78 RPM - Perry Como - Merry Christmas Music - RCA Victor

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Artist:	Perry Como
Label:	RCA Victor
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	P-161
Date:	1947
Format:	Album
Title:	Merry Christmas Music
Genre:	Vocal, Pop, Christmas
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
1A	Perry Como	That Christmas Feeling	Benny Benjamin, George Weiss	Rate
1B	Perry Como	Winter Wonderland	Dick Smith, Felix Bernard	Rate
2A	Perry Como	I'll Be Home For Christmas	Kent, Gannon, Ram	Rate
2B	Perry Como	Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town	Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots	Rate
3A	Perry Como	Silent Night	Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr	Rate
3B	Perry Como	White Christmas	Irving Berlin	Rate
4A	Perry Como	O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)	Latin Hymn	Rate
4B	Perry Como	Jingle Bells	Traditional	Rate

Notes

1947 reissue of the original album P-161 (1946) with "White Christmas" instead of "O Little Town of Bethlehem."

A four record album comprising discs 20-1968, 20-1969, 20-1970 and 20-1971

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han enderman 29th Aug 2024		Vic Album P-161 - a copy of the 1st edition of the album is at present on ebay. 2 labels are shown (not Bethlehem) and these do not show the album number. That is, however, on the image of the album spine.



han enderman 29th Aug 2024		The Perry Como website says: "Surprisingly, it's not generally known that the original recordings for Perry's first Christmas album date back to 1946 when it was released as a 4 record 78-rpm disc Musical Smart Set. All of these songs were recorded in August, 1946, but one song, "O Little Town of Bethlehem", was later dropped from the set and replaced by "White Christmas" recorded in 1947. In 1956, the revised collection was combined with another collection, "Around the Christmas Tree", recorded in 1953, under the original 1946 album title, to form Perry's first full RCA Victor 12" LP Christmas album." Thus there are 2 versions of the 78 rpm album, of which the first was released in 1946, as could be expected from the cat. numbers. "Bethlehem" is on youtube, with a good label image (can be copied?). It omits the album nr on the label, but this occurs more often at the time, as I have an image of 20-2081 without album nr, but present in P-169 (Freddy Martin). In discogs is the 1946 Canadian release, a copy of the orig. US record.



Mike Gann 29th Aug 2024		This is the release date from DAHR for the album which is incorrect because it shows that "White Christmas" was recorded on July 10, 1947. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/objects/detail/437956/Victor_20-1970



leonard 29th Aug 2024		According to the official Perry Como website all songs except for White Christmas were recorded in August 1946. White Christmas is a 1947 recording. Therefore the release date given here for this album can’t be right. Also the track listing here is for A-D indicating 4 sides, it should be from A-F (8 sides) [Corrected. mod]

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