What Holiday Music Are You Spinninng Now

[patricia]

On Vinyl:

A Very Special Christmas - Hagood Hardy

The Ventures' Christmas Album

Wishing You A Merry Christmas - A classical album compilation featuring the Morman Tabernacle Choir, The Philidelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.

To Wish You A Merry Christmas - Harry Belafonte

Merry Christmas - The Mills Brothers

[Noj]

Kenny Burrell - Have Yourself A Soulful Little Christmas

Joe Pass - Six String Santa

Duke Pearson - Merry Ole Soul

Plus a cd I have that has Paul Simon & Steve Martin doing "Silver Bells" and Porky Pig singing "Blue Christmas."

[sidewinder]

Love this bah humbug blog review of Duke P's 'Merry Ole Soul'

...here's my only concession to the festive season.Bombarded with shite Christmas songs from all directions (Take That AND Cliff Richard-what a double whammy for complete bollocks this year.One old c**t against five young but even bigger c**ts - tis the season to be utterly despondent if you are within a mile of a radio etc)

But Ho Ho Ho here's Duke striking back with a jazz Christmas Cracker.Yes it sounds like it should be crap-but it aint!!!

Duke pulls in Bob Cranshaw,Mickey Roker,and Airto for a selection of festive tunes and a very fine spin he puts on them too.The concept appears to be hokey as hell but the reinterpretations are cliche free and have some great moments.As I said I hate Christmas music(if i hear that bloody Slade record again I will pay for someone to shoot Noddy's fucking nuts) but this is really very good.

Edited December 22, 2006 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

Mmm - Airto and his Cuica on 'Jingle Bells'...

Edited December 22, 2006 by sidewinder

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Just got this year’s Christmas album

So pleased.

MG

[Big Al]

On Vinyl:

The Ventures' Christmas Album

You have that on vinyl? I am sooooooo jealous. I'll be completely green with envy if you tell me it's a mono copy.

[Big Al]

Love this bah humbug blog review of Duke P's 'Merry Ole Soul'

...here's my only concession to the festive season.Bombarded with shite Christmas songs from all directions (Take That AND Cliff Richard-what a double whammy for complete bollocks this year.One old c**t against five young but even bigger c**ts - tis the season to be utterly despondent if you are within a mile of a radio etc)

But Ho Ho Ho here's Duke striking back with a jazz Christmas Cracker.Yes it sounds like it should be crap-but it aint!!!

Duke pulls in Bob Cranshaw,Mickey Roker,and Airto for a selection of festive tunes and a very fine spin he puts on them too.The concept appears to be hokey as hell but the reinterpretations are cliche free and have some great moments.As I said I hate Christmas music(if i hear that bloody Slade record again I will pay for someone to shoot Noddy's fucking nuts) but this is really very good.

[Big Al]

I've been spinnin'Big Al's Christmas BFT (from last year, IIRC)... there's some good stuff on that one!

Just catchin' up on this thread. Thanks man!!!

[Uncle Skid]

I've been spinnin'Big Al's Christmas BFT (from last year, IIRC)... there's some good stuff on that one!

Just catchin' up on this thread. Thanks man!!!

Thank you for a great compilation!

[JohnS]

Jimmy Ponder; A Guitar Christmas

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Jimmy Ponder; A Guitar Christmas

I pulled that out for play later today, too.

MG

[GA Russell]

I'm surprised there haven't been more posters to this thread over the past month. I guess not many of us here are into Christmas music.

[mikeweil]

I simply wasn't at home much during the last 4 weeks or didn't have much time to post.

My current favourite to get me in the mood while setting up the Christmas tree this afternoon:

No matter what people think of her - I like her singing, find she plays a nice piano and this album one of the most swingin' Xmas affairs.

[mikeweil]

One question: which is the preferable version of Nat King Cole's album?

They have 20, 14, and 22 tracks, respectively - I guess the third is the best choice?

Edited December 23, 2006 by mikeweil

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I'm surprised there haven't been more posters to this thread over the past month. I guess not many of us here are into Christmas music.

Nine pages isn't too bad and it's not Christmas Eve yet.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I just noticed it's 6 pages, because this is last year's thread. So, already it's twice as long as last year. And six pages in 39 days is 0.15 pages per day.

The "Which Mosaic are you enjoying" thread has 109 pages after 940 days; and average of 0.115 pages per day.

Am I a fuckin' nerd or what?

YAY!

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Etta Jones & Houston Person - A Christmas together

Jimmy Ponder - Guitar Christmas

MG

[Tom 1960]

George Winston - December

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The Soul Stirrers with R H Harris - Shine on me

Kenny Burrell - Have yourself a soulful little Christmas

Jimmy McGriff - Christmas with Jimmy McGriff

then some 45s

Lowell Fulson - Lonesome Christmas pts 1 & 2 - Hollywood reissue

Charles Brown with the Three Blazers - Merry Christmas baby/Lloyd Glenn - Sleigh ride - Hollywood reissue

Charles Brown - Please come home for Christmas/Amos Milburn - Christmas (comes but once a year) - King orig

Charles Brown - It's Christmas time/Christmas finds me lonely wanting you - King orig

Charles Brown - Merry Christmas baby/Please come home for Christmas - Jewel orig (early '70s version with wah wah guitars!)

