Welcome to Monday, here's a new Christmas In July In August share for you!
1. Out In The Cold Again by Brook Benton-Arranged And Conducted By Sammy Lowe from My Kind Of Blues (RCA Victor LSP-2392, Stereo, 1961). An exciting find just a week or so ago, and a fairly expensive one, too. I grabbed this record, and a couple others just to make enough to put it on my CC. When they rang it up, the total was way more than I expected at a thrift store. Sure enough, they were charging me $3 each for the dollar records. :( I haven't been back, and I may not go back anytime soon, that's just crazy.
2. January In Bombay by Chet Atkins With Harihar Rao from It's A Guitar World (RCA Victor LSP-3728, Stereo, 1967). Certainly not Christmas, but the title seemed like a maybe. And any old excuse to include Chet Atkins. I had no idea he'd ever dabbled with a sitar, and I guess he's just duetting with one here, but it's pretty unexpected.
3. Snow Deer By Billy Gray from Western Swing In Hi-Fi (Decca DL 8730, Mono, 1958). Nice little instrumental.
4. Winter Moon by Carole Danell from Selections From The Haunted House And Other Spooky Poems And Tales 7" 33 RPM (Scholastic Records 7" 33 RPM CC 0688, Mono, 1970). Rare selection here from a 7" record. You remember these old Scholastic records, you used to listen to them in school. Some of them featured a book and maybe a filmstrip to go along with them.
5. Sleigh Ride by The New York Percussion Trio-Murry Solomon, Guest Bass-Ray Wright, Conductor & Arranger from Holidays For Percussion (Vox ST-VX 25.740, Stereo, 1958). I think I shared this song previously from a sampler, but it was mislabeled Sleigh Bells. After hearing it, I had to hunt down the original on Discogs. It was well worth the effort.
6. Another version of Out In The Cold Again, this time by Rusty Warren, Arranged & Conducted By Jack Pleis from Rusty Warren Sings Portrait On Life (Jubilee JGM 5025, Mono, 1964). A rerun, but I wanted to share it again after she passed away this year at the ripe old age of 91. Most of here albums were sex themed comedy, but this was a rare all-singing album. It didn't sell very well, so most people don't know about it.