A REALLY EXCELLENT - NEAR MINT COPY OF THIS LOVELY DOUBLE-SIDER CHRISTMAS 78 FROM BUBBER JOHNSON ON THE UK PARLOPHONE LABEL

"It's Christmas Time" (1955)

► 2:59► 2:59 Signed to Cincinnati's King label, actor, singer and writer, Bubber Johnson had one significant R&B Xmas hit before fading into the ether. “It's Christmas Time” is a real find: a plush Mathis-styled Yuletide ballad, complete with background chorus, harp, flute, and French horns…the whole gluey fruitcake cut three years before Mathis himself began making Christmas recordings.

B/W  LET'S MAKE EVERYDAY A CHRISTMAS DAY

Bubber Johnson led a varied career that included recording for Mercury with , and appearing in the 1952 film . In 1955 he showed up at the New York offices of King Records to pitch some songs he had written to legendary A&R man .

Glover was so impressed with his piano playing and vocal delivery that he signed him as an artist on the spot. His confidence in Johnson's abilities soon paid off, as only his second single for the label, the self-penned , would crack the R&B top ten that November. This sweet little Christmas 78 was no doubt cut while Bubber was still riding the charts, and King obviously pulled out all the stops...

"Hang some stockings by the fireplace, cut a fruitcake aged with wine..."

I'm not too sure about the fruitcake but, hey, you get the idea - Merry Christmas, Everybody!

ABOUT THIS RECORD:- 

UK PARLOPHONE R 4105 10" 78RPM 

CONDITION - EX+/M-

 

A RARE CHRISTMAS 78 ON THE UK PARLOPHONE LABEL

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