Jingle Bells (LP) Year: 1957 Label: Coral Records Catalog Number: CRL 57186 Number of Records: 1

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Please Note: This album was later repackaged and re-sequenced by Pickwick under the title "The Christmas Song".

The following text is from the back cover of the album:

Christmas is many things to many people.

It means holly wreaths, crowded department stores, trimming trees, noisy toy shops, egg nog parties, Christmas Eve mass, Christmas morning worship services, friends and relatives, turkey dinners, used gift wrappings, exhaustion, conviction that "it's lucky it comes only once a year," an assortment of gifts you can't use and have to exchange, the sullen, grey faces of the poor families, prayers - and music.

Music is the part of Christmas that comes closest to being common to all - in every land around the earth the birthday of Christ is celebrated.

No other holiday, in fact, has such a rich musical heritage. And Christmas music has the widest imaginable sources. It stems from the earliest, pre-medieval period in countries throughout Europe as well as from the pens of the more inspired Broadway songwriters of the present day.

Wherever you go at Christmas, you can hear the outpourings of the traditional as well as the modernist. On the main street of your town, loudspeakers that hide behind the storefront decorations tell the musical story. Church chimes peal out the familiar carols and a Salvation Army Santa's record player catches your attention with the songs of Christmas. If you attend a party during the holiday season, it is likely to become, at a moment's notice, a group caroling session.

The songs you sing at your party are likely to be both kinds - the traditionals as well as what you might call the "pop" Christmas songs. This group has its own set of classics like "White Christmas", "Jingle Bells", "Sleigh Ride", "Silver Bells", and "The Christmas Song."

And for your Christmas party, where the interest must inevitably shift to the singing of the good and the favorite songs, what better accompaniment could you seek than a tailor-made selection of twelve, expressed in the sparkling musical voice of Lawrence Welk and his famous TV orchestra?

This new Coral high fidelity recording provides you with that fine program, in instrumental settings that literally call out for the sing-alongers to join in.

Play this favorite group of Lawrence Welk renditions this Christmas and for many a Christmas to come. These are the holiday evergreens that each year come to life again to shine like a newly lighted Christmas tree.

Invite everyone to join as maestro Lawrence Welk leads the Christmas party singing or let the excellent quality high fidelity versions of these songs help you make light of the job of cooking Christmas victuals, wrapping presents or trimming the tree.

Listen now to Lawrence Welk, for a merrier musical Christmas!

Ren Grevatt

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