Of Bethlehem/
Oh Holy Night/ Santa Claus Is Coming Town/ Silent Night/ The First Noel/
White Christmas/ Wihat Are You Doing New Years Eve/ Winter Wonderland/
You'll Never Walk Alone
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| JIMMY MCGRIFF |
Collectables 5747 |
Christmas With Jimmy McGriff |
● CD $6.98 |
Jimmy and his organ treat us to a jazzy, funky Christmas
with a couple of originals and hip versions of old chestnuts like
White Christmas/ Winter Wonderland/ Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer,
etc
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| RUDY RAY MOORE |
Norton CED 292 |
This Ain't No White Christmas |
● CD $14.98 |
Dolemite's X-rated Christmas album featuring one song (Merry
Christmas Baby) and a bunch of very raunchy comedy routines. This ia
reissue of Rudy's 1971 LP with two bonus tracks and a booklet with notes
and unpublished photos.
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| JOHN PRINE |
Oh Boy 011 |
A John Prine Christmas |
● CD $14.98 |
8 tracks, 33 min., recommended
Why debate the existence
of Santa when you could be listening to Prine's mini-album of Xmas
tunes? He opens with new versions of Everything Is Cool/ All The Best,
the latter recorded live. They're sort of Xmasy. So's Silent Night
All Day Long/ If you Were The Woman And I Was The Man, a duet with
the Cowboy Junkies' Margo Timmins. All right, the last one isn't really
a Xmas song, but give the guy a break. Best thing is the solo take of
Christmas In Prison, and for purists he's included Silver Bells/
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. (JC)
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| HANK SNOW |
Bear Family BCD 16980 |
Snow On Christmas |
● CD $24.98 |
With a name like Snow, how can you not do a Christmas
album? This CD reissues Hank's 1967 album "Christmas With Hank Snow"
plus tracks drawn from singles, LPs and rare radio transcriptions In
digipac with 32 page booklet. Includes White Christmas/ Little
Stranger (In A Manger)/ C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S/ The Reindeer Boogie (two
versions)/ Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer/ Christmas Roses/ Blue
Christmas (2 versions), etc.
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| RALPH STANLEY |
Freeland 639 |
Christmas Time With Ralph Stanley |
● CD $14.98 |
11 tracks, 31 mins, recommended
Some lovely Christmas
bluegrass music from Ralph and the gang (Ernie Thacker, Junior Blankenshipm Jack Cooke, Curly Ray Cline, Art Stamper & Shelton Faezell)
recorded in 1993. New and old favorites like I'm Going Home, It's
Christmas Time/ Christmas Praise/ Christmas Time's A Comin'/ The
Christmas Spirit and others. Included is a spine chilling acapella
version of the exquisite Bright Morning Star which is, alone,
worth the price of the album. (FS)
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Ace CDCHM 1128 |
Rhythm & Blues Christmas |
● CD $13.98 |
Celebrate Christmas the Ace way with their first
seasonal collection featuring 20 great rhythm & blues sides including
nine new to CD and three previously unissued - B.B. King, Riff Ruffin,
Bobby Nunn, The Deboniares, Jesse Belvin, Lowell Fulson, The Nic Nacs,
Smokey Hogg, Sylvester Cotton, Oscar McLollie and more.
