http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelogAimoo CityAimooen-USAimoo http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-5918820/TopicID-1924783/GoToTopic.html Motown Mike 2013-06-20 18:26:42.143 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Time to pester you again, Chip. Sorry!Linked below is the Amazon page for a CD collection called Leroy Anderson's Greatest Hits. Included on the page are MP3 sound samples of all the tracks that you can click on and listen to. Track #3 is given as "Sleigh Ride (Reader's Digest Mastered)". Liste http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-484235/TopicID-2292669/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-20 11:45:11.143 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Susan,Unfortunately, you just missed a chance last March to own a copy of the original l971 release of the Columbia House 2-record set. There was a vendor on eBay (waynecharyake) who had a copy for sale with a starting bid of only $1.49. The good news is that the auction ended with no bidders; so if http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-483950/TopicID-2292669/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-20 09:57:06.727 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Sorry Chip,It's very confusing being you stated that they may have used leftover jackets from 1971 for their 1972 release, paraphrasing.  So I guess I'm questioning, that if they happed to have leftover jackets from 1971, would they have kept the 1971 Catalog Number on the jacket?  Or wo http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-483219/TopicID-2292669/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-20 05:30:10.497 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC I'm not sure what you are asking, Susan, but if you read again what I said in my post above it clearly explains everything.I posted images of the 1973 Ronco Christmas LP below. And below the Ronco album is another gatefold "pop-up" Christmas LP release: this one was the foreign release of German sin http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-482949/TopicID-2292669/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-20 02:52:18.02 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Thanks Chip,I could be wrong, but I think there is still at least 1 more Gatefold out there with a pop-up Christmas scene.  I had forgotten about the other Ronco one, but I can still picture a different pop-up in my mind, but can't quite focus in on what the album is.Regarding Columbia House, i http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-482790/TopicID-2292669/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-20 01:24:10.8 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Susan,Ronco had a second gatefold  "pop-up" Christmas LP which was released in 1974 entitled Ronco Presents A Christmas Gift (Columbia Special Products catalog #P12430).   With regard to your copy of the Columbia House LP, what probably happened is that Columbia had jackets left over from http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-482357/TopicID-2292669/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-19 22:12:00.877 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Thanks Chip,I did realize that this was actually released for the Record Club Members as it did show "Columbia House" on the jacket and if it had been released for retail sale, I think it would have shown Columbia Records, but that is just a guess.  (I may have even purchased this back in 1971 http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-480463/TopicID-2292669/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-19 10:22:24.593 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC No problem Susan; I don't mind reposting information if needed -- we all forget things from time-to-time!As for that 2-record set The Best-Loved Music Of Christmas, it was released by Columbia Records via their Columbia House division in 1971 with the catalog #P2S-5622 (the disc ID numbers http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-479961/TopicID-2292669/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-19 06:52:03.703 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Chip,I don't know what happened, I replied this morning, but my reply is gone.  I will try to remember what I had said.First off I apologized for not consciously reading the explanation about why you didn't include Compilation Albums, with the exception of a few.  I didn't mean to frustrat http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-477955/TopicID-2290759/GoToTopic.html Motown Mike 2013-06-18 18:01:54.927 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Here's a link to the very funny Annie Hall scene (complete with the Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus music) that the OP describes:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4j0bNzILCQ http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-477271/TopicID-2292669/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-18 11:56:29.903 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Susan,In my opening statement on the thread that contains my Top 300, I explain in detail why compilation albums as a general rule are not awarded a position in my Top 300. I will repost the germane paragraph below:With only one exception, the great collector’s series compilation albums (Goodyea http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-0/TopicID-2292669/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-18 07:51:21.007 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Chip,I thought this album "The Best-Love Music of Christmas" by Various Artists, was in your top 300, but when I searched the page for a specific word, "Best" its only appears twice using the "Edit" "Find" feature in my browser.  