¡Something Festive! is my all time favorite holiday LP. I bring it out right after Thanksgiving (along with Christmas on the Bandstand) and keep it on the turntable well into January.
I own multiples copies of SF for fear that it will be damaged or lost or permanently disappear from the second hand market (a consumer strategy I extend to bag and jacket acquisitions).
Here's the playlist.
¡Something Festive! features most of the top A & M recording artists of the day like Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass and Liza Minnelli (to the relief of some, The Carpenters are missing from this album).
If you spot a copy of ¡Something Festive! in the LP bins at Goodwill, buy it and add it to your archives. But first, examine it closely to make sure a scratch is not running through the album's most brilliant track, B3, Claudine Longet's grim rendition of Snow (sounding like an ancestral version of the theme song to Twin Peaks).
3 comments:
I picked this up last week from a bin of vinyl Christmas LPs. I fully agree that it is delightful, and, yes, the Claudine Longet track is a real standout.
instead of showing off why not post a link? Or do you think people are just interested in your opinions?
I own multiples copies of for fear that it will be damaged or lost or permanently disappear from the second. Custom Greek Threads
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