Christmas album reissues (1 Viewer)

[Ron1973]

What I am excited about is that Real Gone Music is going to the expense of having Vic Anesini at Sony's Battery Studios remaster this CD. This should sound great! Plus, I unfortunately do not have the Bear Family set.

I never did have the CD. I went to a local thrift store years ago and picked up what I thought was the LP of it. I am always studious about checking to make sure the right LP is in the jacket. Somehow, I forgot to do it that time and wound up with some album that was so crappy that I don't remember what it was!

 

[Likecats]

Look what I received in the mail on Wednesday from Walmart. It was the last copy they had.



 

[Rodney]

Thanks to the earlier posts by @Mike Frezon, @davidmatychuk, and @Ron1973 regarding the Louvin Brothers, i picked up their Christmas CD a while back and today I am playing it, "and Louvin it"! <-- See what I did there?

 

[Ron1973]

Look what I received in the mail on Wednesday from Walmart. It was the last copy they had. View attachment 64896 

If you go for rockabilly/country Christmas, see if you can download, or otherwise obtain a copy of, Johnny Horton's lone Christmas song, "They Shined up Rudolph's Nose."

 

[EricSchulz]

Here's the cover art and track listing for Bing At Christmas. Releasing on Nov. 22.

 

[Mike Frezon]

I gave a try to a recent CD re-release of some Carpenters tunes--supplemented by the Royal Philharmonic (kinda the same idea as this Bing CD)--and was left underwhelmed.

You can sample a few tracks of this Bing CD on Amazon (by heading to the mp3 page). I dunno... Maybe.

 

[Likecats]

If you go for rockabilly/country Christmas, see if you can download, or otherwise obtain a copy of, Johnny Horton's lone Christmas song, "They Shined up Rudolph's Nose."

This song is on the CD.

 

[Mike Frezon]

I ordered Atkins, Anderson, Black and the "Great Songs" disc.

And took delivery today!

Thx RealGone Music!

 

[BobO'Link]

I gave a try to a recent CD re-release of some Carpenters tunes--supplemented by the Royal Philharmonic (kinda the same idea as this Bing CD)--and was left underwhelmed.

You can sample a few tracks of this Bing CD on Amazon (by heading to the mp3 page). I dunno... Maybe.

The few tracks you can sample didn't do much for me but I'll reserve judgement for now... I don't have a problem with the originals and really don't see the need for this type of manipulation.

 

[Mike Frezon]

This complete collection of Bing's Christmas tunes is the one I highly recommend to anyone who'll listen.

It is really terrific.

 

[RobertR]

Probably safe place to make a note about how disappointed I was with our local radio channels. Not a single one offered up all day Christmas music this year. Only one channel said their all day music would start Christmas EVE. Boooo.

Over the past 20+years we've always had at least one local channel offer 24/7 Christmas music starting at least on December 1st. Now we have had a station take it a bit too far and they started Halloween night. That was a bit much.

I ended up having to use Spotify for all my in car Christmas music needs. I hope next year we get at least one station to step up and offer music more than just 1 day.

KOST in Los Angeles has ALREADY started playing Christmas music.

 

[EricSchulz]

KOST in Los Angeles has ALREADY started playing Christmas music.

A station in Chicago started Nov. 1st.

 

[Rodney]

This complete collection of Bing's Christmas tunes is the one I highly recommend to anyone who'll listen.

It is really terrific.

I bought this when you mentioned it two years ago in this thread and you are right,it’s a good one!

 

[Mike Frezon]

Two full discs of classic Bing Christmas music!

 

[Osato]

Not a reissue yet, but I found a copy of this release....

https://musicbrainz.org/release/56797fa8-c809-463e-adbb-cbaf76c538e8

 

[Likecats]

Got this delivered on Wednesday.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Got this delivered on Wednesday. View attachment 65770

Easily some of the best Christmas music ever recorded. You will enjoy that very much William!

If I had to pick two sets of Christmas music to take to a desert island (and if you saw the size of my collection, you'd forgive me TWO selections rather than just one), I'd take that Bing collection I linked-to several posts back and the complete Carpenters Christmas music release.

 

[Ron1973]

A station in Chicago started Nov. 1st.

One of our local stations normally starts then, but this year they opted for Nov. 14th as well. They're good for "on the go" listening in the car, but it's not something I'd want to listen to 24/7 because it's so dang repetitive.

 

[BobO'Link]

Easily some of the best Christmas music ever recorded. You will enjoy that very much William!

If I had to pick two sets of Christmas music to take to a desert island (and if you saw the size of my collection, you'd forgive me TWO selections rather than just one), I'd take that Bing collection I linked-to several posts back and the complete Carpenters Christmas music release.

I ordered a copy of that Bing collection. I already have a few of his Christmas CDs but in checking titles found at least 1/3 of that set I don't have. I really like Bing, especially his Christmas material, so... It should arrive sometime in the next few days.

I'd select one of my Cambridge Singers albums for a 2nd desert island choice. But it'd be a very difficult choice as I easily have a dozen or so Christmas albums I really, really, like.

Singing in my Church's Christmas program really puts a crimp in my Christmas Music listening. I tend to do most of it in the car (my wife doesn't care for the "classical" or rock titles I listen to) but in the month leading up to the program I exclusively listen to that music so I'll know it when performance day arrives (which was last night, this afternoon, and tomorrow afternoon). We have a really good selection of music this year (7 excellent songs) but just those 7 for over a month... Monday morning will bring a full slate of "regulars" for the drive to/from work. I'm ready!

 

[Ron1973]

Here's the cover art and track listing for Bing At Christmas. Releasing on Nov. 22. View attachment 64897

I'm listening to it as we speak. I thoroughly enjoyed the work they did with Elvis Presley's music, so I decided to give it a try. Not too bad. I don't think it's quite up to par sound quality wise with "newer" artists like Elvis and Roy Orbison. The earlier Bing material sounds a bit out of place with the updated background.

Easily some of the best Christmas music ever recorded. You will enjoy that very much William!

If I had to pick two sets of Christmas music to take to a desert island (and if you saw the size of my collection, you'd forgive me TWO selections rather than just one), I'd take that Bing collection I linked-to several posts back and the complete Carpenters Christmas music release.

Karen is hands down my favorite female performer. She had such a beautiful voice.