If I used "The" or "Christmas" I would have gotten several result http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-459707/TopicID-2290766/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-13 08:13:15.773 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Warlock,It's OK to call me by my first name, Susan.I think the first time I heard anything by Mannheim Steamroller was when I had called Apple Computer Customer Support.  I remember having Internet Access, but basically, it was only for BBS and Echo Mail and you had to dial the specific phone http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-459350/TopicID-2290766/GoToTopic.html Winter_Warlock 2013-06-13 05:25:14.343 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC YuleLogAndEggNog, yes, that's a great tune!Christmas Always, it's interesting that you brought up Mannheim's "Deck the Halls," because TWC is where I was first introduced to that song, and the group, for that matter. Not only was it being used in Local Forecasts, but they also occasionally played th http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-454307/TopicID-2290759/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-11 20:30:11.26 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC I know what you mean Chip,That is why I only have a couple hundred albums listed on the computer using CATraxx, but I actually don't have several of them ripped, and then I have about 400 albums ripped on my computer, and it is too time consuming to type in all the information for each album.&nbsp http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-451826/TopicID-2290759/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-11 05:48:15.697 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Yes, I remember several years ago when I helped you find that James Last song. You posted an unidentified clip of the song Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming and I knew it was James Last; but the problem was that it was part of a medley and listed on the album artwork in German. I actually had to lis http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-450211/TopicID-2290759/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-10 21:01:35.86 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Chip,I believe it was me, but my old AOL PFC that I save when I have to do a reformat, doesn't work with the new version of AOL, so I had to download a PFC Viewer.  It takes a long time to open the PFC, and I can't copy or paste in the emails.  It usually takes about 1/2 hour to load the http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-448897/TopicID-2290759/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-10 11:53:01.383 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Susan,The ultimate irony to this lapse of memory on my part is that someone (in fact, I think it was you!) had sent me an email with questions about these albums a couple of years ago. For anyone else who may be interested in these albums, I'll post below all the LP releases for The Marty Gold http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-448559/TopicID-2290766/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-10 09:25:18.02 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC I remember when I first bought an Apple IIC personal computer in 1984, and I had to call Customer Support, and it was during the Holidays, and their music on hold was Mannheim Steamroller "Deck The Halls".  It seemed to be the only music they would be playing, every time I would cal http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-448528/TopicID-2290759/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-10 09:11:39.297 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Chip,I know the feeling about having too many albums all too well myself.  Though I don't have nearly as many as you, I have so many and have seen them online or in thrift stores or at yard sales or in my actual collection, that when I am out and I see an album, I can't remember if I already http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-447667/TopicID-2290759/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-10 02:39:55.953 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC **I am breaking my own rule for same-day double posting to post this message for those who have already read my previous post on this thread and might not see an edit if I was to edit that post.**In my aforementioned previous post I had a senior moment (at 4:50 am) in completely  forgetting http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-447403/TopicID-2290766/GoToTopic.html YuleLogAndEggNog 2013-06-10 01:37:01.6 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC Hey Warlock!Thanks for posting that weather channel classics link!  All of those songs are great.  There was a song I remember playing on TWC from spring 1991 that I absolutely loved, but I never knew who it was...... until now!  Wow...  I can't believe I am able to listen to it http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-446103/TopicID-2290759/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-09 16:50:29.673 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC That MCA CD release, Christmas Sing-A-Longs, is a compilation of the Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus' two original Kapp Records Christmas LPs: 6 songs are from the group's 1959 LP Here Comes Santa Claus & The Christmas Songs Children Love To Sing; and 6 songs are from the group's 1964 LP Do You Hear http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-0/TopicID-2290766/GoToTopic.html Winter_Warlock 2013-06-09 14:42:11.53 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC This has been a pretty valuable resource for me for a number of years. This is a bunch of music playlists that The Weather Channel has used during its Local Forecast sequences over the years. For anyone who has relied on TWC over the years for weather information, some of the songs are bound to trig http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-0/TopicID-2290759/GoToTopic.html Summit Yule Log Fan 2013-06-09 13:07:31.85 YULE LOG/HOLIDAY MUSIC I just recently purchased a used CD from the Do-Re-Mi Children's Choir entitled Christmas Sing-A-Longs. The reason why I purchased the CD was because I heard some of their Christmas music in the Academy Award winning Woody Allen classic, Annie Hall, from 1977.  