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RCA CAMDEN CAL-660 (
M3PP-2424/25 )
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MONAURAL LONG PLAY
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ASSEMBLED IN 1961
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RCA CAMDEN
CAS-660(e) ( PCRS-5309/10 )
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STEREO LONG PLAY
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ELECTRONICALLY
REPROCESSED
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REISSUED IN 1964,
1987
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- Side One
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recordings
circa 1953
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'Twas The
Night Before Christmas
- Poem by Clement Clarke Moore with
original music by Ray Charles
- With String Ensemble
directed by Mitchell Ayres
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- ( The )
Twelve Days of Christmas
- Traditional Christmas Music
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra & Chorus
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- God
Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Traditional Christmas Music
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra & Chorus
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- C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
- Music by Eddy Arnold and lyrics by Jenny Lou Carson, 1949
- With Mitchell Ayres
and His Orchestra
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- Joy
To The World
- Words and Music by Isaac Watts and George F. Handel
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra & Chorus
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- Rudolph
the Red Nosed Reindeer
- Words and Music by Johnny Marks , 1949
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra & Chorus
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- Frosty
the Snowman
- Words and Music by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins, 1950
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra & Chorus
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- ( The )
Christmas Song ( Merry Christmas To You )
- Music by Mel Tormé and lyrics by Robert Wells, 1946
- With Mitchell Ayres
and His Orchestra
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- Side Two
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recordings
circa 1946 / 47
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That
Christmas Feelin'
- ~ from the Musical Smart Set "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas
Music"
- Words and Music by Bennie Benjamin and
George Weiss
- With Russ Case and His
Orchestra
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- I'll
Be Home For Christmas
- ~ from the Musical Smart Set "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas
Music"
- Words and Music by Walter Kent, Kim Gannon and
Buck Ram
- With Russ Case, his
Orchestra and Chorus
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- Silent
Night
- ~ from the Musical Smart Set "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas
Music"
- Words and Music by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber
- With Organ and Choir
conducted by Russ Case
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- O
Come All Ye Faithful ( Adeste Fideles )
- ~ from the Musical Smart Set "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas
Music"
- Latin Hymn translated
by Frederick Oakeley
- With Organ and Choir
conducted by Russ Case
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- Jingle
Bells
- ~ from the Musical Smart Set "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas
Music"
- Words and Music by J.S. Pierpoint
- With Russ Case, his
Orchestra and Chorus
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- White
Christmas ~ added in 1947
- Words and Music by Irving
Berlin,
1942
- With Mixed Chorus and
Lloyd Shaffer's Orchestra
- Recorded July 10, 1947, New York
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- Santa
Claus Is Comin' To Town ~
dropped
in 1961
- Words and Music by Haven Gillespie and
J. Fred Coots , 1934
- ~ from the Musical Smart Set "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas
Music"
- With Russ Case and his
Orchestra and The Satisfiers
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- Winter
Wonderland
- Words and Music by Felix Bernard and Dick Smith
- ~ from the Musical Smart Set "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas
Music"
- With Russ Case and His
Orchestra and The Satisfiers
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- O
Little Town of Bethlehem
~
dropped in 1947
- Words and Music by Phillips Brooks and
Lewis H. Redner
- ~ from the Musical Smart Set "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas
Music"
- With Organ and Choir
conducted by Russ Case
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| 1953 Sessions | 1946 Sessions | Album Notes |
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Side One
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with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and Chorus and String
Ensemble
- Produced by Henri René
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Original
Release 1953 in 10" LP format RCA Victor album
"Around the Christmas Tree" RCA Victor LPM-3133
Released simultaneously as two
45 RPM Extended Play Albums EPA-496, titled
"Around
the Christmas Tree," and EPA-497, titled
"Christmas Joy" in 1953.
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Side Two
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~ with Russ Case and His
Orchestra, Organ and Mixed Choir, recorded August 1, 6, 20 and 22, 1946.
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This set was released in
several formats under the title "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music.
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The original compilation
included "O Little Town
of Bethlehem" , recorded during the 1946 sessions,
which was substituted in the
1951 compilation, RCA Victor LPM-3023, with Irving Berlin’s "White
Christmas,"
recorded with Lloyd Shaffer
and His Orchestra.
In 1961, the RCA Victor
album was re-released as RCA Camden CAL-660 excluding the 1946 version
of
"Santa Claus Is Comin' To
Town ( with the Satisfiers ) " With the release of the RCA Camden
version,
two of the original 1946
tracks were now withdrawn from commercial release.
Note: the RCA Camden release
was later issued in Electronically Reprocessed Stereo during the
mid-1960s
when it became important for
recordings to be available in a stereo format. Generally speaking,
results were
not very good but this was
largely dependent on the remastering engineer. Oddly, a number of
recordings
previously recorded in real
stereo were also remastered in this "fake" stereo for reasons assumed to
be
associated with the project
budget but, nevertheless, in direct contradiction to G. R. Marek's
original
mission statement for
RCA Camden recordings in 1958.
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