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(Date Posted:01/12/2011 18:23)

How many Christmas albums did Raymond Lefevre have?
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RE:Raymond Lefevre
(Date Posted:01/12/2011 19:35)


Raymond Lefevre had just one Christmas album: 1968's Merry Christmas, which was released by Kapp Records. It is currently available on CD as a Japanese import. It has been digitally remastered and sounds great. The two main differences between this reissue CD and the original Kapp Records LP, is that the songs are not in the original order, and regrettably, it does not have that great original album cover artwork. Click here.





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RE:Raymond Lefevre
(Date Posted:01/15/2011 23:26)

I hope Chip forgives me for veering off-topic, but we can't talk about Mr. Lefevre without mentioning his most famous non-Christmas track, the classic 1968 instrumental "Soul Coaxing".  One of my absolute, all-time favorites!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILFsdDcgwdQ



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RE:Raymond Lefevre
(Date Posted:01/16/2011 04:30)


Yes, this was indeed Mr. Lefevre's biggest world-wide hit and a great song. I won't ask you to remember when it came out in 1968 because I know it was several years before you were born, but it was the same year -- in fact, the very same time of the year (February and March) -- when Mr. Lefevre's fellow Frenchman, the great Paul Mauriat, was rocking the charts with an even bigger all-instrumental song, the spectacular smash hit Love Is Blue (aka L'amour est bleu), which spent an incredible five weeks at the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. To this day, Mr. Mauriat is the only French artist to ever top the Billboard Hot 100.

As for Mr. Lefevre's Soul Coaxing (aka Ame Câline), it peaked at an impressive #37 on the Billboard Hot 100. By the way, even though Soul Coaxing was Raymond Lefevre's biggest world-wide hit, it wasn't his biggest hit here in the United States. That honor goes to The Day The Rains Came, which peaked at #30 on the Hot 100 in 1958.

I really miss those days when great all-instrumental songs like these could do so well on the Billboard charts.
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RE:Raymond Lefevre
(Date Posted:01/18/2011 13:12)

Hi Chip,

This is coincidental.  I had a Dr's appointment today and being it is quite far from where I live, I stopped at a couple thrift stores that are close to where my Dr is and I found Raymond Lefevre And His Grande Orchestra "The Day The Rains Came and Other Great Hits from France".

It's on KAPP Records KL-1103  The jacket is in bad shape so I'm thinking this may have been a Radio Station copy.  (Not specifically released for Radio Stations)  Or the person put stickers on it so they could catalog it somehow.

There are White stickers in a couple of spots on the jacket covering up parts of the jacket and they also used a lot of scotch tape on the jacket but it's yellowed and dried out.  Then they took a magic marker and crossed out the 5th song on side two on the jacket and on the record itself.  So I have no idea what the song is supposed to be.

Do you have this information?  Also, is this the actual album that "The Day The Rains Came" was from that peaked at # 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958?

The jacket shows Mr. Lefevre standing by a grand piano and there are a bunch of Violin's, maybe  Viola's Cello's and a Bass laying on the floor.

The record label is Red and White.

Would you have a good picture of the front and back of this album jacket?  This jacket is in such bad shape that I can't even read the information that is on the back below the five other KAPP albums.

Thanks.


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RE:Raymond Lefevre
(Date Posted:01/19/2011 00:14)


Yes, that is the album the song came from, Susan. I have it somewhere in my archives. When I have time, I'll try to find it, and when I do, I'll do scans of the front and back of the jacket and send you the pictures as jpegs in an attachment in a private email.


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RE:Raymond Lefevre
(Date Posted:01/19/2011 09:40)

Thanks so much Chip,

I really appreciate it as being the jacket is in such bad shape and they blacked out one of the tracks on the jacket and album, I will know what that track is.

No hurry though.  I'm just glad the record is in much better shape than the jacket.

Thanks again.

(Message edited by Christmas Always On 01/19/2011 09:52)
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RE:Raymond Lefevre
(Date Posted:06/04/2012 16:18)

I recently procured the Taiwanese version of this CD, issued by Decca Records Taiwan in 1993.  It follows the same track listing as the Japanese CD that Chip linked to above, but has different cover art.

Unless I'm missing something, it seems that these CD's include a track not present on the Kapp Records LP release - CD Track 10, "La Nuit."

Was the Kapp Records LP itself an abridged domestic version of an international album?  Or was "La Nuit" tacked on to the CD releases from an unrelated LeFevre album?


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RE:Raymond Lefevre
(Date Posted:06/04/2012 18:33)


The 1968 Kapp Records LP had 11 tracks and is the original release. It was not an abridged version of some other LP. The song La Nuit is a bonus track that was added to the CD. The song was originally released three years before the Christmas LP in 1965 on the LP, Palmares des Chansons, Vol.1.

By the way, the "f" is not capitalized in Mr. Lefevre's last name.
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