JESSE BELVIN: I Want You With Me At Christmas/ HADDA
BROOKS: White Christmas/ SYLVESTER COTTON: Christmas Blues/ THE
DEBONAIRES: Christmas Time/ Crazy Santa Claus/ LOWELL FULSON: I Wanna
Spend Christmas With You Part 1/ I Wanna Spend Christmas With You Part
2/ SMOKEY HOGG: My Christmas Baby/ MARI JONES & JOHNNY MOORE ORCH: Merry
Christmas Baby/ B.B. KING: Christmas Celebration/ LITTLE WILLIE
LITTLEFIELD: Merry Christmas/ OSCAR MCLOLLIE: Dig That Crazy Santa
Claus/ God Gave Us Xmas/ THE NIC NACS: Gonna Have A Merry Christmas/
BOBBY NUNN: Christmas Bells/ RIFF RUFFIN: Xmas Baby/ UNKNOWN: White-Hot
Christmas/ THE VOICES: Santa Claus Baby/ Santa Claus Boogie/ SMOKEY
WILSON: Christmas
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Alligator 9201 |
The Alligator Christmas Collection |
● CD $11.98 |
Have a bluesy Christmas with the 'gators including
Merry, Merry Christmas by Koko Taylor, I'm Your Santa by Lil'
Ed & The Blues Imperials, Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus by
William Clarke, Boogie Woogie Santa Claus by Charles Brown,
Christmas On The Bayou by Lonnie Brooks, Deck The Halls With
Boogie Woogie by Katie Webster and more by Elvin Bishop, Clarence
"Gatemouth" Brown, Kenny Neal, Tinsley Ellis, Son Seals and others.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Bear Family 16718 |
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer |
● CD $24.98 |
Are you having trouble getting rid of that persistent
Christmas guest who just won't leave? Well this disc might do the trick
- yes folks - here we have 25 different versions of the perennial
favorite Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer plus five other songs
about that deer with the shiny nose. Among the 25 are Gene Autry,
Montana Slim, Dean Martin, Ray Conniff, Hank Locklin, Lynn Anderson, The
Cadillacs, Fats Domino, The Chipmunks and so many more. We also get
Rudolf, das kleine Rentier by John Hendrick, Run Rudolph Run
by Chuck Berry, Randolph, The Flat Nosed Reindeer and others.
Includes booklet with the full story of the song and a cartoon by famous
German cartoonist Ole Konnecke.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Collectors' Choice 412 |
Swinging Songs For Santa |
● CD $24.98 |
A big band and pop music Christmas celebration drawn
from 40s radio transcriptions. Two CDs with 36 tracks including The
Rhythmaires, Dorothy Colins, Tommy Dorsey, The Fontane Sisters, Al
Jolson, Jan Garber Orchestra, Bing Crosby, Johnny Mercer, Les Brown &
His Band Of Renown, Dick Haymes, Ella Fitzgerald and more.
HARRY BABBITT: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?/ JAY
BLACKTON CHORUS: Christmas Medley #1/ Christmas Medley #2/ LES BROWN &
HIS BAND OF RENOWN: Swingin' The Nutcracker Suite/ ROSEMARY CLOONEY:
Here Comes Santa Claus/ Littlest Angel/ DOROTHY COLLINS: Send Me Your
Love For Christmas/ BING CROSBY: The Little Drummer Boy/ We Wish You A
Merry Christmas/ BOB CROSBY: The Skater's Waltz (in Swingtime)/ TOMMY
DORSEY: March Of The Toys/ ELLA FITZGERALD: Silver Bells/ White
Christmas/ THE FONTANE SISTERS: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/ JAN
GARBER ORCHESTRA: Blue Christmas/ Frosty The Snowman/ Sleighride/ DICK
HAYMES: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!/ SKITCH HENDERSON: Jingle
Bells/ LARRY HOOPER: High On A House Top/ BOB HOPE: Silver Bells/ AL
JOLSON: White Christmas/ THE KINGSMEN: T'was The Night Before Christmas/
PEGGY LEE: The Christmas Song/ GUY LOMBARDO: Christmas Medley #4/ THE
MELLO-MEN: Look Out The Window/ JOHNNY MERCER: Frosty The Snowman/ GLENN
MILLER: Jingle Bells/ MAJOR GLENN MILLER AAF BAND: Christmas Medley #3/
THE PENNSYLVANIANS: Music Of Tradition/ THE RHYTHMAIRES: Adeste Fideles/
THE SATISFIERS: Winter Wonderland/ ARTIE SHAW & HIS ORCHESTRA: When
Winter Comes/ KAY STARR: December/ JOHN SCOTT TROTTER: Toy Trumpet/
MARGARET WHITING: It's Christmas Time Again
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Collector 4501 |
Have A Boogie Christmas Rock & Roll |
● CD $16.98 |
Fine collection of 29 Christmas songs - mostly
rockabilly and rock 'n' roll from the 50s plus some piano boogie,
country, bluegrass and, out of left field, the pre war black group The
Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers with the great Christ Was Born
On A Christmas Morn. The opening track by Ricky Godfrew and Rudy
Blue sounds like a recent recordings but most of the rest is from the
50s and 60s and most of them are making their first appearance on a
Christmas themed anthology.
