Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...album cover is a red sticker emblazoned with the record pitchman's call: "30 Complete Selections on 2 LPs, Regularly $9.98, Special Only $3.98." Inside is a strange mixture of musical candies: Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy singing Indian Love Call, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony playing the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin. Perez Prado, Tommy Dorsey and Perry Como rub grooves with Enrico Caruso, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Leopold Stokowski...
Lanza Sings Christmas Carols (RCA Victor Stereo). Tenor Lanza, who recorded this album in Italy not long before his death this fall, sings his carols straight, and they have rarely sounded better: Away in a Manger, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Silent Night...
Christmas in Scandinavia (Axel Stordahl and his Orchestra and Chorus; Decca LP). An engaging collection of carols from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The album comes without translations, but it manages to make considerably fresher comments on the season than most of the competition...
Christmas Carols (The Randolph Singers, conducted by David Randolph; Westminster Stereo). The serious collector of carols could scarcely do better than this album. The Randolph group sings with sensitivity and precision, and the selections are ones that the listener is not likely to stumble across in a month of Christmases: Patapan; Saint Staffan; Quid Petis, O Fili; Bring a Torch, Jeanette...
...salad days, Singer Sands honked and rocked his way to sudden fortune with a voice like a jackdaw's cry. Now at the awkward age-22 -he has renounced rock 'n' roll for balladeering on the theory that "I have matured as a person." His latest album fails to prove that point, but at least it demonstrates that behind the old postnasal drip, a sweetly lyric set of pipes was growing all the time...