Tuesday, July 15, 2025
CiJ 2025-Day 15
1. Hal Leonard Concert Band-The Saints' Hallelujah (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
2. Lafayette College Choir-Dr. John Raymond, Director-Baritone Solo: James R. Hobbs, '59-The Lost Chord (By Special Request) (Annual Spring Concert May 1959, 1959)
3. The Columbus Boychoir-Directed By Donald Hanson-Epiphany (The Columbus Boychoir Performs Zoltán Kodály, 1975)
4. Jamestown High School A Cappella Choir 1990-1991-James A. Bogey, Conductor-Christmas Oratorio: In My Heart, I Believe (Songs Of '91, 1991)
5. Jenson Publications-The Thirteen Days Of Christmas (New Music For Concert Band-Volume 27-Easy Edition, 1990)
6. Clear Springs Chorus, Directed By Miss Shari Steffen, Accompanist: Mrs. Patricia Paul-Stille Nacht (Clear Springs Chorus Sings)
7. The Emeralds-Holiday Schottische (Bird Dance, 1982)
8. Jim Borden-Gloria In Excelsis (Jim Borden Sings Folk Songs-Christmas Carols, 1964)
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Monday, July 14, 2025
CiJ Years Past-Day 14
Another day, another set of old shares from this day in history. Once we get to the end of the month, you're going to have so much Christmas music you'll have to start listening in April to get it all through your ears by December 31st.
2021 (nothing...)
CiJ 2025-Day 14
Nothing much special I can think of about the 14th. Not quite the middle of the month, but certainly not the beginning. Oh well, can't say something witty every day, I suppose. The highlight track of the day is a nice version of Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year by Patty Weaver. I just thought this was another pretty girl singer, but when I looked her up at Discogs, I was surprised to find that she was a long-time soap opera actress and she has an interesting looking Christmas CD out there that I need to keep an eye out for. She sings a Christmas song about Elvis on there, and that's right up my alley. I even shared out a single by her at Christmas last year and didn't make a connection. (Apologies for leaving the shrink wrap on there when I took the picture. I didn't think it was going to be that bad, yet it's that bad...) In the meantime, download and enjoy another eight tracks of Christmas fun!
1. Aled Jones-Organyyd Huw Tregelles Williams-Ave Maria (Ave Maria, 1984)
2. Choir Of St. Andrew's Collegiate Church, Steyning, West Sussex, Music Director: Neil A. Page, Soloists: Nigel Newman, Ian Mumford, Melanie Lumsdaine, Kate Goddard-Matins Responsory (I Was Glad, 1985)
3. Patty Weaver-Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year (Patty Weaver Sings "As Time Goes By", 1976)
4. Jamestown High School A Cappella Choir 1990-1991-Men Of Tomorrow-James A. Bogey, Conductor-Little Innocent Lamb (Songs Of '91, 1991)
5. The Naasko Singers-Ring Christmas Bells (An Evening With Song, 1975)
6. Northern Illinois University Wind Ensemble-Stephen Squires, Conductor-Christmas Processional (Alfred Young Concert Band Music (1988), 1988)
7. Jim Borden-Polish Lullabye (Jim Borden Sings Folk Songs-Christmas Carols, 1964)
8. Jenson Publications And Purifoy Publishing-Mary Had A Baby (Choral Celebration Vol. VI, 1984)
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Sunday, July 13, 2025
CiJ Years Past-Day 13
Struggling a bit here to keep up with these posts, got a lot going on at work and there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done I want to do, but I'll make it work. Here are more links to Christmas in July shares on this day of the month that are still available for download. It's more music that you can shake a stick at, I guarantee!
2022 (a best-of from 2010)
2021 (a best-of from 2012)
CiJ 2025-Day 13
Lucky number 13! I hope nothing bad happens to you if you download today's shares, but I can make no guarantees. Perhaps everything will be OK since it's a Sunday and not a Friday, but you never can tell. Today's highlight is from an LP not titled "First Place Again" Playboy as you might think. No, it's just a plain old self-titled LP from Paul Desmond and he does a great instrumental version of Greensleeves with his friends. As you likely know, the music for Greensleeves is the same as What Child Is This, so as long as they don't sing the words, it's the same song. Now I need to track down a stereo version. It's taken me this long to dig up a mono copy, so how hard could a stereo copy be to find?
