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is one but that s going to take some time 15 peoples gas club chorus director george haase accompanists helen nettinga ferris healey winter wonderland this is why i have to check nearly every plain white record sleeve i come across you never know what you might find inside sometimes it takes forever to look through the smallest pile of records but it s all worth it when you find a treasure like this 16 elinor gene hoffman picture books in winter i think this is the first only spoken word record of the day short and sweet 17 the yale theater orchestra james sinclair conductor holiday quickstep i find a lot of christmas tracks from various groups at yale possibly more so than any other college out there not sure why i just think they like their holiday music 18 texas lutheran college choir paul engelstad director carol of the drum a very early version of this track an alternate title for the little drummer boy i don t think this one preceded harry simeone s claiming of the authorship of the song though those are hard to find but they exist 19 angel serrano huerfano sin navidad the only spanish language track of the day i apologize for the way it sounds sort of like it s coming and going the record was pressed off center and this was the best i could get off of the vinyl i remember having to build a stack of records on the platter so that this one sat high enough to be able to move it without the spindle holding it in place i nudged it around until it spun a little truer but clearly not as true as it should have been also i used part of the lp cover for this record on my cij best of in 2024 20 tom paxton prayin for snow tom paxton was the author of the marvelous toy a christmas adjacent song that has been covered by a lot of folks out there it was nice to find another song from him that i could use here 21 max roach in the red a xmas carol more of that jazz stuff i warned you about this time with an actual christmas title and it s really really long like you d expect from some of the jazz records of this period 22 cincinnati children s choir karen wolff director o chanukah the only chanukah track from this collection and one of the few i had this season sometimes you ve got to take what you can get 23 leo arnaud and his orchestra holiday for strings i know it s not really a christmas song but i couldn t resist the lp cover was just great and the song itself is such a great version the very definition of space age pop music 24 phineas newborn jr with dennis farnon and his orchestra moonlight in vermont some more piano music for you from a hard to find lp on the great rca victor some records you see about once a week in the thrift stores some you see once you have to grab those when they turn up 25 the laurie johnson orchestra my favorite things another lp where the cover sold it before i saw something christmas related that i could share 26 niles township high school east girls glee richard rusch director take me for a sleigh ride i find lots of locally produced records like this and i like to grab what i can from them it rarely rises to the level of best of but i thought this was a nice little song 27 patty weaver spring will be a little late this year never heard of her but if you sing something even slightly related to christmas i will find it and record it 28 nashville youth symphony harry lantz conductor children s christmas march more of that local christmas music i like it 29 david mallett northern lights maybe it s related to christmas maybe it s not but i often imagine the northern lights twinkling over santa s workshop in the winter they don t get any daylight during the winter so this is about all the natural light they get 30 jackie vernon slides of a ski lodge a comedy bit with exactly zero christmas content but skiing is a wintertime sport so i think it counts and in case you don t recognize his voice jackie vernon was the voice of frosty the snowman in the animated special happy birthday 31 reginald dixon at the organ of the tower ballroom blackpool wedding of the painted doll i can t resist a good organ record and it s not really a christmas song but i like to throw it in the pile 32 carl sandburg in de vinter time yep that carl sandburg doing a little wintry tune 33 jamestown high school a cappella choir 1990 1991 james a bogey conductor fum fum fum another local christmas track but a song i ve always enjoyed i had a version of this on a bargain basement christmas lp when i was a kid and it s stuck with me all these years 34 jim borden i wonder as i wander a unique folky album that included a full side of christmas tunes not sure if this was the absolute best track on there but it fit in with the space i had the other tracks will likely find a space on a future second best collection 35 chorus with rko studio orchestra conducted by hugo winterhalter new year s eve on time s square auld lang syne bringing up the rear is this soundtrack cut that adds to the christmas music of hugo winterhalter he released a 10 christmas record that was once expanded to a 12 with the addition of a couple of non christmas tracks someday i want to put all of his stuff in the same pile to show what a real label could do with his christmas discography oh a little bit about that cover it s my homage to the june christy album this time of year from 1961 an all original set of music for the holiday season my wife and i spent the christmas season of 2025 in santa fe nm with her family and one of the things we wanted to see was snow you don t get much of that in southwest florida problem was they were having a very dry winter and there was nothing around other than the occasional very dirty patch of ice in the shadows so one day we drove up into the santa fe national forest to the east it s up at a higher elevation and had gotten some snow earlier in the season we eventually found a hollow where the snow had persisted and we got the chance to run around and play in it for a few minutes i remember posing for this picture and trying to remember what june christy looked like on her lp cover i think i m close enough though not perfect everything else is just me playing around with gimp and making it look like a real album cover just a few minutes before this picture was shot we had pulled off at a different spot alongside the road and tried to walk down a trail to find some snow the trail was covered in ice though and i soon wound up flat on my back and in a lot of pain i was sore the rest of the trip and struggled to put on my jacket every day i was worried that i had broken something but it healed quickly enough that i think it was just a sprain but it sure did hurt i wasn t going to let it get in the way of having a good trip though we saw stuff all over the state of new mexico from carlsbad to white sands with roswell and the very large array in between i think i even shared a track or two with you during christmas in july this year from records i bought when i was out there i d never spent a christmas away from home before so it was a very different experience for me anyhow i was pretty proud of the cover this year i hope you enjoy it have a go at the download and let me know what you think i ll see you again when it s much closer to christmas this is ernie not bert the best of 2025 christmas in july mega if you enjoy this best of don t forget that there are a bunch of similar collections in the archives here s a list of all the years that we did a similar best of