PAUL BAIN: Santa Claus Boogie/ BIG BUD: Rock Around
The Christmas Tree/ Snow Man Rock/ JERRY CLAYTON: Santa Claus/ COTTON
TOP MOUNTAIN SANCTIFIED SINGERS: Christ Was Born On Christmas Morn/ TED
DAIGLE: New Baby For Christmas/ THE FABULOUS: Thunderbirds-Rockin Winter
Wonderland/ LITTLE JOEY FARR: Rock & Roll Santa/ RICKY GODFREW & RUDG
BLUE: Shoes-Boogie Woogie Christmas/ THE JACKSON TRIO: Jingle Bell Hop/
CAROLYN KAG & GRAND PAREES: A Christmas Halo/ BIG TINY LITTLE: Silver
Bells/ Ting's Christmas Medley/ GORDON MACMILLAN & DIPLOMAT TRIO: Jingle
Bells Boogie/ SAMMY MARSHALL: Jingle Mint Twist/ SONNY MOORE: Santa's
Lil Helper/ LITTLE BOBBY RAG: Rockin J Bells/ RUSTY RICHMOND: Santa's
Here To Stay/ THE ROBIN SISTERS: Chimney Top Twist/ Santa's Little
Workshop/ SHOO & THE RAINDROPS: Jingle Bell Stomp/ GERRY STEADMAN & THE
ENCHANTED MOUNTAIN BOGS: Holiday Rock/ ROY TAN & COMBO: Happy New Year/
THE UNIGUES: Rock 'N' Rudolph/ UNKNOWN BAND: December Rock (Take3)/ THE
VEL-MARS: Jingle Bell's/ MICHAEL T. WALL: Rock Around The Christmas
Tree/ Rockin Santa Claus/ NELSON YOUNG: Christmas Time Is Near
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Collectables 9718 |
A Soulful Christmas |
● CD $10.98 |
An R&B and soul Christmas with 20 songs including
This Christmas by Donny Hathaway, White Christmas by Otis
Redding, What Do The LOnely Do At Christmas by The Emotions,
White Christmas by Baby Washington, The Mistletoe And Me by
Isaac hayes plus sides by The Manhattans, The Drifters, Jerry Butler,
The Orioles and more.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Dipper 213 |
The Ultimate Group Harmony Christmas
Collection |
● CD $17.98 |
25 track collection of sides - mostly from the 50s with
a few earlier and a few later.
THE CADILLACS: Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer/ THE
CAMEOS: Merry Christmas/ THE CHANACLAIRS: Yuletide Love/ THE
COOLBREEZERS: Let Christmas Ring/ THE FALCONS: Can This Be Christmas/
THE FIVE KEYS: Every Heart Is Home At Christmas/ It's Christmas Time/
THE GOLDEN GATE QUARTET: White Christmas/ THE HEPSTERS: Rockin N Rollin
With Santa Claus/ SKIP JACKSON & THE SHANTONS: The Christmas Song/ JOEL
& THE DYMENSIONS: All I Want For Christmas Is You/ THE LARKS: All I Want
For Christmas/ MARVIN & THE CHIRPS: I'll Miss You This Christmas/ THE
MOONGLOWS: Hey Santa Claus/ THE ORIOLES: O Holy Night/ THE PENGUINS: A
Christmas Prayer/ THE PILGRIM TRAVELERS: I'll Be Home For Christmas/ THE
POETS: Merry Christmas Baby/ THE RAVENS: Silent Night/ SIR JABLONSKI:
Merry Christmas Day/ THE VALENTINES: Christmas Prayer/ THE VOICES: Santa
Claus Baby/ KENNY WILLIAMS & GROUP: Old Fashion Christmas/ JACKIE WILSON
& THE DOMINOES: Christmas In Heaven/ THE YOUNGSTERS: Christmas In Jail
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Document 32-20-9 |
Blues, Blues, Christmas |
● CD $19.98 |
Two CDs with 52 blues and gospel songs about Christmas
from the 20s through the early 50s. A mixture of familiar titles along
with some obscurities items. Includes Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon, Ralph
Willis, Willie Blackwell (certainly the weirdest ever blues title
Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus!), Cecil Gant, Lonnie Johnson, Harmon
Ray, Rev. Edward Clayborn, Mary Harris, Kansas City
Kitty, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Roy Milton, Elzadie
Robinson, Boll Weavil and many more.
