The best Christmas album you've never heard

[72doug2,2S]

Nick Lowe Quality Street

[Dixie]

Huh I was sure this would be the album.

[herr_oberst]

...is this. If you think you know the KT, you'll be surprised. This is an album of ancient Christmas songs which many people are unaware of, played on traditional and modern stringed instruments, arranged and harmonized beautifully.



Try this song out if you don't believe me.

[RNajarian]

[Ayles]

Highlight is the Elton John cover

[craigster59]

[Seahawk]

Had it for years,

[Steve Carlton]

Over the Rhine has a lot of Christmas/holiday songs. I went to one concert and that's all they played. Generally sad stuff, but stunningly beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ngNDbEVmuA3jgJ_lplVM1PbCHPnU IUPEk


This is dark, but incredible.

[Zeke]

Tough question and I wouldn't post except for an interesting incident this last Summer. I passed a driveway sale and stopped. I noticed 2 milk crates with CD's end to end and double stacked. That would be well over 100.

All Christmas music with maybe 10% of other music. I picked up 2 old jazz albums. Not Xmas jazz.

[flatbutt]

[LWJ]

I have the Elvis Christmas Album. Blue Christmas gets played at high volume most years to the consternation of my wife.

A classic.

[thingmon]

Peanuts?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7dqZ6Jy-GE

[Baz]

Originally Posted by thingmon

Peanuts?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7dqZ6Jy-GE

And....we have a winner!

A Charlie Brown Christmas is the eighth studio album by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (later credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio). The album was released in December 1965 in the U.S. by Fantasy Records and was Guaraldi's final studio album for the label. It is the soundtrack to the Christmas television special of the same name.

Guaraldi was contacted by television producer Lee Mendelson to compose music for a documentary on the comic strip Peanuts and its creator, Charles M. Schulz. Although the special went unaired, these selections were released in 1964 as Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Coca-Cola commissioned a Christmas special based on Peanuts in 1965 and Guaraldi returned to score the special.

Guaraldi composed most of the music, though he included versions of traditional carols such as "O Tannenbaum". He recorded some of the score at Whitney Studio in Glendale, California, then re-recorded some of it at Fantasy Records Studios in San Francisco with a children's choir from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in nearby San Rafael. The sessions ran late into the night, with the children rewarded with ice cream afterward.

Bassist Fred Marshall and drummer Jerry Granelli were credited as performing on the album. It was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Baz

And....we have a winner!

A Charlie Brown Christmas is the eighth studio album by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (later credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio). The album was released in December 1965 in the U.S. by Fantasy Records and was Guaraldi's final studio album for the label. It is the soundtrack to the Christmas television special of the same name.

Guaraldi was contacted by television producer Lee Mendelson to compose music for a documentary on the comic strip Peanuts and its creator, Charles M. Schulz. Although the special went unaired, these selections were released in 1964 as Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Coca-Cola commissioned a Christmas special based on Peanuts in 1965 and Guaraldi returned to score the special.

Guaraldi composed most of the music, though he included versions of traditional carols such as "O Tannenbaum". He recorded some of the score at Whitney Studio in Glendale, California, then re-recorded some of it at Fantasy Records Studios in San Francisco with a children's choir from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in nearby San Rafael. The sessions ran late into the night, with the children rewarded with ice cream afterward.

Bassist Fred Marshall and drummer Jerry Granelli were credited as performing on the album. It was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

Now THAT is a classic!

[Tobra]

Frank, Elvis, but #1 is Vince Guaraldi Trio

[911Ghia]

[WPOZZZ]

Oh man, I can't stand that vibratto or whatever it is in his voice.

[72doug2,2S]

Impressive Seahawk, I love it
More beauties off Quality street

[Ralph3.]

Originally Posted by Baz

And....we have a winner!

A Charlie Brown Christmas is the eighth studio album by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (later credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio). The album was released in December 1965 in the U.S. by Fantasy Records and was Guaraldi's final studio album for the label. It is the soundtrack to the Christmas television special of the same name.

Guaraldi was contacted by television producer Lee Mendelson to compose music for a documentary on the comic strip Peanuts and its creator, Charles M. Schulz. Although the special went unaired, these selections were released in 1964 as Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Coca-Cola commissioned a Christmas special based on Peanuts in 1965 and Guaraldi returned to score the special.

Guaraldi composed most of the music, though he included versions of traditional carols such as "O Tannenbaum". He recorded some of the score at Whitney Studio in Glendale, California, then re-recorded some of it at Fantasy Records Studios in San Francisco with a children's choir from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in nearby San Rafael. The sessions ran late into the night, with the children rewarded with ice cream afterward.

Bassist Fred Marshall and drummer Jerry Granelli were credited as performing on the album. It was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

My favorite, a classic.

[HobieMarty]

https://youtu.be/iLrKZOzc_sA?si=_fowlg5s2_TdSIx6

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