Dear People,
I want to just send this along again, only because I have finally capped the collection. My pursuit of xmas albums is done...other than the Boris Karloff 1966-edition of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
https://picasaweb.google.com/110429368341669114147/ChristmasVinyl#The tally is nearly 280 albums and I recon they constitute 5% of the Christmas albums I flipped past. When you "crate dig" at every Goodwill you pass, you see a million Robert Goulet Xmas albums--or its equivalent. Anyway, I hope this slideshow, which I think is hilarious, helps make the case for the genre's legitimacy. You get every slice of pop music during the golden age of album productions. I want to give a particular shout-out to the Capitol of the World Series from Capitol Records. In 1957, they published eight beautiful albums from various countries of origin, including Sweden, England, Holland, Spain, Italy, France, Mexico and Germany and then the following year, in 1958, they published editions from Cuba, Australia, Brazil, Portugal, Poland and Austria. The cover art is very often beautiful and every single album is a heavenly choir with folk instruments. Others followed in the coming years from Norway, Ireland, China, The Philippines, Greece and additional albums from France, Mexico, England, Sweden, Austria and Germany.
I want to thank those for the suggestions last time. If anyone has any more, please let me know...like a bus in Africa, there's always room for one more.
Anyway, best wishes everyone. I'll try to add a few more comments later.
Regards,
Colin