The Christmas Songs [Vintage Jazz]

Original Release Date:  August 31, 2004

Track Listing

• 1. I'll Be Home For Christmas
• 2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen [#1]
• 3. The Christmas Song [#1]
• 4. I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)
• 5. I'm Making Believe
• 6. A Slip of the Lip Can Sink a Ship
• 7. What a Diff'rence a Day Made
• 8. Beautiful Savior
• 9. God Is Ever Beside Me
• 10. Silent Night [#1]
• 11. Broadcast Closing Announcement and Prayer/End Theme: Blue of the Night
• 12. Medley: Happy Holiday/Come to Holiday Inn
• 13. Let's Start the New Year Right
• 14. God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen
• 15. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
• 16. I'll Be Home for Christmas
• 17. Adeste Fideles [#2]
• 18. Patter: Crosby and Orson Wells
• 19. White Christmas [#1]
• 20. Closing Announcement by Orson Wells
• 21. Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)
• 22. Adestes Fideles [#3]
• 23. The Christmas Song
• 24. Jingle Bells
• 25. Brief Christmas Greetings from the Pholks at Philco
• 26. White Christmas [#2]
• 27. Silent Night [#2]
• 28. Joy to the World
• 29. The First Noel
• 30. Good King Wenceslas
• 31. Away in a Manger
• 32. Deck the Halls
• 33. O Little Town of Bethlehem

Credits

• Orson Welles: Voices
• The Charioteers: Vocals, Vocals (Background)
• Irving Berlin: Composer
• Bing Crosby: Composer, Vocals
• Spike Jones: Drums
• Billy May: Trumpet
• Mel Tormé: Composer
• Red Nichols: Trumpet
• Billy Williams: Vocals
• Skitch Henderson: Vocals, ?
• Buck Ram: Composer
• Franz Gruber: Composer
• Fred E. Ahlert: Composer
• Victor Arno: Violin
• Perry Botkin: Guitar
• Ken Carpenter: ?
• John Cyr: Drums
• Walter Edelstein: Violin
• Kim Gannon: Composer
• Charles Green: Trumpet
• Allan Harshman: Viola
• King Jackson: Trombone
• Walter Kent: Composer
• Larry F. Kiner: Producer, Engineer, Source Material
• Kraft Choral Club: Vocals (Background), Choir, Chorus
• Harry Lawson: Sax (Tenor)
• Alfred Lustgarten: Violin
• Jack Mayhew: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Loulie Jean Norman: Vocals
• Charles Parlato: Vocals
• Roy Turk: Composer
• U.S. Navy Waves Chorus: Vocals (Background)
• Isaac Watts: Composer
• Robert Wells: Composer
• Ira Williams: Vocals
• Jud Conlon: Vocals
• Charles Griffard: Trumpet
• Gerald Joyce: Violin
• Nick Pisani: Violin
• Lowell Mason: Composer
• Peter Ellis: Violin
• Fred Goerner: Cello, Vocals
• Howard Halbert: Violin
• Charles Henderson: Vocals, Choir, Chorus
• Eddie Jackson: Vocals
• Arthur Kafton: Cello
• Charlie LaVere: Piano
• Mac McLean: Vocals
• Andy Secrest: Trumpet
• Jimmy Sherman: Piano
• Elmer Smithers: Trombone
• Eugenie Baird: Vocals
• John Scott Trotter: Director, Vocals, Group
• Collin Kellogg: Art Direction
• Joe Kretcher: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Fred Whiting: Bass
• Lyle Bowen: Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
• Morton Friedman: Sax (Tenor)
• Arthur Shapiro: Bass
• Gus Mayhew: Trombone
• Frederick Oakeley: Composer
• Greg Theakston: Illustrations
• John Francis Wade: Composer
• Gloria Wood: Vocals
• Joseph Mohr: Composer
• Phillip Brooks: Composer
• William Sandys: Composer
• Billy Williams & Choir: Vocals
• John Mason Neale: Composer
• Nicholas Dan: Violin, Sax (Alto)
• Howard Doug Daniel: Vocals
• Eddie Ehlert: Trumpet
• Mort Freedman: Sax (Tenor)
• Sam Fried: Violin
• Bob Kimic: Trumpet
• Larry Kurkdjie: Violin
• Leonard Maltin: Still Pictures
• Meyer Oberman: Violin
• Uan Racey: Trumpet
• Van Simon: Viola
• Max Sovolewski: Violin
• Katherine Thompson: Harp
• The Rhythmaires: Vocals, Group
• Pete Bielman: Trombone
• Henry Hill: Violin
• George Moore: Sax (Alto)
• Lewis Redner: Composer
• James Pierpont: Composer
• Dick Clark: Sax (Tenor)