The 25th Day of December is a Christmas album by American singer Bobby Darin, released in 1960. The heralded “Christmas Auld Lang Syne“, written by Manny Kurtz (d. 1984; wrote over 250 songs) and co-written by Francis Philip Military, made its debut on this album, and with backing of Darin’s vocals is the Bobby Scott Chorale. The track also was released on the Atco label as a single (6183) and released for the Christmas Holidays, debuting on Billboard, October 31, 1960.
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THE CHRISTMAS SONG NAT KING COLE (COMPLETE LP) * 1963
—THE CHRISTMAS SONG NAT KING COLE—
The Magic of Christmas is a 1960 album by Nat King Cole, arranged and conducted by Ralph Carmichael. This was Cole’s only complete album of Christmas songs, although he had recorded several holiday singles earlier in his career. One of these, “The Christmas Song”, originally recorded in 1946, was re-recorded for the 1961 album The Nat King Cole Story. In 1963 The Magic of Christmas was reissued under the title The Christmas Song, with that recording added to the track list in place of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”, and with new cover art. It is the best-selling Christmas album released in the 1960s, and was certified by the RIAA for shipments of 6 million copies in the U.S. The 1963 version reached number 1 on Billboard’s Christmas Albums chart and remained for two weeks.
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NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA* DECEMBER 21-DECEMBER 27, 1969
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TOP FIVE: WEEK-ENDING December 27, 1969
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— NUMBER ONE FOR 1969 —
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FIFTEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “Someday We’ll Be Together” by the Supremes peaked this month at No. 01 (1 week) on the Billboard Hot 100. Week ending December 20 through December 27, 1969. (Source: Billboard)
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—SEASONS’ GREETINGS 1965 FROM THE VOICES of KEENER 13—
Phillip Nye * George Hunter * Dick Buller * Ed Mullen * Eric Smith * John Maher * Dick Purtan * Ted Clark * Jerry Goodwin * Bob Green * Scott Regen * J. Michael Wilson * Jim Jeffries * Paul Cannon
From all the Keener Key Men . . . Merry Christmas!
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THE ANDY WILLIAMS CHRISTMAS ALBUM (COMPLETE LP) * 1963
—THE ANDY WILLIAMS CHRISTMAS ALBUM—
The Andy Williams Christmas Album is the first Christmas holiday album released by singer Andy Williams and his twelfth studio album overall. It was issued by Columbia Records in 1963, and it would prove to be the first of eight Christmas albums released by Williams. Though it was also the album that introduced Williams’ perennial holiday classic “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”, Columbia instead opted to release Williams’ cover of “White Christmas” as the album’s promotional single at the time. From 1963 to 1973, Billboard published special weekly Christmas Albums and Christmas Singles sales charts. For all five weeks that these special charts were published in 1963 (for the weeks ending November 30, 1963 through December 28, 1963), The Andy Williams Christmas Album was the number one selling Christmas album, while Williams’ cover of “White Christmas” was the number one selling Christmas single. The Andy Williams Christmas Album spent three weeks as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1964, and one week as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1965.
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“The Christmas Song” (commonly subtitled “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” or, as it was originally subtitled, “Merry Christmas to You“) is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé. The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song in June 1946. At Cole’s behest – and over the objections of his label, Capitol Records – a second recording was made in August utilizing a small string section, this version becoming a massive hit on both the pop and R&B charts. Cole again recorded the song in 1953, using the same arrangement with a full orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle, and once more in 1961, in a stereophonic version with another full orchestra arranged and conducted by Ralph Carmichael. Cole’s 1961 version is generally regarded as definitive. Fourth recording: Recorded at Capitol Studios, New York City, March 30, 1961. This rendition, the first recorded in stereo, is widely played on radio stations during the Christmas season, and has become the most popular/familiar version of this song. Label credit: Nat King Cole (Nat King Cole, vocals; Ralph Carmichael, orchestra conductor).The instrumental arrangement is nearly identical to the 1953 version, but Cole’s vocals are deeper-sounding and more focused. Originally done for The Nat King Cole Story (a 1961 LP devoted to stereo re-recordings of Cole’s earlier hits), this recording was later included in a reissue of Cole’s 1960 holiday album The Magic of Christmas replacing “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”. Retitled The Christmas Song, the album was issued in 1963 as Capitol W-1967 (mono) / SW-1967 (stereo) and today is in print on compact disc.
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For three consecutive years in the 1970s, ‘The First Christmas‘ aired on 98.7 WBFG-FM in Detroit during the holiday seasons, 1975, 1976 and 1977. At the time ‘The First Christmas’ first aired, WBFG was Detroit’s only premiere station known for it’s all-religious broadcasting format. The call letters WBFG was also the station’s heralded acronym as well. The calls represented their out-going religious radio content heard daily 24/7 on the FM side, “We’re Broadcasting For God.” This special holiday recording, “The First Christmas,” was conceived, created, produced and narrated by Bob Pratt.
A Prophecy Fulfilled
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”Isaiah 9:6
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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.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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“Children’s Christmas Song” was written by Isabelle Freeman, co-written by Harvey Fuqua and was released on Motown Records in November 1965. Two originals, taken from the ‘Supremes Merry Christmas” album,”Children’s Christmas Song” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Me”, were issued as the sides of a late 1965 Supremes holiday single. The former was thought to feature background vocals by Berry Gordy’s children — Joy, Berry and Terry — the inspiration for Motown’s publishing division JoBeTe — as well as Diana’s youngest brother, Chico. Background by the Andantes.
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