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Hi,
I lucked out. I bought this at a Goodwill for 2 bucks because
I like the quality of the Readers Digest Collectors Edition boxed sets.I had found it impossible to find Xmas music like we had in the 60's.
The recording stinks, or the engineer screwed with the mix, usually the selection is plain wrong in some way.But this is good. The sound quality is good, it was made in the 60's,
and it has the right people. By right people, I don't mean the best artists, it has Gene Autrey, Steve and Edy, Robert Goulet and the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir. I was going to link you to an ebay auction that had it.
No luck there. You see them from time to time, it's a red box with 3 lps with the words Christams Music from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (and goes on to list several other artists, about 25 in all).
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I confess, round the tree it's mainly CDs. Love the old radio & TV broadcast compilations of Bing (w/ Frank Sinatra) Mills Brothers and Nat K.C. Also assorted 30's - 40's Big Band reworkings. Claude Thornhill's "Snowfall" gets me every time, even better than Charlie Brown.Some how, unless we are talking Bach or Handel, I don't play Christmas records when I'm alone. I have a stack, but I don't remember what's there.
Of course when I was 7 yrs old it was my favorite.
Ok, I confess, if I find one at the record shop I'm buying it.
Bravo,
Its our number #1 played albumn at Christmass time. I have 3 little boys and they love it.
Pat
They were all the same guy.
You're probably one of those wacky conspiracy theorists who think David Seville's "real" name was Ross Bagdasarian, or something looney like that.
Funny, I was recently reading a book about Cartoon music, (okay, they let me pick anything here in the institution), and Bagdasarian was his own chapter, pretty much.Interesting topic overall --- at the point where they were asking the composer of the Jetson's theme who did the "Daughter Judy solo", I knew I was amongst kindred spirits.....
I also like traditional Christmas music like Andy Williams, Peggy Lee, Letterman. Some albums that are good musically and sonically are the Capital records with the CP logo. "Spirit of Christmas" and The Sound of Christmas Vol 2. Excellent vocals. Merry Christmas by Andy Williams with the 360 stereo is excellent. I have a couple albums by the Morman Tabernacle Chior and the sonics are a bit disapointing. Probably hard to mic this. Musically very good though. The Johnny Mathis Gold Record is another good one where it is all red with him sitting? in center of album.
Only Christmas (Christ Mass) Music. I'll go for the big Symphony style any day. The more people playing the merrier.
The written shortening Xmas for "Christmas" is quite old, and is part of a large group of abbreviations based on Greek letters.If we recall, the letter H in the profane oath Jesus H. Christ is derived from the Greek letter eta (which looks like the Roman letter "H"), as the second letter of the word Jesus when written in Greek.
Similarly, the name Christ has for a thousand years been abbreviated as X, which is not the Roman letter "eks," but the Greek letter "chi," standing for the first letter of Christ when written in Greek as "Christos" (as transcribed into Roman letters). Some of the words using this abbreviation are X, Xp (Greek chi-rho, or "Chr"), and Xt for "Christ," Xren for "christen," and Xtian for "Christian."
The use of Xmas for "Christmas" is first found in the sixteenth century, in the slightly expanded spelling X'temmas; the Xmas form was in use by the eighteenth century. The X has always been used in religious contexts, and was often lavishly decorated in manuscripts, for example the glorious Chi-Rho page of the Book of Kells, the ninth-century illuminated gospels. The assumption that the abbreviation is somehow "weak" or "irreligious" since it "removes" the Christ from "Christmas" is a thoroughly modern idea.
It should come as no surprise that throughout its history, Xmas has been found more often in letters or other informal works where space is valued. We should note that Xmas and other X abbreviations were usually found in the writings of educated people who knew their Greek.
We should also note, though, that in modern use Xmas is most commonly found in advertisements and the like. For this and other reasons, the abbreviation is viewed with prejudice, and so it would be wise for its use to be confined to informal contexts, its long history notwithstanding.
I wish you all a very happy holiday season.
nt
I've been writing Christ as an X with a short line above it, when making notes for myself, ever since taking Systematic Theology 25 years ago.It implies no disrespect (and none should automatically be inferred) except by those who would use the shorthand to dismiss or circumduct the impetus for the holiday.
... worth looking for... everything from Gregorian chants to 19th century carols. One of my three favorite Christmas albums (and I LOVE Christmas music). Some stuff on that album that I'd never heard before (e.g., "the Huron Indian Carol"... which is also on Bruce Cockburn's excellent "Christmas" album).I am a sucker also for the 1960's collections sold by W.T. Grants and in grocery stores!
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