HITSVILLE U.S.A.! THE JACKSON 5 CHRISTMAS ALBUM: 1970

‘JACKSON 5 CHRISTMAS ALBUM’

ABOUT THIS LP

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‘Jackson 5 Christmas Album’ is the first Christmas studio album (and fourth overall) by Motown family quintet the Jackson 5, released in October 1970. Included on the Christmas Album is the Jackson 5’s hit single version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”. The Jackson 5’s versions of “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” and “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” remain frequent radio requests during the Christmas season. The album spent all four weeks at the number one position on Billboard magazine’s special Christmas Albums chart that the magazine published in December 1970, making it the best-selling Christmas album of that year, and, would repeat also in 1972.

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(Source: Wikipedia)

Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life

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JACKSON 5 CHRISTMAS ALBUM (COMPLETE LP) * 1970

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CHRISTMAS, 1967: THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!

Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life

THE DEAN MARTIN CHRISTMAS SHOW

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Aired on the night of December 21, 1967 on Detroit NBC WWJ-TV (Channel 4), 10:00 p.m., 53 years ago, on this day. Guests: Dean and Jeanne Martin and their children, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Frank Jr.

(Source: Detroit Free Press; Thursday, December 21, 1967)

THE DEAN MARTIN CHRISTMAS SHOW * NBC-TV * THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1967

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THE SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS! A 1966 HOLIDAY ALBUM MEMORY

A DEAN MARTIN CHRISTMAS ALBUM’

ABOUT THIS LP

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Dean Martin Christmas Album is a 1966 studio album by Dean Martin arranged by Ernie Freeman and Bill Justis. This was Martin’s only album of Christmas music released on Reprise Records (his only other Christmas album, A Winter Romance, having been released in 1959 on Capitol Records). Ricci James Martin, Martin’s son, wrote in a biography of his father that The Dean Martin Christmas Album was the only one of his father’s albums that was played in the Martin household, his parents seldom listening to Dean Martin’s music. Billboard magazine reported in its December 3, 1966 issue that The Dean Martin Christmas Album was on top of its “Best Bets for Christmas” chart.

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(Source: Wikipedia)

Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life

Click on (COMPLETE LP) for the complete track listing on this album.

 

THE DEAN MARTIN CHRISTMAS ALBUM * (COMPLETE LP) * 1966

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A HOLIDAY RECORDS COUNTDOWN! 05 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

‘THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY’

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The Little Drummer Boy” (originally known as “Carol of the Drum“) is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer and teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. First recorded in 1951 by the Trapp Family Singers, the song was further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry Simeone Chorale; the Simeone version was re-released successfully for several years and the song has been recorded many times since.

When the Twentieth-Century Fox Records label contracted Simeone to make a Christmas album in 1958, he assembled a group he called “The Harry Simeone Chorale” and searched for recording material. After being introduced to an obscure song by producer and credited song co-author Henry Onorati, titled “Carol of the Drum” (originally composed by Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941 and arranged to present form by Jack Halloran), Simeone changed the title to “The Little Drummer Boy” and recorded it under that title for his album Sing We Now of Christmas. He received joint authorship-and-composition credit for the album, although he did not actually write or compose the song. The single “The Little Drummer Boy” quickly became extremely popular and scored on the U.S. music charts from 1958 to 1962. The Simeone Chorale had another Christmas success during 1962, with their rendition of the then-new song Do You Hear What I Hear? for Mercury Records.

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(Source: Wikipedia)

Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life

 

DECEMBER 21 * 05 * HARRY SIMEONE CHORALE

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