( The ) Twelve Days of Christmas

Traditional Christmas Music

Public Domain

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra & Chorus

Produced by Henri René

Recorded at Manhattan Center, New York City

Recording Time 3:59

Recorded May 26, 1953 ~ Matrix No. E3VB-1353 Take 1 - 1A

Single release: RCA-78RPM "Perry for Kids" Y-487 & EYA-40

Single release: RCA Little Nipper "Blue" Junior Series WBY-43 45-RPM Blue Vinyl

Single Flip Side: "'Twas The Night Before Christmas"

UK Single release: HMV-78RPM-B-10776 ( December 1954 )

Single Flip Side: "Frosty the Snowman"

Original issue: "Around the Christmas Tree" LPM-3133 and "Around the Christmas Tree" 45-EPA-496 MONO 1953

Album reissue: RCA-LP12 "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music" LPM-1243 MONO 1956

Re-issue: Camden-LP12 "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music" CAL-660 MONO 1961

Re-issue: Camden-LP12 "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music" CAS (e)-660 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1964

Re-issue: Pickwick-LP12 "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music" CDS-1045 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1972

Album issue: Pickwick-LP12 "The Christmas Collection" PDA-027 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1979

Re-issue: Camden-LP12 "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music" CAS (e)-660 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1987

Around the Christmas Tree ~ LPM 3133 circa 1953

Merry Christrmas Music ~ 1961 Camden alternate cover

Merry Christmas Music ~ 1964 Camden Reissue

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Note: a number of Perry's original RCA Camden albums were later issued in Electronically Reprocessed Stereo during the mid-1960s when it became important for recordings to be available in a stereo format. Generally speaking, results were not very good but this was largely dependent on the remastering engineer. Oddly, a number of recordings previously recorded in real stereo were also remastered in this "fake" stereo for reasons assumed to be associated with the project budget but, nevertheless, in direct contradiction to RCA General Manager George R. Marek's original mission statement for RCA Camden recordings in 1958.