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Traditional Christmas Music
on GetCalhoun.com
With only a couple of exceptions*,
all the music below was heard exactly...once. It
comes from live radio shows. Your parents or grandparents, or maybe
even great
grandparents may have heard some of these songs before going about
their
Christmas business long long ago. The shows on which this music was
heard were
saved to a record, and then put up and forgotten until being
rescued by forward
thinking collectors. The audio was transferred to reel to reel tape,
and then perhaps
to cassette, and finally to digital format so that it would play on
computers. Most come
from the 40's and 50's, the period when Christmas was the best ever,
and nobody had ever
heard of "winter lights", "winter music", and God and Jesus weren't
banned.
Click on the Playlist below.
Over one hour of GREAT music...perhaps not the best
quality, but GREAT music, which is all new to you and an unusual
treat to listen to.
It will open on
your computer in
Windows Media or Winamp.
Whatever you have that plays music... You
will enjoy!
*Mario Lanza and Bing Crosby were
played on a special Christmas Eddie Cantor Christmas show.
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch
was heard by children and
grownups from 1940 to 1956.
The music here is from a rare
Christmas show. |
 Bing
Crosby with his hit, White Christmas used to mean Christmas,
and still does for folks who like the old fashioned music.
White Christmas remains the best selling record of all time! |
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activate the Streaming Playlist
*Estimated Playlist length:
1 hour 7 minutes 40
seconds
1. Silent Night Gene Autry (1:23)
2. Adeste Fidelis Bing Crosby 1947 (2:12)
3. Christmas Medly Gene Autry at Melody Ranch (1:58)
4. Dennis Day Christmas Medly 1938 (2:59)
5. Dennis Day Christmas Medly 1954.mp3
6. Dennis Day I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas 1942.mp3
7. Dennis Day Oh Come All Ye Faithful 1944.mp3
8. Fibber and Molly on Politics and Christmas Medly Billy Mills 1949.mp3
9. Here Comes Santa Claus Gene Autry.mp3
10. Jack Benny and the Christmas LSMFT Song.mp3
11. Jingle Bells Bing Crosby 1947.mp3
12. Jingle Bells in Swing Billy Mills Orchestra 1943 (1:38)
13. Larry Stevens Ave Maria 1945.mp3
14. Let It Snow Frank Sinatra 1945.mp3
15. Oh Come All Ye Faithful Mario Lanza .mp3
16. Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Gene Autry.mp3
17. One Horse Open Sleigh Phil Harris 1949.mp3
18. Phil Harris Big Band Jingle Bells 1940.mp3
19. Santa is Coming To Town Alice Fay 1949.mp3
20. Silent Night Bing Crosby 1947 (2:09)
21. The Christmas Song Bing Crosby 1947 (3:37)
22. The Kingsmen and Marian Jordan Story of Rudolph 1949 (2:16)
23. The Kingsmen I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas 1942 (2:06)
24. The Kingsmen Let's Have An Old Fashioned Christmas 1948.mp3
25. The Kingsmen Only 15 Shopping Days Until Christmas 1948.mp3
26. The Night Before Christmas 1943 Marian Jordan.mp3
27. The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers Billy Mills Orchestra 1946.mp3
28. Toyland on Red Skelton by Anita Ellis.mp3
29. White Christmas Bing Crosby 1947.mp3
30. White Christmas Gene Autry.mp3
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to activate the Streaming Playlist
 Jack
Benny plays "Love in Bloom" on his violin for Dennis Day and some Christmas
kids.
Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby share a
Christmas window. |
Even though Dennis Day had his own radio and television
shows, he will always be remembered as the comic/singer on
the Jack Benny Show.
Billy Mills was best known for his his orchestrations on the
Fibber& Molly Show
Fibber McGee and Molly were character names for Jim and
Marian Jordan who were actually married. One of the most
beloved radio shows, it played from 1935-1957! Christmas was
always a big deal with Fibber and Molly.
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Phil
Harris and Alice Fay were
actually married. Harris started
with Jack Benny in 1934 and
eventually moved to his own
Phil Harris and Alice Fay Show.
Harris was a master fast talker,
Red
Skelton. Even though Red doesn't have a song in our list, he
was one of the all time prolific producers of Christmas fare
for young and old alike on radio and TV and one of the most
beloved old time radio artists. 
