Re: [ARSCLIST] fwd: Christmas compilation, request

[Matthew Barton <mbarton@xxxxxxx>]

No, not mine anyway--it's a green and red design.

Matthew Barton
MBRS
The Library of Congress
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Washington, DC 20540-4696
202-707-5508
email: mbarton@xxxxxxx

>>> David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 1/28/2008 9:44:50 AM >>>
Rings a bell..does it happen to have a white cover with blue printing?

dl

Matthew Barton wrote:
> The album is "Greetings from Hollywood" and was issued by "American Entertainment Industries, Inc." in 1984 (AEI 2121). Most of the tracks seem to be from radio broadcasts or movies.
> 
> Matthew Barton
> MBRS
> The Library of Congress
> 101 Independence Ave., SE
> Washington, DC 20540-4696
> 202-707-5508
> email: mbarton@xxxxxxx 
> 
>>>> David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 1/27/2008 4:11:14 PM >>>
> This appeared on 78-C. Anyone know the album?  dl
> 
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> 
> I'm looking for a 33 rpm LP I bought about 25 years ago, while living in Los 
> Angeles. It was a Christmas album called something like Christmas With the 
> Stars. There are several other LP's (and now CD's) out there with the same 
> title, though they're not the one I'm looking for.
> 
>    The LP I'm looking for has several recordings on it that are, apparently, 
> nowhere to be found in print and I've tried. Among them are Il Est Ne, Le Divin 
> Enfant by the French singer Edith Piaf; O Holy Night by Robert Merrill (made 
> before a live audience during WW II, I think); O Come All Ye Faithful by Judy 
> Garland: and a song called Isn't It a Shame that Christmas Comes But Once a 
> Year by Jimmy Durante.
> 
>    I'd have thought that everything Edith Piaf, Robert Merrill and Judy Garland 
> (three of the most famous singers of the last 100 years) had ever recorded 
> would be available in print somewhere, but apparently not so. (The recording of 
> O Holy Night by Merrill with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which I have on 
> CD, isn't the same recording and isn't as good, imho).
> 
>    Does anyone have any ideas as to where I might be able to buy a copy of this 
> LP in good or better condition?
> 
>    I've been looking for this particular LP off and on for several years now, 
> without success.
> 
>    Any and all ideas are greatly apprecited.
> 
>    Thanks a bunch.
> 
>    Tom
> 
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