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Close Enough For New Year's
I don't have a whole lot of New Year's music to share with you, so this one will have to be close enough to count. Give it a listen and see if you think it's worth the trouble. This is The G-Clefs with...
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I Know What I'm Doing
The year is drawing to an end, but I've still got music to share with you. Here's a special New Year's share with you, something I'm sure you'll appreciate. This is Sonny Til-Arranged And Conducted By...
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2022 At 78 RPM-New Year's Special
The year is about to draw to a close and so is this long series of 78s from The Internet Archive. But before we reach the end, I've got a special collection of songs that might be appropriate for New...
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2022 At 78 RPM-Part 53-Part 1
Well, we're almost to the end here. You just got a special post of New Year's songs, now you get a giant post of Christmas songs, the first of two I have for you today. I've done this every week for...
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2022 At 78 RPM-Part 53-Part 2
And here we are, end of the line for this series. It's been a long time since we started it on the first of January this year. Appropriate that it ends on the last day of December. We squeezed in 53...
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Let Heaven And Earth Proclaim
Sure is early to be up on New Year's Day. But I've got more Christmas music to share with your before the season ends on Epiphany, AKA Little Christmas. I believe the tradition is that it's the day...
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A Stranger At Christmas
Happy New Year! It may be a week after Christmas, but I'm still going around here, though not quite as quickly as I was before Christmas. I'm trying to keep it going until Epiphany, so keep checking...
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Debbie (Not Gibson)
Have I mentioned that our annual family Christmas get-together got postponed to today? There was a lot going on with Christmas being on a Sunday, and we normally do breakfast, so they pushed it to...
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Have A Hoot!
Now that your New Year's Eve hangover is gone, I can share this loud, raucous Christmas song. Have a go at Gene & Jerry With Hootenanny Christmas (Roulette 7" 45 RPM R-4537 Radio Station Copy Not...
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A Christmas Beatles Tangent
Here I am, drawing this season out as long as possible. Today's share is by Elaine And Derek And The Rita Williams Singers, and the record features It's Christmas b/w The Christmas Story (Veejay 7" 45...
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More Doye
We've seen Doye O'Dell a couple of times (here, here and here. OK, three times...) from 78 here at the blog, but I think this is his first appearance on vinyl, and from later on in his career. Here he...
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More CanCon
We're having an after-Christmas blow-out sale around here, everything must go! Give a listen to Francine Raynor-Christmas Is The Time b/w This Is The Time For Christmas (Jagger (Canada) 7" 45 RPM...
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Silver Leaf (Not Sweet)
Just a single side for you here, I hope that's OK. Download it now, save it for next year, it'll still be good, I promise. This is Dick Wilson with Merry Christmas To You Dear Holy-One (Silver Leaf 7"...
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Count To Twelve
How much Christmas music do I have left to share? It's starting to scare even me, but I promise it's not too much more. Just a few singles between now and the end. Just delete some old college pictures...
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Almost Lost One
I was poking around in my music library on the computer and ran across something I'd recorded that didn't seem to exist in an MP3 form, only the original WAV. Turned out it was something I recorded and...
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Funny?
Here's a rare spoken word comedy Christmas single, though I use the word comedy loosely. Maybe it was funny in a night club all those years ago, but I dunno if this passes muster these day. But I'll...
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It just occurred to me that I should have hyped up my Second-Best Of collection from Christmas in July at some point during the season. Too late now for it to get any traction, but I'll mention it...
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Merry Very
Just a single side this time, you've got room left for that, right? This is Glenn Weston with A Very Merry Christmas (Columbia (England) 7" 45 RPM DB 8627, Mono, 1969).MEGA
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Just a note to mention that I've been going in and updating a lot of the old 78 posts (from both 2020 at Christmas and 2022 all year long) to include the track listing. I only recently figured out how...
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Browne Is The Colour
Just a little touch of the islands on this one, which is almost always the case with Mary's Boy Child. This time the artist is Ivan Browne and the flipside is Jingle Bell Ride (Edmar 7" 45 RPM 45-1069,...
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