MG

Edited December 24, 2006 by The Magnificent Goldberg

[Durium]

JIMMY SMITH

Christmas '64

Keep swinging

Durium

[patricia]

On Vinyl:

The Ventures' Christmas Album

You have that on vinyl? I am sooooooo jealous. I'll be completely green with envy if you tell me it's a mono copy.

Much as I would love to make you jealous, Big Al, it's the stereo issue [they call it visual sound Stereo] on the Dolton label. It has a nice picture of three guitars and a pair of drumsticks on a Christmas wreath on the cover.

But, it's early stereo by the Ventures which always seemed to me be a conscious effort by this group, particularly in their surfing albums, to always have the jumping across the room feature. But, that aside, it's a favourite.

Edited December 24, 2006 by patricia

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

On Vinyl:

The Ventures' Christmas Album

You have that on vinyl? I am sooooooo jealous. I'll be completely green with envy if you tell me it's a mono copy.

Much as I would love to make you jealous, Big Al, it's the stereo issue [they call it visual sound Stereo] on the Dolton label. It has a nice picture of three guitars and a pair of drumsticks on a Christmas wreath on the cover.

But, it's early stereo by the Ventures which always seemed to me be a conscious effort by this group, particularly in their surfing albums, to always have the jumping across the room feature. But, that aside, it's a favourite.

On some old record players (and even some hifis, I think) you could (or had to) press a button to turn the amp on to stereo or mono. Pity, when you get records like that, that you can't do it on modern ones. Same for the electronically rechannelled stuff.

MG

[patricia]

On Vinyl:

The Ventures' Christmas Album

You have that on vinyl? I am sooooooo jealous. I'll be completely green with envy if you tell me it's a mono copy.

Much as I would love to make you jealous, Big Al, it's the stereo issue [they call it visual sound Stereo] on the Dolton label. It has a nice picture of three guitars and a pair of drumsticks on a Christmas wreath on the cover.

But, it's early stereo by the Ventures which always seemed to me be a conscious effort by this group, particularly in their surfing albums, to always have the jumping across the room feature. But, that aside, it's a favourite.

On some old record players (and even some hifis, I think) you could (or had to) press a button to turn the amp on to stereo or mono. Pity, when you get records like that, that you can't do it on modern ones. Same for the electronically rechannelled stuff.

MG

MG do you know if anything bad actually happened if you played a mono record on the stereo setting?

There seemed to be actual fear of playing the wrong kind of record on the wrong setting at the time.

Then, it seems to me that there were some records in the transitional period that assured us that they could be played on a stereo system without damaging it, which re enforced the fear that it was possible to damage your brand new system by playing your old monos on it.

I remember a certain sense of relief on reading the serious note to that effect on the label.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

On Vinyl:

The Ventures' Christmas Album

You have that on vinyl? I am sooooooo jealous. I'll be completely green with envy if you tell me it's a mono copy.

Much as I would love to make you jealous, Big Al, it's the stereo issue [they call it visual sound Stereo] on the Dolton label. It has a nice picture of three guitars and a pair of drumsticks on a Christmas wreath on the cover.

But, it's early stereo by the Ventures which always seemed to me be a conscious effort by this group, particularly in their surfing albums, to always have the jumping across the room feature. But, that aside, it's a favourite.

On some old record players (and even some hifis, I think) you could (or had to) press a button to turn the amp on to stereo or mono. Pity, when you get records like that, that you can't do it on modern ones. Same for the electronically rechannelled stuff.

MG

MG do you know if anything bad actually happened if you played a mono record on the stereo setting?

There seemed to be actual fear of playing the wrong kind of record on the wrong setting at the time.

Then, it seems to me that there were some records in the transitional period that assured us that they could be played on a stereo system without damaging it, which re enforced the fear that it was possible to damage your brand new system by playing your old monos on it.

I remember a certain sense of relief on reading the serious note to that effect on the label.

What they used to say was that you could play a stereo record on a mono system without damaging it if you used a stero cartridge and stylus. That's what I did. I had mono record players, then a mono amp when I moved to hifi, until the mid '70s, when my wife protested about this amp in the living room with all its dusty valves showing! But I'd been buying stereo LPs for ages, because they had stopped making mono ones.

I'm not sure about the reverse being true. I never heard that. I play mono records on my system without a qualm. On the system, all that could be damaged would be the stylus and I really doubt that. As for damaging the records, I should think it's undetectable, it there is any damage.

The real argument for using a stereo cartridge and stylus on a stereo record was always that a mono setup wouldn't capture the way the sides of the groove varied, so you wouldn't hear proper reproduction of the sound. But no one actually said that in marketing LPs; it was always this damage thing.

MG

[patricia]

But no one actually said that in marketing LPs; it was always this damage thing.

MG

Exactly. But, wasn't that around the time that records got flimsier, Dynagroove etc.?

There were some that said on the label they could be played on either mono OR stereo. I never understood what magic would take place.

Edited December 24, 2006 by patricia