most memorable Christmas album/tape from your childhood?

[ornamentmaven]

I am calling her today! She has a good memory about most things - but others, she's clue-less!

[ornamentmaven]

My most memorable Christmas album from childhood was a Bing Crosby one - with White Christmas and I'll be Home for Christmas. Don't know the official name, but it was great

[Santa57]

Oregongirl, I hope somebody can help, things like that can drive ya crazy trying to remember! It just doesn't ring any bells with me. All I could think of was the Vienna Boy's Choir.

Ornamentmaven, it's hard to go wrong with Bing! So very many truly priceless Christmass albums by so many, I'm not sure I could choose!

[Merry Christmas Darling]

This is the only album I remember that my mother had:



And that was between stepfathers. I was thirteen I think. We had lousy Christmases with the two stepfathers.

But I remember my Boston Pops album that we listened to right after we got married. I chose it, loved it, still have it and even bought a CD of it. I always think of this album first.

[steph535]

This is the only album I remember that my mother had:



And that was between stepfathers. I was thirteen I think. We had lousy Christmases with the two stepfathers.

But I remember my Boston Pops album that we listened to right after we got married. I chose it, loved it, still have it and even bought a CD of it. I always think of this album first.

Don't know anything about the first album, but the Boston Pops Christmas albums are always good.

[ornamentmaven]

Oregongirl - no luck with my Mom- she doesn't remember it at all

[Merry Christmas Darling]

As you can see, The Columbus Boychoir sang with Bing Crosby(spell check doesn't want boychoir to be one word):

Leonard Bernstein Kaddish Symphony, Private Label (1966), The Columbus Boychoir, Donald Bryant, Music Director
Columbus Boychoir School 25th Anniversary Concert, June 5 1965 (1965), Private issue, The Columbus Boychoir, Donald Bryant, Music Director, Live concert recording, Westminster Choir College
Columbus Boychoir Christmas Concert, December 1964 (1964), Private issue, The Columbus Boychoir, Donald Bryant, Music Director, Live concert recordings, Alexander Hall (Princeton), 12-inch LP recordings of excerpts from Christmas portion of Handel’s Messiah (+Hallelujah), 10-inch LP recording of Christmas carols
Firestone presents Your Favorite Christmas Carols (1963), Columbus Boychoir with the Rise Stevens, Brian Sullivan, and the Firestone Orchestra and Chorus, Donald Bryant, director
Family Christmas Favorites, c. 1962, Decca, The Columbus Boychoir with Bing Crosby, Donald Bryant, Conductor
The Columbus Boychoir, c. 1962, Donald Bryant, Music Director
Christmastime, c. 1960, Decca, The Columbus Boychoir with other choirs, Donald Bryant, conductor
Singing for the Joy of It (1961), Decca DL 74135, The Columbus Boychoir, Donald Bryant, Music Director
Joy to the World, c. 1960, Decca DL 78920, The Columbus Boychoir, Donald Bryant, Music Director
The Columbus Boychoir, c. 1960, Gothic, The Columbus Boychoir with the Princeton Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Harsanyi, Conductor; Joanna Richard, Soprano; Rachel Armstrong, Alto, Donald Bryant, Conductor
Festival of Song (1955), Decca DL 8106, The Columbus Boychoir, Herbert Huffman, Music Director
Arrigo Boito Mephistofele “Prologue” (1954), RCA, The Columbus Boychoir with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Conductor; Nicola Moscona, Bass., Herbert Huffman, Conductor, Taken from the broadcast of March 14 (1954)
Amahl and the Night Visitors, Original Cast of the NBC telecast (1951), RCA 6485-2-RG, American Boychoir chorister Chet Allen
The Lord’s Prayer; O Holy Night, c. 1950, RCA Victor, The Columbus Boychoir, Herbert Huffman, conductor
Favorite Christmas Carols, c. 1947, The Columbus Boychoir, Herbert Huffman, Music Director
The Columbus Boychoir – May 6 1947 concert, Herbert Huffman, Music Directo

[Merry Christmas Darling]

Here's more:

Paper dated December 1, 1961

Columbus Boychoir To Sing
Christmas Opera At Barry
"Amahl and the Night Visitors,"
an opera which has now
become a traditional part of the
American observance of Christmas,
will be presented by the
Columbus Boychoir at 8:15 p. m.
Monday, Dec. 4, in the Barry
College auditorium.
* The concert, third attraction
of the Barry Culture Series,
will also include folk songs,
sacred music and spirituals.
Organized in Columbus, Ohio,
with an initial enrollment of 30
boys in 1940, the Boychoir attracted
attention throughout the
U. S. and after local and national
radio performances the boys
made their metropolitan debut
in New York's Town Hall in
1943.
Subsequent concerts were given
in Carnegie Hall, Radio City
Music Hall, the Academy of
Music in Philadelphia and
principal auditoriums throughout
the country. The boys, under
the direction of Donald Bryant,
have sung with the New York
Philharmonic, the Philadelphia
Orchestra, the NBC Symphony
under the baton of Toscanini
and the Bach Aria Group.
In addition to making a film
for RKO titled, "America's
Singing Boys," the choir, its
adult soloists, faculty members
and more than 1,000
pounds of "Amahl" scenery
and costumes, completed an
airborne 20,000 mile tour of 18
South and Central American
countries, singing more than
50 concerts in eight weeks to
audiences of nearly 75,000 Latin
Americans.
During the opera which will
be sung in English, Mary Evelyn
Bruce will be seen as the
mother of Amahl and Gerald
Carpenter, Alan Olsen and
Franklyn Ehrhardt will appear
as the Three Kings.
http://library.stu.edu/ulma/va/3005/1961/12-01-1961.pdf

My brother and his ex-wife used to teach at Barry.

[Merry Christmas Darling]

I was wrong about the Firestone album; it hadn't come out when I was thirteen.

[Santa57]

I was wrong about the Firestone album; it hadn't come out when I was thirteen.

I've always wanted to buy one of those. As far as I can remember, I've never heard one. From what I've been able to dig up, Firestone got the idea from Goodyear. Seeing the success of those albums, they decided to try it. Love the history of a lot of this stuff!