Bing Crosby - 12 Songs of Christmas (1964) Vinyl LP • Frank Sinatra, Fred Waring

Catalog Number: F-2022

Record Grading: Very Good (VG), Sleeve Grading: Very Good (VG)

Condition Details:

Vinyl plays with crackles and some clicks (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; light-scuffing, discoloration with darker discoloration spots, and surface impressions (front/back). Original inner-sleeve is included, record is housed in new sleeve. Spine is somewhat readable with harsh-wear. Heavy shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners, top edge almost entirely split, bottom taped almost the entire way. Opening shows signs of use and divots. Mono pressing. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• White Christmas (Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians )
• It's Christmas Time Again (with Fred Waring )
• Go Tell It On The Mountain (Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring )
• An Old-Fashioned Christmas (Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring )
• When Angels Sang Of Peace (Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians )
• The Little Drummer Boy (Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring )
• I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring )
• Do You Hear What I Hear (Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians )
• The Secret Of Christmas (with Fred Waring )
• The Twelve Days Of Christmas (Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians )
• Christmas Candles (with Fred Waring )
• We Wish You The Merriest (with Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring )

About The Record:

The 12 Songs of Christmas were chosen for this album with understandably great care. Irving Berlin's now traditional White Christmas introduces the album through the massed voices of the Pennsylvanians. Even more modern Christmas songs fill the album, for this recording places great (and due) emphasis upon the newer Christmas songs. Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen, for example, are represented by two Christmas melodies: The Secret of Christmas and An Old-Fashioned Christmas. Band leader Les Brown, who annually leadshis own caroling group in Hollywood, wrote the closing track of the album, We Wish You the Merriest. Roy Ringwald's arrangement of Longfellow's poem I Heard Bells on Christmas Day serves as Frank Sinatra and the Pennsylvanians as an opening track for the same side of the album.