{"id":16037,"date":"2016-12-07T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T19:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16037"},"modified":"2016-12-07T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T19:48:34","slug":"christmas-album-review-a-christmas-sing-with-bing-by-bing-crosby-and-the-norman-luboff-orchestra-1958-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/christmas-album-review-a-christmas-sing-with-bing-by-bing-crosby-and-the-norman-luboff-orchestra-1958-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Album Review: <i>A Christmas Sing with Bing<\/i> by Bing Crosby and the Norman Luboff Orchestra (1958, 1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0023U3BHY\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0023U3BHY&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/achristmassingwithbing.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a>It&#8217;s not really the Christmas season when it comes to record albums, ainna?  It&#8217;s <em>Bing Crosby<\/em> season.  So let&#8217;s get this year&#8217;s Christmas album reviews off to a proper start, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0023U3BHY\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0023U3BHY&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">this album<\/a>.  It was recorded in 1955 and released as a record in 1956.  It&#8217;s from a radio broadcast that Bing did on Christmas Eve, so it&#8217;s chock full of not only songs that he performs, but also bits recorded by others.  Like many albums I&#8217;m planning to review this year, it features the spoken word&#8211;in this case, Bing&#8217;s introductions to the songs and the cutaways.<\/p>\n<p>The album dates from 1956? 1958?  But the pressing I got dates from 1973 or so.  Reissued 25 years later.  So you know there was a market for it.  Whether there still is, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>The track list includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Happy Holiday \t<\/li>\n<li>Joy To The World \t<\/li>\n<li>Hark The Herald Angels Sing \t<\/li>\n<li>White Christmas \t<\/li>\n<li>Adeste Fideles (Oh, Come All Ye Faithful) \t<\/li>\n<li>We Three Kings Of Orient Are \t<\/li>\n<li>The First Noel \t<\/li>\n<li>Carol Of The Bells \t<\/li>\n<li>What Christmas Means To Me <\/li>\n<li>Good King Wenseslas \t<\/li>\n<li>Jesus, Sweet Savior (Jesus Sauveur Adorable) \t<\/li>\n<li>Angels We Have Heard On High (Gloria In Excelsis) \t<\/li>\n<li>Away In A Manger \t<\/li>\n<li>Thou Decendeth From The Stars (Tucendi De La Stelli) \t<\/li>\n<li>Deck The Halls \t<\/li>\n<li>God Rest Ye Merrie Gentlemen \t<\/li>\n<li>Oh, Little Town Of Bethlehem \t<\/li>\n<li>Silent Night \t<\/li>\n<li>Happy Holiday (Finale)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pretty stock stuff, but with some different bits in there (&#8220;Thou Descendeth from the Stars&#8221;, &#8220;What Christmas Means To Me&#8221;, &#8220;Jesus, Sweet Savior&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting part, of course, is the recreation of an old time radio broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>I like it a bunch, and I&#8217;ve got it on steady rotation this year so far.\t<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Album mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/><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=B0023U3BHY&#038;asins=B0023U3BHY&#038;linkId=ab470d48a4ba38078b1fcca416674d82&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not really the Christmas season when it comes to record albums, ainna? It&#8217;s Bing Crosby season. So let&#8217;s get this year&#8217;s Christmas album reviews off to a proper start, with this album. It was recorded in 1955 and released as a record in 1956. It&#8217;s from a radio broadcast that Bing did on Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-albums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16038,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037\/revisions\/16038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}