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with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and Chorus and String
Ensemble
Produced by Henri René
Original
Release 1953 in 10" LP format RCA Victor album
"Around the Christmas Tree" RCA Victor LPM-3133
Released simultaneously as two
45 RPM Extended Play Albums EPA-496, titled
"Around
the Christmas Tree," and EPA-497, titled
"Christmas Joy" in 1953.
Side
Two
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with Russ Case and His Orchestra, Organ and Mixed Choir,
recorded August 1, 6, 20 and 22, 1946.
This
set was released in several formats under the title
"Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music. "
The
original compilation included "O
Little Town of Bethlehem" , recorded
during the 1946 sessions,
which was substituted in the
1951 compilation, RCA Victor LPM-3023, with Irving
Berlin’s "White Christmas,"
recorded with
Lloyd Shaffer and His Orchestra.
In 1961, the RCA Victor album was re-released as RCA
Camden CAL-660 excluding the 1946 version of
"Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town ( with the
Satisfiers ) " With the release of the RCA
Camden version,
two of the original 1946 tracks
were now withdrawn from commercial release.
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