BLACK ACE: Christmas Time/ WILLIE BLACKWELL: Junior's
A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus/ BUMBLE BEE SLIM: Christmas
And No Santa Claus/ JIMMY BUTLER: Trim Your Tree/ BUTTERBEANS & SUSIE:
Papa Ain't No Santa Claus/ LEROY CARR: Christmas In Jail/ BO CARTER:
Santa Claus/ THE CATS & THE FIDDLE: Hep Cat's Holiday/ REV. EDWARD
CLAYBORN: The Wrong Way To Celebrate Xmas/ HARRY CRAFTON WITH DOC BAGBY
ORCHESTRA: Bring That Cadillac Back/ LARRY DARNELL: Christmas Blues/
WALTER DAVIS: Santa Claus/ FLOYD DIXON: Empty Stocking Blues/ CECIL
GANT: Hello Santa Claus/ REV. J.M. GATES: Death Might Be Your Santa
Claus/ Did You Spend Christmas Day In Jail?/ FELIX GROSS: Love For
Christmas/ MARY HARRIS: Happy New Year Blues/ BERTHA “CHIPPIE™ HILL:
Christmas Man Blues/ SMOKEY HOGG: New Year's Eve Blues/ LIGHTNIN'
HOPKINS: Happy New Year/ FRANKIE “HALF PINT™ JAXON: Christ Was Born On
Christmas Morn/ BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON: Happy New Year Blues/ LONNIE
JOHNSON: Happy New Year Darling/ CHARLIE JORDAN: Christmas Christmas
Blues/ KANSAS CITY KITTY: Christmas Mornin' Blues/ LEADBELLY: The
Christmas Song/ JULIE LEE AND HER BOY FRIENDS: Christmas Spirit/ LITTLE
ESTHER & MEL WALKER WITH JOHNNY O: Faraway Christmas Blues/ AMOS
MILBURN: Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby/ ROY MILTON SOLID SENDERS: New
Year's Resolution Blues/ GATEMOUTH MOORE: Christmas Blues/ REV. A. W.
NIX: How Will You Spend Christmas/ JOHNNY OTIS ORCHESTRA: Happy New
Year, Baby/ SONNY PARKER WITH LIONEL HAMPTON ORCHESTRA: Boogie Woogie
Santa Claus/ HARMON RAY: Xmas Blues/ ELZADIE ROBINSON: The Santa Claus
Crave/ SUGAR CHILE ROBINSON: Christmas Boogie/ MABEL SCOTT WITH LES
WELCH & HIS ORCHESTRA: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus/ BESSIE SMITH: At The
Christmas Ball/ THE SONS OF HEAVEN: When Was Jesus Born/ VICTORIA
SPIVEY: Christmas Morning Blues/ J.B. SUMMERS WITH DOC BAGBY’S
ORCHESTRA: I Want A Present For Christmas/ ROOSEVELT SYKES: Let Me Hang
My Stocking In Your Christmas Tree/ TAMPA RED: Christmas & New Year's
Blues/ TITUS TURNER: Christmas Morning Blues/ JOE TURNER WITH PETE
JOHNSON & HIS ORCHESTRA: Christmas Date Boogie/ BOLL WEAVIL: Christmas
Time Blues/ SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON I: Christmas Morning Blues/ Sonny Boy's
Christmas Blues/ RALPH WILLIS: Christmas Blues/ JIMMY WITHERSPOON: How I
Hate To See Xmas Come Around
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Document 32-20-15 |
Blues, Blues Christmas, Vol. 2 |
● CD $19.98 |
A second collection of blues and gospel songs (plus the
occasional doo-wop) around the theme of Christmas and the New Year. It
includes quite a few tracks not available on similarly themed
collections. Two CDs with 44 tracks from Lloyd Glenn, The Voices, Lowell
Fulson, Rev. Charles Watkins, Cecil Gant, Lucy Smith Jubilee Singers,
Charley Jordan & Verdi Lee, Chuck Berry, Lester Williams, Fats Waller,
Gatemouth Moore, Mary Harris, Casey Bill Weldon, Elkins-Payne Jubilee
Singers, The Orioles and many more.
