Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music
| Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music | ||||
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| Studio album by Perry Como | ||||
| Released | Original Release: 1946 | |||
| Recorded | 1946, 1947, 1953 | |||
| Genre | Christmas | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
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Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music was Perry Como's first Christmas album, originally released as an RCA Victor 78 RPM album set in 1946. The original release included "O Little Town of Bethlehem" which was dropped one year later and replaced by the famous "White Christmas". This album, along with Como's later stereo Christmas albums, Season's Greetings from Perry Como and The Perry Como Christmas Album, are among the all-time best-selling Christmas albums and has been reissued several times.
The original release was an RCA Victor "Musical Smart Set" consisting of four 78 RPM records.
Disc 1:
Disc 2:
Disc 3:
Disc 4:
The 1947 Reissue: This reissue dropped the song "O Little Town Of Bethlehem" from the album and replaced it with "White Christmas". With these changes made, White Christmas was now on the second side of disc three moving "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" to the first side of disc four and "Winter Wonderland" to the second.
The 1951 Reissue: This reissue was the same as the 1947 reissue, only that it was also available on a 10" LP record as well as a 45 RPM record set, which contained 4 records.
The 1956 reissue was the first major change. The album included the same songs as before as well as eight "new" ones which had been released in 1953 on the Perry Como LP, "Around The Christmas Tree", which was actually a combination of two Extended-play 45s that were also released that year; one with the same name, "Around The Christmas Tree", and the other, "Christmas Joy". The album had the newer songs on Side One and the original eight songs on Side Two. The album was also released on three extended-play 45s. The first two came as a set (EPB-1243) and the third one was sold separately (EPA-920).
Side One:
Side Two:
In 1961, RCA Victor reissued the album on its budget label, RCA Camden, minus the track "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town". It was again reissued on RCA Camden in 1964. During the 1970s, Pickwick Records leased the rights to reissue several recordings from the RCA Victor catalog and reissued the album on the Pickwick label. RCA reclaimed the rights to most of the Camden/Pickwick recordings in the 1980s and reissued Merry Christmas Music on compact disc and LP again in 1987. The album has been reissued on the RCA Camden label at least twice on CD in Canada with new artwork.
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