Here We Come A-Caroling - The Groups Celebrate The Holidays ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED SET

Another fantastic Jasmine records release of rare recordings. This is the 3rd 2CD set I've purchased from Jasmine and they do a nice job selecting artists for each release that feel at home together. Most of the recordings are from the 40's to 60's and have been nicely remastered without that overblown db level that plagues a lot of studio releases. I am looking forward to their annual announcement of September Christmas themed CD releases!

Very fast delivery. Good protection for disk. Product as describe.

Terrific sound quality. Includes the complete much sought after Mills Brothers Christmas album. Many other neat rarities. Highly recommended.

Best of the best Christmas music from the golden groups!

Great CD

Jasmine outdid themselves here with this fantastic 71-track CD set re-formatting some of the rarest Golden Oldies Christmas offerings. The sound quality is just fine, thank you, although diehard audiophiles may find fault here and there. Outlined hereunder are discography details to show you the range of the recordings which run from 1947 to 1971.Disc 1Tracks 1 to 12 - 1959 The Mills Brothers’ LP “Merry Christmas” (Dot 25,232) with orchestra backing by Mort Lindsey; tracks 13 and 14 (full title of track 13 is “The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just To Keep The Things That I've Got)” - 1955 single Epic 5-9133 billed as The DeJohn Sisters with the Ray Ellis Orchestra; tracks 15 to 18 - 1962 LP “Christmas With The Everly Brothers And The Boys Town Choir” (Warner Bros WS-1483); track 19 - The Anita Kerr Singers’ 1971 LP “ A Christmas Story” (Ampex 101425); tracks 20 and 21 1954 single Mercury 70491 billed as The Crew Cuts with David Carroll & His Orch; track 26 - 1950 picture-sleeve single (Capitol F30133) by long-time Gene Autry comic sidekick Smiley Burnette (the flipside was the non-seasonal The Swiss Boy - not here); track 27 - 1949 single Capitol 15330 billed as The Starlighters with the Paul Weston Orchestra - peaked at # 26 in Feb (b/w the non-seasonal More Beer).Tracks 28 to 33 offer rare Ray Bloch & His Orchestra 1947 sides which came out as the hard-cover 78-rpm album set titled “Best Loved Christmas Music” (Signature S-3) which contained these discs: Silent Night, Holy Night - Bobby Doyle with The Ray Bloch Orchestra as Signature 15058 (the flipside was White Christmas by the same pairing - not here); Here We Come A-Caroling/First Noel/Joy To The World b/w Good King Wenceslas/God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen as Signature 15080; Deck The Hall/Away In A Manger/Hark! The Herald Angels Sing as Signature 15081 (the flipside was deck The Falls/Silent Night by Bobby Doyle - not here); Cantique De Noel b/w Adeste Fideles as Signature 15082.Disc 2Tracks 1 to 10 all by The McGuire Sisters (with the backing of the Dick Jacobs Orchestra except where noted) - track 1 was the non-charting 1957 single Coral 9-61911 (b/w the non-seasonal tune Honorable Congratulations - not here); track 2 was combined with track 6 for the 1954 single Coral 9-61303, with The Christmas Alphabet charting at # 25; track 3 recorded at Columbia with the Archie Bleyer Orchestra specifically for the 1953 LP “Christmas With Arthur Godfrey & All The Little Godfreys” (Columbia CL-540); tracks 4 and 5 combined as the non-charting 1955 single Coral 9-61531; tracks 7 and 8 were paired in 1955 with He reaching # 10 in the Oct-Dec stretch as Coral 9-61501; track 9 was cut in 1963 at Reprise with the backing of the Morris Stoloff Orchestra specifically for the LP “Frank Sinatra and His Friends Want You To Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” (Reprise R9-50,001); track 10 formed part of the 1957 LP “Children’s Holiday” (Coral EC-82031).Tracks 11 to 14 all by The Ames Brothers with the backing of the Sid Ramin Orchestra are from their 1957 LP “There’ll Always Be A Christmas” (RCA Victor 1541); tracks 15 and 16 by The Browns, with the backing of the Anita Kerr Singers, combined on a 1960 single, with Blue Christmas, featuring a guitar solo by Chet Atkins, peaking at # 97 Hot 100 as RCA Victor 47-7820; tracks 17 and 18 by Les Baxter & His Orchestra & Chorus combined for the non-charting 1952 single Capitol 2275; track 19 by The Fontane Sisters with Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra (no Perry Como billing on the label although he does participate) came out in 1953 as RCA Victor 20-5524; track 20 by The Four Aces with the Jack Pleis Orchestra came out in 1958 as Decca 30775 (the flipside was The Christmas Tree - not here); track 21 by The Three Suns is from their 1952 E.P. “The Three Suns Raggin' The Scales” (RCA Victor EPA-278); track 22 by The Laurie Sisters was a 1955 single as Mercury 70659 (with the non-seasonal Sugar Blues as the flipside); tracks 23 to 38 are from The Ray Charles Singers’ 1963 album “Christmas At Home” (MGM E-4166).

a classic collection of unforgettable Christmas evergreen by some of the best vocal groups of the fabulous '50s. A very sweet memory: good today as Yesterday. Jasmine confirms to be one the the best vintage labels on the market.

great.

A very interesting assortment of Christmas music. Brings the '50s era into your home. I have only one disappointment. The beautiful 1956 album, "Here We Come A-Caroling" by the Ray Charles Singers, which has some great acapella singing, does not present the songs in the same order as on the original album, after which this CD is named. One song not on the original album is added and my favourite song, 'Rise Up, Shepherds, An' Foller' is conspicuously missing. This CD is for listeners who like vocal harmonies to be the emphasis.

Love the era, love the groupsl

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