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We Wish You a Merry Christmas is a 1962 album by Ray Conniff. The album was one of two platinum albums over the course of Conniff’s career and earned him the title of CBS Records Best Selling Artist for 1962.
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The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album is the seventh studio album by the Beach Boys, released in November 1964. ii contains five original songs and seven standards on a Christmas theme. The album proved to be a long-running success during subsequent Christmas seasons, initially reaching number six in the US Billboard 200 chart in its year of release and eventually going gold. Music historian James Perone wrote that it is “regarded as one of the finest holiday albums of the rock era”.
While leader Brian Wilson produced and arranged the rock songs, he left it to Dick Reynolds (an arranger for the Four Freshmen, a group Wilson idolized) to arrange the forty-one piece orchestral backings on the traditional songs to which the Beach Boys would apply their vocals. One single was released from the album, the original song “The Man with All the Toys” backed with the group’s rendition of “Blue Christmas”. “Little Saint Nick”, a single which had already been released the previous year, was included on the album.
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— Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life —
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B. J. THOMAS
“Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart and Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. December 1969
THE ARCHIES
“Jingle Jangle” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart and Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. December 1969
PETER, PAUL & MARY
“Leaving On A Jet Plane” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart and Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. December 1969
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A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 studio album by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (later credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio). The album was released in December 1965 in the U.S. by Fantasy. It is the soundtrack to the Christmas television special of the same name.
Guaraldi composed most of the music, though he included versions of traditional carols such as “O Tannenbaum”. He recorded some of the score at Whitney Studio in Glendale, California, then re-recorded some of it at Fantasy Records Studios in San Francisco with a children’s choir from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in nearby San Rafael. The sessions ran late into the night, with the children rewarded with ice cream afterwards.
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Someday at Christmas is a Christmas album by Stevie Wonder, released on November 27, 1967 by Motown Records under its Tamla imprint. It was his eighth studio album release. The title song was previously released as a single in 1966 and reached #24 on the Billboard Christmas singles chart that year.
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SIXTEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” by Steam peaked this month at No. 01 (2 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100. Week ending November 30 through December 12, 1969. (Source: Billboard)
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MCRFB Link: For the previous No. 1 record in the U.S.A. 1969 GO HERE.