Even though Woody's funny witty d http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-0/TopicID-2290662/GoToTopic.html persimmon 2013-06-09 00:01:08.213 NEW & UPCOMING CD RELEASES I was at the Johnny Mathis concert last night.  He flubbed a line of the lyric in Count Your Blessings (Instead Of Sheep) but he never broke stride when he sang, "I don't know the lyrics to this song..." as if it were part of the sog.  He turned to Scott Lavender (keyboard player/conductor http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-432486/TopicID-2289267/GoToTopic.html RayClaus 2013-06-05 21:08:13.117 GENERAL STUFF... TOSS IT HERE! Thanks Susan! Really enjoyed your post! If I saw that episode as a kid, I don't remember it! It was fun to watch! Sad to say that I doubt Hollywood would broadcast such a message on its shows today! I don't eat Shredded Wheat but do Frosted Mini Wheats count! HAA! Thanks again!  http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-432461/TopicID-2289267/GoToTopic.html DooderFuzz 2013-06-05 21:01:13.163 GENERAL STUFF... TOSS IT HERE! Hi Chip!Thoroughly enjoyed thus post of" Rin Tin Tin".Thankyou for this site. Thank you Susan for finding Rin Tin Tin.I still eat "Shredded Wheat. http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-427422/TopicID-2287323/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-04 13:22:44.553 IN THE SPOTLIGHT Glad you are pleased with the album, Susan. http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-426763/TopicID-2287323/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-04 10:19:36.097 IN THE SPOTLIGHT Chip,My Merry Christmas From Joni arrived today, and for it's age, it was in better condition then the vendor described and I listened to it in it's entirety.  It is such a beautiful album.  It's hard to believe she was only 26 when this album was released.Also, being a MONO release, the s http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-424793/TopicID-2289267/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-03 20:36:15.5 GENERAL STUFF... TOSS IT HERE! Thanks Chip,I was thinking of the same artists, but it wasn't quite right.  The Chorale does have a very moving sound though.  I had watched the episode that I posted twice yesterday and got teary-eyed when "Silent Night" was being sung at the end of the episode.I thank you for trying. http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-423627/TopicID-2289267/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-03 12:40:22.22 GENERAL STUFF... TOSS IT HERE! Susan,It sounds a little like Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians or The Robert Shaw Chorale, but it is neither. The song is most likely performed by a studio choir. http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-0/TopicID-2289267/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-03 00:49:34.423 GENERAL STUFF... TOSS IT HERE! Chip,I was going to put this topic under "Christmas Movies" but it isn't a movie, but a 1/2 TV show, so I wasn't sure where to put this.In this episode of "The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin and The Christmas Story"  In the Lt. starts singing "Silent Night" and then the men sing along, but near the http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-419090/TopicID-2287323/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-02 04:16:23.7 IN THE SPOTLIGHT Yes Susan, they are the two movies that Betty Hutton is most famous for: Annie Get Your Gun which is by far her signature movie; and The Greatest Show On Earth which was directed by the great Cecil B. DeMille and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The other two great movie triumphs in her caree http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-418400/TopicID-2287323/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-01 23:18:58.9 IN THE SPOTLIGHT Thanks Chip,As I mentioned, I'm not sure which record label my Hans Christian Anderson album is on because I don't have immediate access to it.  It could be the DECCA release, but I just can't say for sure.  I can sort of picture it in my mind, but can't focus in on the label.I sort of g http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-417617/TopicID-2287323/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-01 17:45:55.71 IN THE SPOTLIGHT Susan,The clip of Stereophonic Sound was in 1994's That's Entertainment! III.As for the 1954 motion picture White Christmas, there was Stereo enhanced version released on VHS (but I wouldn't recommend it): Click here. And regarding Danny Kaye, he was primarily a Decca Records recording artist; howev http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-417607/TopicID-2287951/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-01 17:40:27.2 HOLIDAY MOVIES No problem at all, Susan. I completely understand how someone could be misled by those number designations -- especially with the absence of a Side A and Side B designation on the disc. Also, because most of the time the catalog number designations on Side A were indeed one digit lower that Side B, http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-416803/TopicID-2287323/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-01 12:36:24.16 IN THE SPOTLIGHT Chip,Thanks for giving me the correct movie and singers of "Stereophonic Sound"  I've seen the movie when I was much much younger, and even while going through channels or heard the song one of those programs where they show highlights of different Classic Movies and this particular song was be http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-416634/TopicID-2287951/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-06-01 11:36:49.58 HOLIDAY MOVIES Oh OK,  I had presumed being I have seen other numbers on LP's and 45's where it listed side A and B, and the number in parentheses was 1 number higher on Side B than on Side A.  