Latest Updates - Leroy Anderson

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Comment by jimbo2021:

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B2

IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR

Leroy Anderson
And His Orchestra


2:27

Traditional
19th Century

Music by
Richard Storrs
Willis

Arranged by
Leroy Anderson

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DECCA ®

Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Marca Registrada •
Mfr'd by Decca Records, Inc.,
New York, U.S.A.

A
CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
With
LEROY ANDERSON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA

Decca Records
DL 8925
MG 7189⬥

Side 2

SUITE OF CAROLS FOR
STRING ORCHESTRA
(Arranged By Leroy Anderson)

2. It came upon the midnight
clear

Long Play 33⅓ RPM

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DL 8925
Long Play 33⅓ RPM

A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
with LEROY ANDERSON
and his Orchestra

LEROY ANDERSON is an outstanding personality in many different roles---composer, conductor, teacher, performer, and arranger. He is also a paradox: a creator of serious music who has written one hit tune after another. "Blue Tango," which sold over a million records, "Sleigh Ride," "Syncopated Clock," and "Belle of the Ball" all became instrumental standards as well as dances; his serious music, such as the "Irish Suite" and the "Scottish Suite," is almost as popular. A gifted organist, Anderson also plays the piano and---to show the range of his talents---the double bass.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1908, Leroy Anderson was graduated from the Music Department of Harvard University, where he was music director and arranger for the Harvard Band. After teaching at Radcliffe, he entered the U. S. Army as a private in 1942, served with the American Forces in Iceland, and was discharged as a captain four years later.
Previous albums have shown Anderson's great variety. These recordings extend his range. They include some of the most cherished Christmas music ever composed. Their arrangement is out of the ordinary. Originally Christmas carols were meant not only to be sung but danced to, and Leroy Anderson has kept his treatments appropriately bright and fresh in spirit as well as in tempo. Altogether this is an unusual collection brilliantly interpreted.

Side 2

Suite of Carols for
String Orchestra

2. It came upon the midnight clear

a New World of Sound

DECCA
Records

This is a High-Fidelity Record!
For proper reproduction use RIAA or
similar Record Compensator setting.

Printed in U.S.A.

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Hi Fi
Decca
Records

A CHRISTMAS
FESTIVAL

with
LEROY
ANDERSON

DL 8925

Printed in U.S.A.

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Recorded in New York City on
Wednesday, September 21, 1955

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Comment by jimbo2021:

Maybe someone has this album from 1959 and can scan the back cover. The back cover is full of liner notes and too much to write at this time, so I have combined liner notes from this album here (but not nearly all of them), with different liner notes from the 1955 Decca DL 8193 record, which I cannot find at this site. Decca DL 8193 is a very fond memory for me. It was my favorite Christmas record my mother owned when I was a youngster in the 1960s and the early 1970s. I affectionally referred to it as the "Kitty Cat Record" back then, because of the adorable front cover of the pretty and fluffy white cat in the wrapped but open, slightly shredded, red, white and green gift box with a partial look of a gorgeous, decorated Christmas tree behind him/her, all with a pretty light blue background. Probably my favorite album cover ever.

That album cover can be found here Leroy Anderson And His Orchestra as one of the three Extended Play 45s from the 1955 "Kitty Cat Record" full album.

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Comment by jimbo2021:

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B12

PATAPAN

Leroy Anderson
And His Orchestra


1:16

Traditional
French Christmas
Carol

Arranged by
Leroy Anderson

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DECCA ®

Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Marca Registrada •
Mfr'd by Decca Records, Inc.,
New York, U.S.A.

A
CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
With
LEROY ANDERSON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA

Decca Records
DL 8925
MG 7189⬥

Side 2

SUITE OF CAROLS FOR
WOODWIND ENSEMBLE
(Arranged By Leroy Anderson)

12. Patapan

Long Play 33⅓ RPM

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DL 8925
Long Play 33⅓ RPM

A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
with LEROY ANDERSON
and his Orchestra

LEROY ANDERSON is an outstanding personality in many different roles---composer, conductor, teacher, performer, and arranger. He is also a paradox: a creator of serious music who has written one hit tune after another. "Blue Tango," which sold over a million records, "Sleigh Ride," "Syncopated Clock," and "Belle of the Ball" all became instrumental standards as well as dances; his serious music, such as the "Irish Suite" and the "Scottish Suite," is almost as popular. A gifted organist, Anderson also plays the piano and---to show the range of his talents---the double bass.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1908, Leroy Anderson was graduated from the Music Department of Harvard University, where he was music director and arranger for the Harvard Band. After teaching at Radcliffe, he entered the U. S. Army as a private in 1942, served with the American Forces in Iceland, and was discharged as a captain four years later.
Previous albums have shown Anderson's great variety. These recordings extend his range. They include some of the most cherished Christmas music ever composed. Their arrangement is out of the ordinary. Originally Christmas carols were meant not only to be sung but danced to, and Leroy Anderson has kept his treatments appropriately bright and fresh in spirit as well as in tempo. Altogether this is an unusual collection brilliantly interpreted.

Side 2

Suite of Carols for
Woodwind Ensemble

12. Patapan

a New World of Sound

DECCA
Records

This is a High-Fidelity Record!
For proper reproduction use RIAA or
similar Record Compensator setting.

Printed in U.S.A.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hi Fi
Decca
Records

A CHRISTMAS
FESTIVAL

with
LEROY
ANDERSON

DL 8925

Printed in U.S.A.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Recorded in New York City on
Tuesday, September 27, 1955