Only a little more than a month and it will be time.
>>127985955The singer that haunts the nightmares of Mitch Miller Autist
>>127985955No...no...NOOOO!!!!!!!
>>127985968as well as Salvation Army bins everywhere
>>127986113that's not from the classic era of Christmas schlock in the 40s-50s-60s so I don't count it
>>127985955For me, it's Doris Day. They must have pressed millions of these things, because I still see them in thrift stores.
>>127988243This was one of the last records she did for CBS. It was from that period when they had this super glassy production that made it sound like you had the Metropolitan in your living room. I think 1-2 of the tracks are remakes of 78 era recordings she did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doris_Day_Christmas_AlbumSilver Bells was a remake from 1950; I prefer the original recording myself. The rest are all new recordings. She also did Here Comes Santa Claus in the late 40s but they didn't revisit that one.
I cannot wait until I hear this song and it's beautiful synths again.
I listened to about 20 different versions of Sleigh Ride last Xmas season. Amy Grant's version from the album posted in here was not too bad, one of the better ones definitely. There are some horrible ones though like Steve & Eydie's and of course Meghan Trainor's was the very worst of all. The Andrews Sisters one was pretty good, one of the best versions.
>>127986139fortunately Teresa Brewer never really did a proper Christmas album. btw that's a big distinction as to which pre-Beatles singers stayed in the collective memory and which didn't. having a Christmas album helps.
>>127988243I heard this one played at the mall over Christmas '23, I remember it well. Was shopping for a mattress.
Como was notorious for refusing to remake his 78 era hits but he did make an exception for Christmas songs.
>>127986113>>127985955>>127988243but we'll get to those after Thanksgiving when the time comes
How about some 50's orchestral?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB6AFT6hxLEEarly retail 'muzak' systems were basically a stack of these kinds of albums in rotation.
>>127991407True. It reminds me of gay clubs. Big Beatles fan btw
so when Connie Francis kicked it a lot of people said she didn't get remembered by history that much for a pop star of her huge presence back in the day. it was probably because she didn't have a Christmas hit whereas you will never escape Brenda Lee for six weeks every year.
>>127991815back then record labels often avoided putting out singles in December since it was reasoned that only Christmas songs charted at that time of year