I will have to go back to Discogs and correct my edit if it has been posted.  I hope this explains where http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-416029/TopicID-2288772/GoToTopic.html Winter_Warlock 2013-06-01 06:43:40.49 GENERAL STUFF... TOSS IT HERE! Thanks!Sweet, and thanks again! http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-415983/TopicID-2288772/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-01 06:22:19.687 GENERAL STUFF... TOSS IT HERE! Welcome to the message board. I think I have a faint recollection of this winter-themed children's album that you are alluding to; but I will have to check my archives which I keep at an off-site location. The next time I'm there I'll do some digging and if I can come up with anything I will certain http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-415981/TopicID-2287951/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-06-01 06:20:14.057 HOLIDAY MOVIES Susan,That number on the 45 means nothing other than a catalog designation for each side of the disc. It does not in any way whatsoever denote Side A or Side B. The A-Side on the 45 is clearly stated on the picture sleeve.I went to that website (Discogs) where you found that image you posted of the http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-0/TopicID-2288772/GoToTopic.html Winter_Warlock 2013-06-01 02:20:43.017 GENERAL STUFF... TOSS IT HERE! (anyone's guess if this belongs in General or in Holiday Music, since I don't know if there were any traditional Christmas songs on this or not)This will come as an odd first post on this forum, since it's not related to YL music in any way. But then we're also about as far from Christmas as we can http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-414947/TopicID-2287951/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-05-31 21:54:24.057 HOLIDAY MOVIES Chip,I must have misunderstood your explanation about David Cassidy being you mentioned that he was allowed to sing in "David Cassidy was only allowed to participate in the studio recordings after he auditioned for record producer Wes Farrell and convinced him that he could sing the lead vocals for http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-413792/TopicID-2287323/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-05-31 13:40:27.197 IN THE SPOTLIGHT That is indeed correct, Susan: Stereoscope is the name for that device which you were alluding to in your post.As for the 1954 motion picture White Christmas, unfortunately only monaural prints of the film still exist today. Sadly, the few stereo prints of the film that were made and released to sel http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-413786/TopicID-2287951/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-05-31 13:35:23.393 HOLIDAY MOVIES Susan,Not sure why the confusion, but as I said in my previous post, David Cassidy sang all of his parts in all of the songs from the Partridge Family. So I'm not sure what you meant when you said, "The person singing Keith's part on the show sounded a lot like David Cassidy." There is no distinctio http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-411713/TopicID-2287323/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-05-31 01:02:19.62 IN THE SPOTLIGHT Thanks Chip,I wasn't aware that "Stereophonic" goes back to the 1920's.  I to remember something that you could look at 2 photographs with this hand held device and it made the 2 images look like they were, for lack of a better description, 3D, but I believe it was referred to as Stereoscope.&n http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-411656/TopicID-2287951/GoToTopic.html Christmas Always 2013-05-31 00:34:40.513 HOLIDAY MOVIES Thanks for the correct information, Chip,I had read years ago that David Cassidy had been singing the lead in all of the songs, and this was from some teen magazine or something.  It was so long ago that I can't say for sure.  The same with Shirley Jones, being she was already known http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-409300/TopicID-2287323/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-05-30 09:09:05.163 IN THE SPOTLIGHT Susan,The word "Stereophonic" actually dates back to 1927, when it was first introduced by Western Electric. However, the phenomenon of Stereophonic sound didn't really gain national prominence until its pervasive use in widescreen motion pictures beginning with the 1952 film, This Is Cinera http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/ReplyID-409284/TopicID-2287951/GoToTopic.html Christmas Music Guru 2013-05-30 09:00:18.13 HOLIDAY MOVIES Susan,Rosemary Clooney recorded the song Snow for her 1954 8-song 10" Christmas LP entitled, Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Since she contractually was not able to participate in the 1954 Decca Records soundtrack LP (Selections From Irving Berlin's White Christmas), Columbia Records had her record