all these should include working download links so you can download and listen to the best tracks from all these years 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2015 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 note there was no christmas in july for 2016 2014 and 2013 i was busy doing other things during those years and couldn t get my act together to share any music also a few years ago i went through all the christmas in july tracks that didn t make the best of collections and put together a few second best of collections it s a tongue in cheek title because the songs making up these collections are in many cases just as good as the tracks on the actual best of s what happens is i have more than one version of a song and i try not to duplicate them so i have to pick one and the other goes unused same thing with an artist i only want to use one track from them so the others i may have go into the reject pile so there are lots of great tracks here that you ll enjoy i think i m due to make a few more of these collections since it s been a few years since i put these together maybe i ll work on that in the off season ha who am i kidding there is no off season around here if i m not posting i m recording and prepping for the next round of posts being a christmas blogger is a hard like one two three four five six seven eight nine ten and that s all i ve got for you today if there s nothing here for you to enjoy today you must not like christmas music see you at christmas time posted by ernie at 8 10 2026 08 00 00 am 34 comments sunday august 09 2026 chanukah in august the only day chanukah music can be really hard to find some times so i m very excited to be able to share with you these seven count em seven songs from four different albums this year i don t know if there s anything earth shattering here but quantity sometimes is it s own quality let s jump right in 1 tehiyah day school candles from far israel tehiyah songs of the seasons 2 tehiyah day school light the candle tehiyah songs of the seasons 3 tehiyah day school eight candles shine tehiyah songs of the seasons 4 tehiyah day school light one candle tehiyah songs of the seasons the first four tracks are from the same lp and feature a bunch of singing primary school children that s not what i was expecting based on the cover but that s what i got i guess i should have known i was still excited to find it 5 lynn roberts carmen baron juda campbell hanukkah holiday songs for all occasions 1978 i think this is the only rerun track of the day pulled from a kiddie lp with music for lots of different holidays 6 the children s choir and orchestra tav la taf pa amonim conducted by benny nagari holiday medley shana tova new year sookati my sooka for succot ma oz tsoor chanukah song shoshanat ya akov from the book of esther for purim dayenoo enough for us from the passover hagada heveno shalom we bring you shalom friendship sing children sing songs of israel 1981 woo that s a lot of medley this one could have gone to chanukah or new year s i think but it felt more chanukah to me so here it is this is the track from the above the fold album shown up top it s a rare singing album from caedmon most of their stuff is spoken word and unicef is tied up in here as well 7 unknown artist my dreydl mockingbird flight 1975 we finish up the day with a track from that five lp set of uncredited songs that s been popping up all season on here this was the only chanukah entry among the many songs on all those albums but i ll take what i can get and that s it for today as i keep hinting i ve got a surprise for you tomorrow so don t think that the season is over just yet it ll be worth your while to stick around one more day trust me mega posted by ernie at 8 09 2026 08 00 00 am 2 comments saturday august 08 2026 christmas in july 2026 part 39 good morning welcome to day 39 the last day of regular christmas in july posting around here for 2026 this won t be the last post of the season there are still a couple days of stuff to come but this is the last normal day and because i didn t plan ahead very well and found an odd number of shares there are eleven songs in the pile today instead of the usual ten so enjoy 1 sergio mendes my favorite things sergio mendes favorite things 1968 you wouldn t believe how bad a shape the cover of this record was in but i bought it anyway just to have another song to share with you pretty sure we ve done this one in the past but when i see em i need to buy em 2 unknown artists pine cones and holly berries with it s beginning to look like christmas from the score of meredith willson s here s love 10 33 rpm this is the last of the songs from the publisher s demo lp of tracks from the then new broadway production of here s love or at least that s the general consensus of what this 10 lp is no matter what it is it s filled with great new versions of the songs from the christmas themed play 3 the new hope singers soloist jan umphress bethlehem town canticle new hope for you this is the headline track of the day and it s the most interesting thing in the stack by far it s a version of simon garfunkel s scarborough fair but with new lyrics all about christmas give it a listen and i m sure you ll recognize the tune i love finding little things like this 4 will glahé and his orchestra the skater s waltz the new beer barrel polka 1965 a rerun that goes way back to the early days of christmas in july around here but always worth a revisit who doesn t love a good polka version of the classics 5 eydie gormé winter night love is a season 1959 been holding this one back all season long it s the very best track from this lp by eydie gorme if you haven t heard it before you re in for a real treat sorry this is the mono version but beggars can t be choosers i m sure there s a stereo version around the blog on one of the christmas in july best of collections if you want to hunt around but i m too lazy to link to it right now 6 joan morris and william bolcom piano white christmas the girl on the magazine cover songs of irving berlin 1979 a nice version of an actual christmas tune here for you interesting cover on this too looks like i ve shared this with you before but i don t have any memory of it must not leave much of an impression 7 sauter finegan and their orchestra midnight sleighride aka sleighride the return of the doodletown fifers 1960 this is a remake of my favorite track by sauter finegan it s a mid century modern reinterpretation of a tune by prokofiev and it s a great lost wintry tune the only real improvement here over their original recording is the use of stereo but they make the most of that 8 moe koffman swinging shepherd blues the magic flute of moe koffman 1984 a version of this song by it s author something else i ve been hanging onto until the end so here it is looks like he recorded this song quite a few times so i need to keep an eye out for his other versions 9 the shawnee choir earl willhoite director we praise thee o god christmas and concert songs for mixed chorus the last of the tracks i was able to pull from this lp for you you re still missing two songs that were on the outermost edge of this heat damaged lp someday i ll find a good copy and we can revisit this one 10 jenson publications holiday for winds sound ideas for concert band vol v 1979 the last of the left over tracks from last year and something else from an lp full of publisher s demos love these little bits of filler i doubt if i ll ever want to ...