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Artist:Various Artists
Title:Merry Christmas: Bill Haley & Friends Vol. 1
Label:  Hydra
Country:Germany
Date:1998
Catalogue:BCK 27109
Barcode:4016030000268
Format:CD Album
Genre:Country, Rock & Roll
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Community: 1 Owns
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
01Bill Haley And The CometsRockin' Around The Christmas TreeMarksRate
02Bill Haley And The CometsJingle Bell RockBeal, BootheRate
03Bill Haley's CometsBlue ChristmasHayes, JohnsonRate
04Bill Haley's CometsRing A ChimeTrad.Rate
05Joey WelzSanta Claus Is Coming To TownTrad.Rate
06Joey WelzWinter WonderlandBernard, SmithRate
07Ian FennRockin' Rollin' ChristmasFennRate
08Bill Haley And The SaddlemenI Don't Want To Be Alone For ChristmasMenaker, D'onofrio, RussellRate
09Bill Haley And The SaddlemenA Year Ago This ChristmasHaleyRate
10Jack HowardChristmas Message [spoken word]HowardRate
11Dick ThomasChristmas In The CountryTaylor, SnyderRate
12Dick ThomasChristmas In The Country [demo]Taylor, SnyderRate
13Rusty WellingtonAll I Want For Christmas (Is A Pretty Little Girl With Eyes Of Blue)A. Keefer, R. KeeferRate
14Rusty WellingtonChristmas Would Come Twice A YearMalle, Eichler, ScottolineRate
15Rusty WellingtonDear SantaA. Keefer, R. KeeferRate
16Rex ZarioHere Comes Santa ClausAutry, Haldeman, MelkaRate
17Jimmy CollettI Remember ChristmasSmithRate
18Jimmy CollettI Don't Want To Be Alone For ChristmasMenaker, D'onofrio, RussellRate


Notes

06 is misidentified as "Sleigh Ride" on the back cover and insert.

Comments and Reviews
 
23skidoo
13th Jun 2022
 This set launched a long running occasional series by Hydra that featured performers with connections (sometimes remote) to Bill Haley. This Christmas-themed collection thus features recordings by Haley mixed in with two new perfomances by his Original 1954-55 Comets recorded in Europe, two tracks by Joey Welz (who played piano for a time in 1965 and later worked with some post-Haley versions of the Comets), Jack Howard (Haley's manager for a time and owner of the Arcade label for which members of the Comets recorded solo work and worked as session musicians before, during and after their time with Haley), Rex Zario (who became custodian of Howard's archive after Howard died, including many unreleased Haley tracks), Ian Fenn (a singer with no known Haley connection but his track has a strong Haley sound), and a few others who had connections with Arcade or Haley's pre-Comets group, the Saddlemen. The two Haley and Saddlemen recordings date from 1951 and this was their first release on CD; at the time only a very scatchy copy of the 78 could be located of this rare record, so the sound quality is poor; some years later, Bear Family obtained a much better-condition copy for a box set; the first two Haley tracks date from a 1968 recording session for United Artists but had only come to light a few years before this release.
 

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