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| Christmas Sing-Along with Mitch Columbia Records CL1205 – 1958 (monoaural) CS8027 – 1959 (stereo) |
This week we continue our reflection into Billboard’s Best Selling Christmas albums focusing on the decade of the 1960s. Mitch Miller’s “Christmas Sing-Along With Mitch” continued its reign at the top position (having been #1 in both 1958 and 1959) in 1960.
Song Listing:
Joy to the World
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
What Child Is This
We Three Kings of Orient Are
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Silent Night
Holy Night
Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
O Come All Ye Faithful
The First Noel
The Coventry Carol
Away In a Manger
O Little Town of Bethlehem
1961 Mitch Miller’s “Holiday Sing Along With Mitch”
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| Holiday Sing-Along |
Song Listing:
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Frosty the Snowman
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Sleigh Ride
Must Be Santa
The Christmas Song
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Winter Wonderland
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Silver Bells
Jingle Bells
White Christmas
1962 – Johnny Mathis “Merry Christmas”
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| Johnny Mathis Merry Christmas Columbia 1958 CL1195 (monoaural) CS8021 (stereo) |
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| Merry Christmas Johnny Mathis Columbia Records. 1959 Reissued with new cover artwork. CS8021 (stereo) |
Song Listing:
Winter Wonderland
The Christmas Song
Sleigh Ride
Blue Christmas
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
White Christmas
O Holy Night
What Child Is This
The First Noel
Silver Bells
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Silent Night
1963 and 1964 – Andy Williams “The Andy Williams Christmas Album”
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| Andy Williams The Andy Williams Christmas Album Columbia 1963 CL2087 (monoaural) CS8887 (stereo) |
Song Listing:
White Christmas
Happy Holiday
The Holiday Season
The Christmas Song
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
A Song and a Christmas Tree
Kay Thompson’s Jingle Bells
The First Noel
O Holy Night
Away in a Manger
Sweet Little Jesus Boy
The Little Drummer Boy
Silent Night
1965 – Harry Simeone Chorale “The Little Drummer Boy: A Christmas Festival”
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| Harry Simeone Chorale The Little Drummer Boy: A Christmas Festival 20th Century Fox. 1963 TFM3100 (monoaural) TFS3100 (stereo) |
Song Listing:
Medley: Sing We Now of Christmas, Angels We Have Heard on High, Away In A Manger, What Child Is This, Joy to the World
Go Tell It On The Mountain
Medley: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, Good King Wenceslas, We Three Kings, Villancico, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Medley: Bring A Torch Isabella, Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
Medley: Deck The Halls, Christian Men Rejoice, Master’s In the Hall, O Tannenbaum
O Holy Night
The Little Drummer Boy
Medley: Coventry Carol, Rise Up Shepherds, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, O Little Town of Bethlehem, O Come Little Children
Medley: Ding Dong, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night, The First Noel, The Friendly Beasts
Medley: Silent Night, Adeste Fideles, A Christmas Greeting
1966 – Andy Williams “Merry Christmas”
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| Andy Williams Merry Christmas Columbia 1965 CL2420 (monoaural) CS9220 (stereo |
Song Listing:
Winter Wonderland
Little Altar Boy
Silver Bells
The Bells of St. Marys
Mary’s Little Boy Child
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
My Favorite Things
Sleigh Ride
Some Children See Him
Christmas Holiday
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
1967 – Barbra Streisand “A Christmas Album”
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| Barbra Streisand A Christmas Album Columbia 1967 CL2757 (monoaural) CS9557 (stereo) |
Song Listing:
Jingle Bells
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
The Christmas Song
White Christmas
My Favorite Things
The Best Gift
Sleep In Heavenly Peace
Gounod’s Ave Maria
O Little Town of Bethlehem
I Wonder as I Wander
The Lord’s Prayer
1968 – Glen Campbell “That Christmas Feeling”
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| Glen Campbell That Christmas Feeling Capitol 1968 ST2978 |
Song Listing:
Christmas Is for Children
Old Toy Trains
Little Altar Boy
It Must Be Getting Close to Christmas
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Blue Christmas
The Christmas Song
Pretty Paper
There’s No Place Like Home
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Christmas Day
1969 – Jim Nabors “Jim Nabors Christmas Album”
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| Jim Nabors Christmas Album Columbia 1967 CL2731 (monoaural) CS9531 (stereo) |
Song Listing:
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Do You Hear What I Hear
Three Wise Men Wise Men Three
O Holy Night
In a Humble Place
O Come All Ye Faithful
Jingle Bells
White Christmas
Christmas Eve in my Home Town
Sleigh Ride
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Silent Night
Next week, we will finish our look back at Billboard’s Best Selling Christmas Albums with a review of the decade of the 1970s.
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