THE ALPHABETICAL FOUR: Go Where I Send Thee/ CHUCK
BERRY: Merry Christmas Baby/ Run Rudolph, Run/ BLIND BLAKE: Lonesome
Christmas Blues/ REV. EMMETT DICKINSON: Christmas What Does It Mean To
You/ ELKINS-PAYNE JUBILEE SINGERS: Silent Night Holy Night/ LOWELL
FULSON: Christmas Party Shuffle/ Lonesome Christmas (part 1)/ CECIL
GANT: It's Christmas Time Again/ LLOYD GLENN: (Christmas) Sleigh Ride/
GUITAR SLIM AND JELLY BELLY: Christmas Time Blues/ LIONAL HAMPTON
ORCHESTRA: Merry Christmas Baby/ MARY HARRIS: No Christmas blues/
HEAVENLY GOSPEL SINGERS: When Was Jesus Born/ ANDREW (SMOKEY) HOGG: My
Christmas Baby/ LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS: Merry Christmas/ LIL SON JACKSON: New
Year's Resolution/ BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON: Christmas Eve Blues/ CHARLEY
JORDAN & VERDI LEE: Christmas Tree Blues/ LITTLE WILLIE LITTLEFIELD:
Merry Xmas/ THE MARSHALL BROTHERS: Mr. Santa Boogie/ OSCAR MCLOLLIE &
HIS HONEY JUMPERS: God Gave Us Christmas/ THE MOONGLOWS: Hey Santa
Claus/ GATEMOUTH MOORE: Christmas Blues/ JOHNNY MOORE'S THREE BLAZERS:
Merry Christmas Baby/ THE NIC NACS WITH MICKEY CHAMPION: Gonna Have A
Merry Xmas/ REV A. W. NIX: Begin A New Life On Christmas Day, Part 1/
THE ORIOLES: Oh Holy Night/ What Are You Doing New Year's Eve/ THE
PILGRIM TRAVELLERS: I'll Be Home For Chrismas/ LUCY SMITH JUBILEE
SINGERS: Seeking For Me/ There Was No Room At The Hotel/ SISTER ROSETTA
THARPE: Silent Night, Holy Night/ When They Ring The Golden Bell/ JESSE
'BABYFACE' THOMAS: Xmas Celebration/ THE VOICES: Santa Claus Baby/ Santa
Clause Boogie/ FATS WALLER: Swingin Them Jingle Bells/ REV. CHARLES
WATKINS: Christmas Morn'/ LEO WATSON: Jingle Bells/ CASEY BILL WELDON:
Christmas Time Blues/ LESTER WILLIAMS: Winter Time Blues/ WINGS OVER
JORDAN: Sweet Little Jesus Boy
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Dust-To-Digital 02 |
Where Will You Be Christmas Day? |
● CD $15.98 |
24 tracks, 74 mins, highly recommended Terrific
collection of vintage recordings of Christmas songs featuring recordings
made between 1917 and 1959 and featuring a broad spectrum of music and
sentiments including blues (Lead Belly, Walter Davis, Bessie Smith,
Lightnin' Hopkins, etc.), gospel (Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified
Singers, Rev. J.M. Gates, etc), calypso (Lord Executor, Lord Beginner),
country (The Maddox Brothers & Rose, Fiddlin' John Carson, etc), jazz
(McKinney's Cotton Pickers), American-Italian (Pasquale Feis), sacred
harp (Alabama Sacred harp Singers) and more. Excellent sound, attractive
packaging and full discographical info adds up to one of the best
collections of songs about Christmas out there. (FS)
ALABAMA SACRED HARP SINGERS: Sherburne/ BUTTERBEANS
AND SUSIE: Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree)/
LEROY CARR: Christmas in Jail (Ain't That a Pain?)/ FIDDLIN' JOHN CARSON
AND HIS VIRGINIA REELERS: Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over/ REV. EDWARD
W. CLAYBORN (THE GUITAR EVANGELIST): The Wrong Way to Celebrate
Christmas/ COTTON TOP MOUNTAIN SANCTIFIED SINGERS: Christ Was Born on
Christmas Morn/ WALTER DAVIS: Santa Claus/ NORMAN EDMONDS: Breaking Up
Christmas/ PASQUALE FEIS: Tu Scende Dalle Stelle (Pastorale di Natale)/
REV. J. M. GATES: He Was Born in a Manger/ MARY HARRIS: Happy New Year
Blues/ LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS: Happy New Year/ PAWLO HUMENIUK: Dance under
