Harry Simeone Chorale - Little Drummer Boy Christmas Festival (1959) Vinyl LP

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Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; scuffing and surface impressions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is generic white. Spine is mostly readable with mild-wear. Minor shelf-wear along top-edge, heavier across bottom-edge and corners. Developing split on center of bottom, top-edge partially unglued. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. Yellow label, Stereo Pressing. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Band 1
2. Sing We Now Of Christmas
3. Angels We Have Heard On High
4. Away In A Manger
5. What Child Is This?
6. Joy To The World
7. Band 2
8. Go Tell It On The Mountain
9. Band 3
10. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
11. Good King Wenceslas
12. We Three Kings
13. Villancico
14. Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
15. Band 4
16. Bring A Torch, Isabella
17. Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming
18. Band 5
19. Deck The Halls
20. Christian Men Rejoice
21. Master's In The Hall
22. O' Tannenbaum
23. Band 1
24. O' Holy Night
25. Band 2
26. The Little Drummer Boy
27. Band 3
28. Coventry Carol
29. Rise Up Shepherds
30. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
31. O' Little Town Of Bethlehem
32. O' Come Little Children
33. Band 4
34. Ding Dong
35. While Shepherds Watched Their Flock By Night
36. The First Noel
37. The Friendly Beasts
38. Band 5
39. Silent Night
40. Adeste Fideles
41. A Christmas Greeting

About The Record:

When the Twentieth-Century Fox Records contracted Harry Simeone to make a Christmas album in 1958, he assembled a group he called "The Harry Simeone Chorale" and searched for recording material. After being introduced to an obscure song by producer and credited song co-author Henry Onorati, titled Carol of the Drum (originally composed by Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941 and arranged to present form by Jack Halloran), Simeone changed the title to The Little Drummer Boy and recorded it under that title for his album Sing We Now of Christmas. He received joint authorship-and-composition credit for the album, although he did not actually write or compose the song. The single The Little Drummer Boy quickly became extremely popular and scored on the U.S. music charts from 1958 to 1962.