Airing every year since its 1965 release, the special has been honored with both an Emmy and a Peabody Award. If you’ve got a heart, A Charlie Brown Christmas is a holiday must-see. Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) Released as an LP in 1955, Merry Christmas contains Crosby’s signature song, “White Christmas”.Ģ. Originally released through Decca Records in 1945 as ten songs across five 78 records, Merry Christmas has been in print longer than any other album besides the 1943 release of Oklahoma! Selling over 15 million copies, Bing Crosby’s Merry Christmas deserves to be in your collection if it’s not already. We at The Vinyl District don’t care to find out, and have taken it upon ourselves to compile a list of 5 Christmas albums (across 6 decades) that are worth picking up and adding to your collection.Įlvis’ Christmas Album ( pictured above) almost made this list, but the number one selling Christmas album of all time hardly needs our mention. How many versions of “Jingle Bells” can one person take? Walking into a thrift store, resale shop or garage sale only to find stack after stack of obscure Christmas records. It’s every crate-digger’s worst nightmare. And with thousands of holiday albums recorded and released over the last several decades, it would seem that musicians sure know how to capitalize on it. Whether you want to attribute it to nostalgia, tradition, or something else, people love their Christmas music. No matter how hard poor Flag Day may try, it just can’t compete with centuries of classic carols and dozens of new songs being written every year. Christmas has always been the holiday with the most extensive songbook.
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