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Santa swings ... the windup : 27 Christmas stockings full of shellac dust / various artists.

Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: BCD17714 | Bear Family RecordsSeries: Bear Family seasons seriesPublisher: Holste, Germany : Bear Family Records, [2023]Copyright date: ℗2023Description: 1 audio disc (1 hr., 17 min., 50 sec.) ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
What will Santa say (when he finds everybody swingin') / Louis Prima Orchestra (3:13) -- Blow blow thou winter winds / Bob Crosby's Bob Cats (2:17) -- Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! / The Ramblers (2:32) -- I hope Gabriel likes my music / Louis Armstrong Orchestra (3:19) -- And the angels sing / Count Basie Orchestra (3:03) -- Peace, sister, peace / Monette Moore (2:39) -- Jingle bells / Glenn Miller Orchestra (3:39) -- Ring dem bells / Charlie Barnet Orchestra (2:34) -- Christmas night in Harlem / Paul Whiteman Orchestra (3:24) -- Santa's secret / Johnny Guarnieri, with Slam Stewart (2:49) -- There's frost on the moon / Chick Webb Orchestra (2:51) -- Snow ball / Louis Armstrong Orchestra (3:18) -- Santa Claus came in the spring / Putney Dandridge Orchestra (2:51) -- And the angels sing / Jan Savitt Orchestra (3:13) -- I told Santa to bring me you / Jimmy Ray Orchestra (2:42) -- I hope Gabriel likes my music / Stew Pletcher Orchestra (3:18) -- Freeze and melt / Joe Turner and his Memphis Men (2:52) -- Winter weather / Bob Chester Orchestra (2:53) -- Sugar plum / Teddy Wilson Orchestra (2:59) -- Santa Claus is comin' to town / Alvino Rey Orchestra (2:34) -- Little Jack Frost gets lost / Ray McKinley Orchestra (2:48) -- Bounce of the sugar plum fairy / John Kirby Orchestra (2:23) -- (You're just) as cute as Christmas / Vincent Lopez Orchestra (3:09) -- Robins and roses / Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys (2:57) -- Jingle (bingle) bells / Ella Logan (2:54) -- Auld lang syne / Don Redman Orchestra (2:32) -- Bells of auld lang syne / Joel Cowan and Thornel Swartz (2:07).
Production credits:
  • Compilation by Sven T. Uhmann.
Various performers.Summary: "Shellac instead of stardust: when Santa Claus takes off his boots and unpacks the gramophone after his work is done: Bear Family Records® delves deep into the shellac box! No intrusive bells, chumming ho-ho's or strangely distorted reindeer voices: Every year around the same time the displays of the department stores are bending with hastily and often suspiciously similar compiled 'swing' samplers, since 'swing is coming back'. Our journey through the depths of various shellac racks, however, brought to light quite a number of undiscovered treasures. Thus, we could stand up for the true 'Spirit of Swing'. Thrilling music of the '30s and '40s, highly danceable, elegant but cool, performed by expert jazz musicians, at the time pressed onto a mélange of shellac, slate flour, soot and cotton flakes, to be played with a steel needle (or optionally cactus spikes for lower volume) at an unbelievable 78 RPM and .... extremely fragile"-- Publisher's website.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult CD Adult CD Northport Library CD HOLIDAY Santa Swings...the Windup Available 33111010009005
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

No jingling bells, no ho-ho's or weird reindeer voices. Instead, swinging jazz at its best, rousing swing of the '30s and '40s, highly danceable, elegant but cool, performed by seasoned jazz musicians.

Various performers.

Compilation by Sven T. Uhmann.

Recorded 1929-1958.

Contains material previously released ℗1929-1980.

Liner notes by Roland Heinrich Rumtreiber (18 pages : illustrations, some color) printed on container insert.

"Shellac instead of stardust: when Santa Claus takes off his boots and unpacks the gramophone after his work is done: Bear Family Records® delves deep into the shellac box! No intrusive bells, chumming ho-ho's or strangely distorted reindeer voices: Every year around the same time the displays of the department stores are bending with hastily and often suspiciously similar compiled 'swing' samplers, since 'swing is coming back'. Our journey through the depths of various shellac racks, however, brought to light quite a number of undiscovered treasures. Thus, we could stand up for the true 'Spirit of Swing'. Thrilling music of the '30s and '40s, highly danceable, elegant but cool, performed by expert jazz musicians, at the time pressed onto a mélange of shellac, slate flour, soot and cotton flakes, to be played with a steel needle (or optionally cactus spikes for lower volume) at an unbelievable 78 RPM and .... extremely fragile"-- Publisher's website.

What will Santa say (when he finds everybody swingin') / Louis Prima Orchestra (3:13) -- Blow blow thou winter winds / Bob Crosby's Bob Cats (2:17) -- Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! / The Ramblers (2:32) -- I hope Gabriel likes my music / Louis Armstrong Orchestra (3:19) -- And the angels sing / Count Basie Orchestra (3:03) -- Peace, sister, peace / Monette Moore (2:39) -- Jingle bells / Glenn Miller Orchestra (3:39) -- Ring dem bells / Charlie Barnet Orchestra (2:34) -- Christmas night in Harlem / Paul Whiteman Orchestra (3:24) -- Santa's secret / Johnny Guarnieri, with Slam Stewart (2:49) -- There's frost on the moon / Chick Webb Orchestra (2:51) -- Snow ball / Louis Armstrong Orchestra (3:18) -- Santa Claus came in the spring / Putney Dandridge Orchestra (2:51) -- And the angels sing / Jan Savitt Orchestra (3:13) -- I told Santa to bring me you / Jimmy Ray Orchestra (2:42) -- I hope Gabriel likes my music / Stew Pletcher Orchestra (3:18) -- Freeze and melt / Joe Turner and his Memphis Men (2:52) -- Winter weather / Bob Chester Orchestra (2:53) -- Sugar plum / Teddy Wilson Orchestra (2:59) -- Santa Claus is comin' to town / Alvino Rey Orchestra (2:34) -- Little Jack Frost gets lost / Ray McKinley Orchestra (2:48) -- Bounce of the sugar plum fairy / John Kirby Orchestra (2:23) -- (You're just) as cute as Christmas / Vincent Lopez Orchestra (3:09) -- Robins and roses / Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys (2:57) -- Jingle (bingle) bells / Ella Logan (2:54) -- Auld lang syne / Don Redman Orchestra (2:32) -- Bells of auld lang syne / Joel Cowan and Thornel Swartz (2:07).

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