TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS Silent Night Waring's Pennsylvanians DECCA 350
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A series of great JAZZ Records from early Ragtime to Beb-Bop on 78 rpm Victrola Records
TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - just in time for the second W War II Christmas issued in
Nov 1942
Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians with Glee Club soloists
in a great Christmas Album Decca 350Fred Waring And His Pennsylvanians* ?– 'Twas The Night Before Christmas
A1 'Twas The Night Before Christmas
Written-By – Clement Clarke Moore, Ken Darby
A2 Silent Night (Christmas Hymn). Introducing: Come Unto Him (From "The Messiah")
Written-By [Come Unto Him] – George Frederic Handel*
Written-By [Silent Night] – Franz Gruber
A3 Oh Gathering Clouds
Written-By – K. Marjorie Bain
B1 Adeste Fidelels (Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful)
B2 Cantique De Noel (O Holy Night)
Written-By – Adolphe Adam*
B3 The First Nowell - O, Little Town Of Bethlehem - Carol Of The Bells
Arranged By – Peter J. Wilhousky*
Written-By – L. H. Rodner*, M. Leontovich*, P. Brooks*
B4 Beautiful Savior
4x10" 78 rpm record w orig album
Condition:
EXCELLENT MINUS basically unworn, but scuffed. plays EXCEPTIONALLY quiet faint hiss
ALBUM GREAT light rubbing to edges
A GREAT COPY
One of the enduring images of the 1920s is of the college boy in a raccoon coat, out for some jazz kicks with a hip flask and a flapper on his arm. Waring's Pennsylvanians popularized this type of image through their music, stage shows, and film appearances. The band was formed in 1918 at Pennsylvania State University by the brothers Fred and Tom Waring, and their friends Freddy Buck and Poley McClintock. They first billed themselves as the Waring-McClintock Snap Orchestra and then became WaringÆs Banjo Orchestra before adopting the name of WaringÆs Pennsylvanians in 1922. In 1923 they had a big hit with the record Sleep and the song continued to be the band's theme song for many years to come. The Pennsylvanians were very popular at colleges and often played fraternity parties, proms, and local dances early in their career and then graduated to playing at movie theatres and vaudeville houses across the United States becoming one of the sought after acts in show business. In 1925 Waring's Pennsylvanians had a huge hit with Collegiate and it remains their best-known song. The tune is a wonderful little time capsule of college life in the 1920s. By the end of the 1920s they were one of the most popular musical acts in the country and they starred in an early sound film called "Syncopation" in 1929. In the 1930s they were one of the hottest acts on radio hosting shows sponsored by Old Gold, Ford, Chesterfield and General Electric and if that were not enough Fred Waring developed and marketed the kitchen appliance the Waring Blender. The Pennsylvanians stopped making records in 1932 because they thought that they were competing against their radio show and would not do so again until 1942.
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