1. Jamestown High School A Cappella Choir 1990-1991-James A. Bogey, Conductor-Processional-Kyrie Christe (Songs Of '91, 1991)
2. Anton Brees-Angels We Have Heard On High (A Spiritual Message From The Singing Tower)
3. Paul Desmond And Friends-Greensleeves (Paul Desmond, 1960)
4. Mike Green, Catherine Slonecki, April Inyard, Scott Jasnow And Kelly Kaneblet-Lippai-Austria (Holiday Songs Around The World, 1994)
5. Clear Springs Chorus, Directed By Miss Shari Steffen, Accompanist: Mrs. Patricia Paul-I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (Clear Springs Chorus Sings)
6. Jenson Publications-The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) (New Music For Concert Band-Volume 27-Easy Edition, 1990)
7. Jim Borden-Childrens' Carol (Jim Borden Sings Folk Songs-Christmas Carols, 1964)
8. Hal Leonard Concert Band-Feliz Navidad (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
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Saturday, July 12, 2025
CiJ Years Past-Day 12
Today makes for an even dozen of these daily oldie recaps. I hope they're helping someone out there. Here are some more links to old Christmas in July shares. Enjoy!
2022 & 2022 (one of my classic second-best-of collections)
2021 (Nothing, nada, zip, zero, zilch)
2019 and 2019 and 2019 (how much did I share in 2019? It's an embarrassment of riches)
CiJ 2025-Day 12
On the twelfth day of Christmas in July, Ernie gave to me, eight tracks of Christmas cheer! Best I could do on short notice. I'll stop making up songs now and share the featured track with you as shown above. A festive polka that I've shared with you before, also in mono. I wonder why a stereo copy has eluded me for all these years? Such are the mysteries that keep me awake at night. (Nope, I'm wrong, looks like I shared out a stereo copy in 2018. I've shared to much I can't even keep track of it all...)
1. St. Mary's Choir, Boys And Adult Choir-Silent Night (In Remembrance...)
2. Professor Max Hiendlmayr-Schubert: Ave Maria (The Bells Of St. Mary's And Other Organ Selections, 1970)
3. Texas Lutheran College Choir-Paul Engelstad, Director-Song Of The Crib (Sacred Music At Texas Lutheran College)
4. Northern Illinois University Wind Ensemble-Stephen Squires, Conductor-Medley Christmas (Alfred Concert Band Music (1988), 1988)
5. Will Glahé And His Orchestra-Holiday Polka (The Big Band Polka Hits, 1963)
6. The Naasko Singers-Sleigh Ride (An Evening With Song, 1975)
7. Jamestown High School A Cappella Choir 1990-1991-James A. Bogey, Conductor-Swedish Dance Carol (Songs Of '91, 1991)
8. Jenson Publications And Purifoy Publishing-Angels, Shepherds And Kings (Choral Celebration Vol. VI, 1984)
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Friday, July 11, 2025
CiJ 2025-Day 11
1. Clear Springs Chorus, Directed By Miss Shari Steffen, Accompanist: Mrs. Patricia Paul-Pine Cones And Holly Berries (Clear Springs Chorus Sings)
2. John Gart At The Conn Electronic Organ With The Minute Men-The March Of The Toys (Organ On The March, 1959)
3. The Naasko Singers-Christmas Is (An Evening With Song, 1975)
4. Jamestown High School A Cappella Choir 1990-1991-James A. Bogey, Conductor-Fum, Fum, Fum (Songs Of '91, 1991)
5. Jim Borden-Rocking Carol (Jim Borden Sings Folk Songs-Christmas Carols, 1964)
6. Lenore Engdahl, Pianist-Cradle Song (Piano Music For Children By Dmitri Kabalevsky, 1957)
7. Jenson Publications And Purifoy Publishing-They Kept On Praising His Birth (Choral Celebration Vol. VI, 1984)
8. Hal Leonard Concert Band-The Hallelujah Chorus (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
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Thursday, July 10, 2025
CiJ 2025-Day 10
A little bit of good news for you today. I found an LP deep in the stacks that should have been in the Christmas in July stack, and another one at a little local thrift store, so I was able to add almost thirty tracks to the pool. That lets me increase the songs per day up to eight from seven. And I'm likely to need to bump that up again later in the month as I figure out what exactly is in the pile. Still going to be a lot of sampler tracks which I know are not one of our favorite bits, but they make for a more healthy download each day. Headline track for the day is from the Allen Keller LP shown above. It's a rerun from a previous year, but it's the sort of thing I really love to find. A true Christmas track that doesn't seem to have seen the light of day anywhere else. And how can you go wrong with something on Charlie Parker's record label?
