Christmas Music

[Late]

2 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Urbie Green's "A Cool Yuletide" is pretty awesome.

Yes!!

[Late]

A few years back, Real Gone Music had a Christmas album reissue campaign (think Andre Kostelanetz, George Melachrino, Jack Jones)—mainly albums from the 50's and 60's—that brought back vintage holiday music from the Lp days onto compact disc. I've noticed that some of these titles are now out-of-print and going for absurdly high prices on the used market.

What Christmas albums from the 50's and 60's did you listen to back in the day, and what do you recommend? I always liked the Firestone holiday albums, even if some tracks were fairly tepid. I think my family had 2 or 3 of the volumes.

[Ed S]

I fondly remember those Firestone records, and while some of the stuff was pretty lame, the memories I have of those Christmas songs being played at Christmas time as a kid are not.

A few albums I enjoyed then and have CDs of now are the Nat King Cole  - The Christmas Song, Christmas with Chet Atkins, Glen Campbell - That Christmas Feeling, and Harry Belafonte - To Wish You A Merry Christmas.