Sold Date: November 22, 2021
Start Date: November 15, 2021
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Large Lot Of 10 Vintage Christmas Vinyl Records.

In this lot you'll receive:

Elvis' Christmas Album

Christmas With Colonel Sanders

101 Strings - The Glory of Christmas

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' Christmas Album

A Music Box Christmas

Goodyear Presents...Great Songs of Christmas, Vol. 10

Magnavox: Album of Christmas Music

Christmas Music From Meredith College

Jesse Crawford - Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

Reader's Digest Joyous Noel Record 3

All records are used and vintage. All records have recently undergone a basic cleaning and all have been recently played. By and large everything in this lot is in good shape and plays well, but all of them are used and some are close to 70 years old at this point; they have been well loved but most seem to have been well taken care of. There are some scratches here and there but nothing that has ever 'ruined' a listening session. I've listened to all of them in the last month or so and I don't remember any specific issues with any of them. All come with their insert papers.

There is a nice mix of vintage flavor in this lot; with Jesse Crawford, the 101 Strings, and A Music Box Christmas you get instrumental version s of a lot of Christmas classics. The 101 Strings doing sweeping orchestral versions and Jesse doing his Nashville Church Music spin on all the 'modern' classics. A Music Box Christmas is actually a collection of live recordings of real antique mechanical music boxes from the 1800s recorded in the 1950's (I think).

Christmas With Colonel Sanders is a collection of Christmas standards curated by Colonel Sanders to play and sell in KFC restaurants in the 60's.  There's a nice mix of artists including Harry Belafonte, Mancini, Chet Atkins, Charley Pride, etc.

Reader's Digest Joyous Noel Record 3 is a lost duckling from a five or six disc collection released by the RD publishing house in the late 60s/early 70s. This collection of songs features different songs from many of the same artists as the Col. Sanders album but to me it has a more 'fun' vibe than the Colonel's selections.

Christmas Music from Meredith is a recording of a live performance from the Meredith College Choire and Orchestra and is still in it's original plastic wrap. I grew up near Meredith and got this from an estate sale back in the day. I have not been able to confirm it's recording date but my best guess in about 1960/1961.  It's a fun little time capsule of what the culture at a place like Meredith might have been back then. They're having good, clean fun but they put an interesting spin on a couple songs that might have seemed genuinely transgressive to the alumni and locals that would have been the primary audience for this record in the early 60s.

The Magnavox collection features all the names in big band music from the 60s, each taking a spin on a Christmas standard. It is also still in it's original plastic wrap.

Good Year Presents...is a fun record. The Goodyear tire company released a Christmas album every year  for many years and they were given as gifts to workers and sold in dealerships and mechanic shops country-wide. All of the great singers are here including Babs, Mahalia, Petula, and even Doris Day. This is volume 10 which I believe came out in 1969 or 1970 as it would have been the tenth anniversary record of the Goodyear Presents...series. I couldn't find much more info but this seems to be one of the more rare volumes but I don't know if that's because less people bought them back in the day or if less have made their way to the second hand market. This album is also in it's original plastic wrap.

The Herb Alpert album is great, can't say much more than that. If you like Herb than you probably already know the deal. In good shape, still in the original plastic wrap.

Elvis' Christmas Album, same deal, it's great. It's an early collection so it doesn't have his later Gospel ballads but it has Blue Christmas and his other rock-'n'-roll yuletide favorites. Still in the original plastic wrap but the plastic has a couple of years here and there.

Please feel free to ask any questions!