I am leaning toward the old 1950s Christmas records. Like my old Carmen Dragon Capitol Records Christmas.
And this one!
This 1956 album is not like Carmen Dragon. Carmen Dragon was pretty adventurous. These arrangements by an outfit called the National Concert Orchestra are pretty straightforward. It is not like Carmen Dragon's "O Tannenbaum" that sounds like something out of the 1939 "Wuthering Heights."
However this album has a nobility about it as great Christmas albums do. There is nothing wrong with not reinventing the wheel. Just play the song.
OK, wait, "The First Noel" kind of goes off the tracks. They are messing with the harmonization. However they got back on track.
It is so soothing!
Speaking of which, a lot of people in the comments love the old Christmas cards on the record jacket cover. They miss those old-fashioned Christmas cards.
You know what, just start sending them again.
Let's turn back the clock!
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