the Willows (Tanec Pid Werbamy)/ LOS JIBAROS: Décimas de Nacimiento/
KANSAS CITY KITTY: Christmas Morning Blues/ BUELL KAZEE: Lady Gay/ LEAD
BELLY: Christmas Is A-Coming/ LORD BEGINNER: Christmas Morning the Rum
Had Me Yawning/ LORD EXECUTOR: Christmas Is a Joyful Day/ MADDOX
BROTHERS AND ROSE: Jingle Bells/ MCKINNEY'S COTTON PICKERS: Gee, Ain't I
Good to You/ KELLY PACE, AARON BROWN, JOE GREEN, MATTHEW JO: Holy Babe/
BESSIE SMITH: At the Christmas Ball/ VERA HALL WARD: The Last Month of
the Year
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Evidence 26118 |
Blue Xmas - Christmas Blues
Instrumentals |
● CD $13.98 |
Originally released in 2001 this CD features 16
Christmas standards given a blues instrumental rendition by various
modern blues artists in, sometimes, surprising combinations! Michael
Hill, Kim Wilson and Roy Gaines do White Christmas, Joe Louis
Walker, Rusty Zinn and Kim Wilson join forces for Blue Xmas, Son
Seals and Sugar Blue collaborate on Deck The Halls, Otis Rush and
Son Seals work out on We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Tommy Castro
and Corey Harris are featured on We Three Kings and so on!
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Fabulous 133 |
Christmas Goes Country |
● CD $8.98 |
25 tracks, 56 mins, recommended
Out of print - very
limited stock. Since a whole lot of hit Christmas songs were done by
artists usually considered Country, a lot of these will be very familiar
to you. Mixed in with the standards are some choice Holiday nuggets that
help make the collection worth picking up. You get the big ones like
Gene Autry with Here Comes Santa Claus and Frosty The Snowman,
Elvis with Blue Christmas/ White Christmas/ Santa Bring My Baby Back
Home to Me, and two more, and Bobby Helms with Jingle Bell Rock.
It's tracks like The Davis Sisters' Christmas Boogie, Tex
Ritter's Christmas Carols By The Old Corral, and Kitty Wells
Old Kris Kringle, that are the real gems that will thrill your Xmas
revelers. Honorable mentions for Ernest Tubb's I'll Be Walking The
Floor This Christmas, and Brenda Lee's I'm Gonna Lasso Santa
Claus. (JM)
GENE AUTRY: Frosty The Snowman/ Here Comes Santa
Claus/ Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/ THE DAVIS SISTERS: Christmas
Boogie/ BOBBY HELMS: Jingle Bell Rock/ BRENDA LEE: Christy Christmas/
I‘m Gonna Lasso Santa Claus/ BENNY MARTIN: Droopy Little Christmas Tree/
BILL MONROE: Christmas Times A-comin‘/ ELVIS PRESLEY: Blue Christmas/
Here Comes Santa Claus/ I‘ll Be Home For Christmas/ Santa Bring My Baby
Back To Me/ Santa Claus Is Back In Town/ Silent Night/ White Christmas/
GLENDA RAYE: Christmas Candy In July/ TEX RITTER: Christmas Carols By
The Old Corrall/ HANK SNOW: Reindeer Boogie/ ERNEST TUBB: I‘ll Be
Walking The Floor This Christmas/ KITTY WELLS: Old Kris Kringle/ Santa
Claus Is On His Way/ THE WILLS BROTHERS: Jingle Jill And Jangle Joe/
FARON YOUNG: I‘m Gonna Tell Santa Claus On You/ O Little Town Of
Bethlehem
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Gusto GT 0343 |
A Traditional Bluegrass Country
Christmas |
● CD $5.98 |
20 Christmas songs performed by Jeannie Seely (O Holy
Night/ Hark The Herald Angels Sing/ O Little Town Of Bethlehem + 5
more), Mac Wiseman (Go tell It On The Mountain/ Up On The Houstop/
Silent Night + +5 more) and Wilma Lee Cooper (Away In A Manger/ O
Come All Ye Faithful/ Jingle Bells and Deck The Halls.
