Getting the (snow) ball rolling on 2010, here's a various artists album,
Christmas Is For Children, from Lion Records (L70079) dated 1958, featuring a trio of kiddie tunes from Barry Gordon ("I Like Christmas"), Little Rita Faye ("I Fell Out of the Christmas Tree" — for you rural Christmas nuts) and Leslie Uggams ("The Fat, Fat Man"). You'll find the sound quality varies between each track (this was a severely loved LP, as evidenced by the condition of the jacket), as the recordings likely are from a range of dates — the Korn Kobblers tracks have that distinctive '30s-40s style that reminds me of the horrific big band music from the end of Stanley Kubrick's
The Shining, and the Jimmy Durante selections sound like recordings he would eventually re-perform and release in later years (in fact "Frosty, The Snow Man" here features the original lyric "
I'll be back again someday"). Well, that's enough blathering from me. Let's get on with the download...
Please enjoy:
Christmas Is For Children
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Sweet, thanks for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteNice share to start your season. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Glad to see you back!
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ReplyDeleteThe Korn Kobblers!
ReplyDeleteWow!! My family and I were just trying to find this album - we had it when we were little and all of us remember it so well! I will share it with my mom and siblings....great memories!
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Brenda G.
Who does the Tom and Jerry track? The cover says Sam Ulano but you list somebody else in your track tags? Perhaps that's Sam's real name (I have no idea) or does the record not agree with the cover? I guess I should compare the track to another Sam Ulano track I have somewhere...
ReplyDeleteErnie — the cover says Sam Ulano, but the actual LP and the back cover say Bret Morrison, who apparently narrated other Tom & Jerry stories on Lion LPs.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back for another magical Christmas in Stereo!
ReplyDeleteLove your posts and, of course, the wonderful and hard-to-find Christmas music. Thanks and Merry Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI wish this Waltons' Christmas Album had your excellent remastering skills applied to it:
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I also tried to find this album, but I failed always)) Thanks for it, your blog is very useful , especially before Christmas!
ReplyDeleteWow, I was just trying, unsuccessfully, to record our Christmas is for Children album. The album had been missing for over 10 years but was recently found. I wanted to preserve it on our computer but wasn't having much luck. I was ecstatic when my husband and son-in-law found it on your site and made a cd for me. Because the album was my sisters it will bring tears when she opens her gift this Christmas and finds the much loved album and cd.
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