Christmas With Arthur Godfrey and All The Little Godfreys
One of the most wonderful things about listening to the very earliest attempts at Christmas albums is to see a genre take form. Take radio personality Arthur Godfrey.
Andre Kostelanetz – Wonderland of Christmas
Creating Christmas music will almost universally mean an artist has to go outside their comfort zone.
Sammy Kaye – Christmas Serenade
What’s the first Christmas album? Well, of course, this would have been before the vinyl record was invented in the late 1940s.
Mahalia Jackson – Silent Night: Songs for Christmas
Sometimes, it’s not about the notes someone sings, about their purity and quality and intrinsic meaningfulness. Sometimes, it’s about the pauses.
Doris Day – The Doris Day Christmas Album
Pianist Oscar Levant once famously quipped that he “knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
A Music Box Christmas: Enchanting 19th-Century Music Boxes from the Collection of Rita Ford
The fantastic thing about recording technology is that it allows us to travel in time.
Peter Jöback – Jag Kommer Hem Igen Till Jul
One of the most wonderful things about Christmas music is how it can turn expectations on end.
Ray Conniff – We Wish You A Merry Christmas
One of the strikingly unusual things about the music industry in the early sixties was how studio orchestra arrangers could become stars in their own right.
Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé – That Holiday Feeling!
In 1964, showbiz darlings, married couple Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé were at the top of their game.