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- Perry Como
- Around The Christmas Tree
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- With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra & Chorus
- and
String
Ensemble
- Produced by Henri René
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RCA VICTOR 45 EPA
496
( E3PW-1482/3 )
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MONAURAL
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ASSEMBLED 1953
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- Side One
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'Twas The
Night Before Christmas
- Poem by Clement Clarke Moore with
original music by Ray Charles
- With String Ensemble
directed by Mitchell Ayres
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- The
Twelve Days of Christmas
- Traditional Christmas Music
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra & Chorus
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- Side Two
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God
Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Traditional Christmas Music
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra & Chorus
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- C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
- Music by Eddy Arnold and lyrics by Jenny Lou Carson, 1949
- With Mitchell Ayres
and His Orchestra
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- Perry's 1953 album "All Around
the Christmas Tree" was released simultaneously within two
- companion
45 RPM Extended Play albums each with four songs. One had the same title
and the
- other was titled "Christmas Joy" with both of them
released as a cut-out Christmas ornament which
- could be hung on the tree.
In 1956 all of these songs were combined with "Merry Christmas
Music"
- to form the larger version 12" LP format having a total
of sixteen songs. This album was later
- re-released in 1961 within the
budget RCA Camden Series. The Camden release deleted
- "Santa
Claus Is Comin' To Town" lowering the song count to fifteen. With
this deletion, there were
- now two songs missing from the original
"Merry Christmas Music" Musical Smart Set, the other being
- "O Little Town of Bethlehem" which had been dropped in 1947 in
favour of "White Christmas".
- The compact disc release in 1987
was an exact replication of the 1961 RCA Camden album.
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- All
tracks in this compilation were monaural.
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Label View |
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- With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra & Chorus
- and
String
Ensemble
- Produced by Henri René
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RCA VICTOR 45 EPA
496
( E3PW-1482/3 )
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MONAURAL
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ASSEMBLED 1953
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| Late 70s
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Discography
- & Digital Companion
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Edition Summer 1992
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Edition Christmas 1993
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