1. Lafayette College Choir-Dr. John Raymond, Director-Baritone Solo: Victor R. Partridge, '59-I Wonder As I Wander (Annual Spring Concert May 1959, 1959)
2. Clear Springs Chorus, Directed By Miss Shari Steffen, Accompanist: Mrs. Patricia Paul-Westminster Carol (Clear Springs Chorus Sings)
3. Jamestown High School A Cappella Choir 1990-1991-James A. Bogey, Conductor-Adeste Fidelis (Songs Of '91, 1991)
4. Allen Keller And Trombones-Christmas Road (A New Look At The World, 1962)
5. Aled Jones-Organyyd Huw Tregelles Williams-Bethlehem (Ave Maria, 1984)
6. Children Of St. John's School, Toronto, Under The Direction Of Sister Mary Hamilton C.N.D.-A Child Is Born In Bethlehem (Music Selections For Come To The Father, 1967)
7. Hal Leonard Concert Band-Treasury Of Carols (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
8. Jenson Publications-The Bell Carol (New Music For Concert Band-Volume 27-Easy Edition, 1990)
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Wednesday, July 09, 2025
CiJ Years Past-Day 9
Is anyone actually finding these recaps of old Christmas in July posts helpful? I'm not really getting much feedback on them. I guess most visitors hereabouts have been coming for a long time now and already have all these old downloads in their music collections already. But I'm going to keep doing them, at least for the time being. I'm sure someone new will stumble by and find them helpful. If this is your first time seeing one of these recap posts, these are links to all the old Christmas in July shares in the archives that still have active downloads. There are lots more, but you'll just be frustrated by the lack of Zippyshare download connectivity. To the list!
2022 (The second-best collection, volume 3)
2021 (An old best-of from 2010)
CiJ 2025-Day 9
Day 9, nothing really special about day 9 I'm afraid. I'll point you to the selection by Bette Stalnecker today, not for the special lyrics she created for the classic White Christmas, but for the fact that I ripped her contributions a couple of years ago but forgot to share them. The LP popped up in my collection recently and looked really familiar, but I couldn't find where I had ever shared the tracks. I eventually discovered an old rip in my collection and I must have forgotten to put it in the Christmas In July folder that year. I wonder how many other songs I've missed out on over the past twenty years because I didn't put it in the correct folder. I bet it's a non-zero number. But I've got it corrected this year, you can now listen to her at-times masculine voice over and over again. Oh, I also wanted to point out the Mannheim Steamroller link in one of the arrangement sampler albums. There's not much of note in most of those, but I thought it kind of funny that they made a big deal about using Chip Davis' arrangement. Enjoy!
1. Clear Springs Chorus, Directed By Miss Shari Steffen, Accompanist: Mrs. Patricia Paul-We Need A Little Christmas (Clear Springs Chorus Sings)
2. Bette Stalnecker With The Keyboard Artistry Of John Bos And The Bob Cline Singers-White Christmas (Christmas/Spirit)
3. Hal Leonard Concert Band-A Fresh Aire Christmas (Hal Leonard Concert Band 1990 Easy Edition, 1990)
4. Choir Of St. Andrew's Collegiate Church, Steyning, West Sussex, Music Director: Neil A. Page-Prayer For A New Mother (I Was Glad, 1985)
5. Northern Illinois University Wind Ensemble-We Three Kings And All That Jazz (Alfred's Concert Band '84, 1984)
6. Jim Borden-What Shall We Give? (Jim Borden Sings Folk Songs-Christmas Carols, 1964)
7. Jenson Publications-Jingle Bells (New Music For Concert Band-Volume 27-Easy Edition, 1990)
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