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Mardi Gras 1015 |
Christmas In New Orleans |
● CD $15.98 |
Xmas tunes New Orleans R&B, jazz and gospel style -
Charmaine Neville (Santa Baby+1), Big Al Carson (Night Before
CHristmas + 1), Tommy Ridgley (SIlver Bells +1), Milton
Batiste (Big Fat Santa Is Coming To Town), The Zion Harmonizers (SIlent
Night+1), etc.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Mistletoe XMS 1001 |
Ghosts Of Christmas Past |
● CD $17.98 |
Wide ranging collection of 29 Christmas songs including
tracks by Dancer Prancer & Nervous, Bob Seger & The Last Heard, Jack
Scott, The Five Keys, Suzy Bogguss, Paul & Paula, Millie Small, The
Little Kids, Sugar Chile Robinson, Cary Grant (!) and more.
SUZY BOGGUSS: Mr Santa (Mr Sandman) (stereo)/ THE
CREW-CUTS: Dance Mr Snowman Dance/ DANCER, PRANCER & NERVOUS: The Happy
Reindeer/ ELMO & PATSY: Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (stereo) (orig
Soundwaves single version/ THE FIVE KEYS: Every Heart Is Home At
Christmas/ BENNY GOODMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA: Jingle Bells/ BARRY GORDON:
Santa Claus Looks Just Like Daddy/ CARY GRANT: Christmas Lullaby/ BOBBY
HELMS: Captain Santa Claus/ THE JAYNETTES: Snowman Snowman Sweet Potato
Nose/ LOUIS JORDAN: Santa Claus, Santa Claus/ EDDIE LAWRENCE: The Merry
Old Philospher/ MARK LINDSAY: What Child Is This? (stereo)/ THE LITTLE
KIDS: Santa Claus Is Stuck in the Chimney/ BOB & DOUG MCKENZIE: The
Twelve Days of Christmas (stereo)/ THE NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS: You Need A
Little Christmas (stereo)/ GILBERT O'SULLIVAN: Christmas Song (stereo)/
PAUL & PAULA: Holiday For Teens (stereo)/ GAYLA PEEVEY: I Want A
Hippopotamus For Christmas/ BOBBY "BORIS" PICKETT: Monster's Holiday
(stereo)/ LOUIS PRIMA: What Will Santa Claus Say?/ GARY PUCKETT: O Holy
Night (stereo)/ SUGAR CHILE ROBINSON: Christmas Boogie/ BOBBY RYDELL &
CHUBBY CHECKER: Jingle Bells Imitations/ JACK SCOTT: There's Trouble
Brewin' (stereo)/ BOB SEGER & THE LAST HEARD: Sock It To Me Santa/
MILLIE SMALL: I've Fallen In Love With A Snowman/ THREE BLONDE MICE:
Ringo Bells/ THE YOUNGSTERS: Christmas In Jail
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Night Train 7005 |
Swing Time Christmas |
● CD $14.98 |
16 bluesy Christmas delicacies - mostly from the Swing
Time label - Jimmy Witherspoon, Lloyd Glenn, Mable Scott, Jesse Thomas,
Big Joe Turner, Johnny Moore's 3 Blazers, Lowell Fulson, Charles Brown
and others.
CHARLES BROWN: Merry Christmas Baby/ LOWELL FULSON:
Christmas Party Shuffle (instrumental)/ Lonesome Christmas (part 1)/
Lonesome Christmas (part 2)/ CECIL GANT: Hello Santa Claus/ It's
Christmas Time Once Again/ LLOYD GLENN: Sleigh Ride (alternate Take)/
Sleigh Ride (instrumental)/ DEXTER GORDON: Jingle Jangle Jump/ PETE
JOHNSON: Pete's Holiday Boogie (instrumental)/ JOHNNY MOORE'S THREE
BLAZERS WITH FRANKIE ERVIN: Christmas Eve Baby/ Christmas Everyday/
MABEL SCOTT: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus/ JESSE THOMAS: Christmas
Celebration/ BIG JOE TURNER: Christmas Date Boogie/ JIMMY WITHERSPOON:
How I Hate To See Christmas Come Around
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Sony Legacy 759214 |
A Christmas Gift To You From Phil
Spector |
● CD $9.98 |
The classic Phil Spector Xmas album - The Ronettes, Bobb
B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans, Darlene Love and The Crystals - White
Christmas/ The Bells Of St. Mary/ Sleigh Ride/ I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa
Claus, etc.
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