{"id":14039,"date":"2014-12-03T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T21:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14039"},"modified":"2016-12-08T06:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:59:19","slug":"christmas-album-review-silent-night-and-13-other-best-loved-christmas-songs-by-lawrence-welk-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/christmas-album-review-silent-night-and-13-other-best-loved-christmas-songs-by-lawrence-welk-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Album Review: <i>Silent Night and 13 Other Best Loved Christmas Songs<\/i> by Lawrence Welk (1961)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000L7GOGG\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000L7GOGG&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/lawrencewelk.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000L7GOGG\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000L7GOGG&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">This album<\/a> is less of a big band sound than a modified bell and chimes choir sound.  There are no singers vocalizing the words from the carols, but there are some choral voices singing notes to accompany the orchestra.  And, as I said, bells and chimes (and harpsichord) are featured, but they&#8217;re backed with a depth of other instruments.  So it falls somewhere in between a bells and chimes album and an instrumental bell album.<\/p>\n<p>The track list includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silent Night<\/li>\n<li>Hark the Herald Angels Sing<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll Be Home for Christmas<\/li>\n<li>White Christmas<\/li>\n<li>Deck the Halls<\/li>\n<li>God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen<\/li>\n<li>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/li>\n<li>The First Noel<\/li>\n<li>Adeste Fidelis<\/li>\n<li>It Came Upon A Midnight Clear<\/li>\n<li>O Little Town of Bethlehem<\/li>\n<li>Joy to the World<\/li>\n<li>Good King Wenceslas<\/li>\n<li>Thanks for Christmas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\tI bought this album this year, so I don&#8217;t have a large sample size of its presence in the rotation, but it&#8217;s pleasant enough to have as background music while cooking or otherwise doing things in rooms adjacent to our parlor, where we have the record player and its records.  But it&#8217;s not mood music, where you want to be in the same room while the record plays.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B000L7GOGG&#038;asins=B000L7GOGG&#038;linkId=JMV7KKXZ4NJZTFM4&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This album is less of a big band sound than a modified bell and chimes choir sound. There are no singers vocalizing the words from the carols, but there are some choral voices singing notes to accompany the orchestra. 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