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Traditional Christmas Music

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra & Chorus

Produced by Henri René

 

Recorded at Manhattan Center, New York City

Recording Time 3:32

 

Recorded May 26, 1953   ~  Matrix No. E3VB-1355 Take 1 - 1A

 

Single release: RCA-78/45RPM-20/47-6321-B ( E3VW-1355 ) ( Christmas 1955 )

Single Flip Side: "( There's No Place Like ) Home for the Holidays"

 

RCA Gold Standard Series  78/45-RPM-420/447-0812

Single Flip Side: "( There's No Place Like ) Home for the Holidays"

 

 

 

 

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

Album issue: RCA-45RPM DOUBLE EP "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music" EPB-1243 MONO 1956

Album: RCA-AUSTRALIA EP "Joy to the World" RCA MONO ( ?? ) 1957

Album issue: RCA-45RPM EP  "Merry Christmas" SP-45-35 MONO 1958

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

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

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra & Chorus

Produced by Henri René

Recorded at Manhattan Center, New York City

Recorded May 26, 1953

A Perry Como Discography 

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