From 1961 thru 1969, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company with Columbia Records and Stanley Arnold and Associates produced nine unique collections of Christmas music which they sold in their retail stores during the holiday season. In 1970, they concluded the “Great Songs of Christmas” series with a “Best of” compilation of the most popular selections from the previous nine collections. Among them you will find many of the special recordings done exclusively for Goodyear’s Great Songs of Christmas albums in previous years including Barbra Streisand’s “Silent Night”, Isaac Stern’s “Ave Maria”, and Petula Clark’s “Happiest Christmas”.
Goodyear would continue the Christmas album tradition for seven more years after concluding the “Great Songs of Christmas” series. The additional release titles are listed below. At a later date, we will re-visit the Goodyear series in our blog providing more information on each of these releases, but will be moving on to other unforgettable Christmas music and artists beginning with our next blog post. We hope you have enjoyed the information we have provided thus far on the Goodyear “Great Songs of Christmas” series and that you will continue to frequent our blog for more interesting and enjoyable information about your favorite Christmas music.
Additional Goodyear Christmas Albums
Joyous Songs of Christmas. 1971
Christmas Is 1972
Many Moods of Christmas 1973
Carols and Candlelight 1974
Henry Mancini Selects Great Songs of Christmas 1975
Mancini Moods at Christmastime 1976
Great Songs of Christmas with Perry Como and Eugene Ormandy 1977
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