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Favoriting December 25, 2003: Putting the "Y" back in "CHR_STMAS" (new clickable playlist)



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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments
Rota, Nino  Quanto Mi Piace La Gradisca   Favoriting Amarcord  Cam    CD   
Alfven, Hugo  Swedish Rhapsody #1 (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Fifty Years of Vox Recordings  Vox Box  1995  CD  Baltimore Symphony Orchestra cond. by Sergiu Comissiona 
Arthur Lyman  Silver Bells (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting With a Christmas Vibe  Ryko    CD   
Melgard, Al  March of the Wooden Soldiers (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting at the Chicago Stadium Organ  Audio Fidelity  1958  Vinyl 
Just the thing to calm those drunken hockey fans.
 
Johnny Largo  What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Joyous Sounds of Christmas At the Optigan  Optigan    CD   
Mychols, Lisa  Listen to the Bells Ring (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting       CD  Filling in for Fabio, this DJ hears bells ring 365 days-a-year, Bob Rixon a.k.a. DJ Rix. 
 
Respighi  Adoration of the Magi (Trittico Botticelliano: L'Adorazione Dei Magi - Andante Lento) (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Respighi / Martinu  Media Classics    CD   
Carpenters  Merry Christmas, Darling (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Carpenters Christmas Portrait  A&M  1978  Vinyl  Song first released Nov. 1970. 
 
Pascha, Edmund (1714-1772)  Gloria (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Christmas Mass  Point Classics  1994  CD  Musica Bohemia cond. by Jaroslac Krcek 
Swingle Singers  Aria from Bach Suite in D Major (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Bach's Greatest Hits  Philips    Vinyl  Of course it ain't jazz. The French can't play jazz. 
Mozart, Wolfgang  German Dance No. 3, K. 605 (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Mozart: German Dances  Naxos  1989  CD  Istropolitana Capella Conducted by Johannes Wildner 
 
Lewis, John  England's Carol (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting European Windows  RCA  1958 / 1980  Vinyl  God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Third Stream style. With Connie Kay, drums; Percy Heath, bass; members of the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra.

Third Stream posed a question that didn't really need to be asked. I'm not sure what the question was, but the answer was an emphatic, "no."
 
Jimmy Smith  God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Christmas Cookin'  Verve  1966  Vinyl  Quentin Warren, guitar; Billy Hart, drums. 
Elton Britt  Christmas in November (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Jingle Bell Rock (compilation)  Pickwick    Vinyl 
Maudlin in the extreme. LP also has Lonzo & Oscar singin' "Jangle Bells."
 
Buck Owens & the Buckeroos  All I Want for Christmas Is My Daddy (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Christmas Shopping  Capitol    CD   
 
Rimsky-Korsakov  Christmas Eve (Suite No.2 from the opera) (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Rimsky-Korsakov: The Spirit of Russia  Vox Box  1978 / 1993  CD  Bochum Symphony cond. by Othmar Maga 
 
Stephanie Mills  Sweet Sensation (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Ear Candy (compilation)  20th Century Fox Records  1981  Vinyl 
 
Rascals  I Believe (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Search & Nearness      CD   
Margie Joseph  Christmas Gift (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Soul Christmas  Atlantic    CD   
Lisa Mychols  Closer to Jerusalem (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting          
Hugo Largo  Angels We Have Heard On High (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Winter Wonderland    1988  Vinyl  Compilation 
Blind Boys of Alabama with Mavis Staples  Born in Bethlehem (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Go Tell It On the Mountain  Real World  2003  CD   
Komatsu, Joanie  Po la'i E (Silent Night) (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Ki Ho'alu Christmas: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters  Windham Hill Records  1996  CD  Lovely music. 
 
Grassy Knoll  Silver Bells (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting A Mutated Christmas  Illegal Art    CD   
John Cage  Music for Carillon No. 1 (1952) (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting 25 Year Retrospective Concert  Wergo    CD  Recorded at Town Hall, May 15, 1958 
Jacob, Gordon  The Bells (from William Byrd Suite) (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting British Band Classics Vol. 2,  Mercury    Vinyl  Eastman Wind Ensemble cond. by Frederick Fennell.

The "Living Presence" was a sonic wonder in its time, as my oldest brother loved to demonstrate on his hi fi using this LP.
 
Elgar, Edward  4th Movement: Lento Allegro (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Symphony No. 1  IMP  1991  CD  HallĂ© Orchestra, cond. by James Judd 
  Until that time, just close your eyes & pretend to be asleep. (Listen: Pop-up)           "Voiceover" music provided by MUZAK Stimulus Progression LP No. 3. "Every quarter-hour of MUZAK programming begins relatively quietly and grows steadily more stimulating." 


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