Missing Mom/Dad's Firestone Christmas Album...

[Alfred]

Hey Gang,

Thought today, I'm really missing the old-school Firestone Christmas album my Mom & Dad had when I was a kid. Our one and only Christmas album, we played it over and over annually, from about Nov. 28th to Christmas morning, throughout the season, with Andy Williams, Dinah Shore, Robert Goulet, Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., folks like that, "Sleigh Ride", "Let It Snow", and so on...

I think it was this one...



They knew how to make a Christmas album back then, and those old-school stars knew how to sing 'em...

AL in Asheville

[Kevin A]

We had one similar to yours as well as this one. They're still around here somewhere.

[TheresaD]

Al it's funny that you mention this now. A couple days ago I stopped over a friend's house with a bunch of just such albums. There were the Firesone albums, including the one you pictured here, as well as several other oldies but goodies that my parents used to bring out every year and play when we were putting up the Christmas tree. They no longer have a turn table and didn't want the albums so I brought them over to my friend's mother who is in her 80s. She was delighted. She still has a turntable and makes her son drag it upstairs every year so she can listen to her christmas records. She was planning on having him do just that this weekend. There's alot to be said for the nostalgia of that music. I always liked listening to it back then.

[Alfred]

Hey Kevin,

Yep, that's just what I'm talkin' about. Good ol' Burl Ives, he played the snowman in the Rudolph Reindeer special, right?

And Theresa, that's a great story, and genuinely nice gesture on your part, in keeping with the Season. I don't have a turntable anymore, either. Bless that woman's heart for wanting to hear her old Christmas albums. I'm with her on that...

AL in Asheville

[caseydog]

We had one similar to yours as well as this one. They're still around here somewhere.

This Burl Ives album is available on iTunes for ten bucks.

[caseydog]

Hey Gang,

Thought today, I'm really missing the old-school Firestone Christmas album my Mom & Dad had when I was a kid. Our one and only Christmas album, we played it over and over annually, from about Nov. 28th to Christmas morning, throughout the season, with Andy Williams, Dinah Shore, Robert Goulet, Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., folks like that, "Sleigh Ride", "Let It Snow", and so on...

I think it was this one...



They knew how to make a Christmas album back then, and those old-school stars knew how to sing 'em...

AL in Asheville

These albums (there were several) are available on eBay. If you know the songlists, you can probably buy most of them on iTunes.

CD

[Miriam C.]

Now see I have to go through our albums. We still have a turn table just for the purpose. Have a holly, jolly Christmas

[len19070]

Its funny how things like this can trigger such great memories.

For me, the Holiday Season doesn't start until I hear Nat King Cole sing The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqpyfa2EmzQ

Happy Trails

Len

[toypusher]

Its funny how things like this can trigger such great memories.

For me, the Holiday Season doesn't start until I hear Nat King Cole sing The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqpyfa2EmzQ

Happy Trails

Len

Len, I really like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3M7IR6jkpc

[Oasis Maker]

Ahh yes, take me back to albums. Not only nostalgic but any audiophile will tell you they sound much better than digital too. Add that to the lost art of liner notes and great photography ... (Well I did just put my entire CD collection on my computer. Amazing technology, but it's just not the same.)

Pass the eggnog and Nat King Cole please... and with just a slight scratch as you gently lower the needle.

Scott

[mikeschn]

You can buy it on Amazon.com too!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Goodyear-Great-So ... B00102XAA4

Mike...

[steve smoot]

Ahh yes, take me back to albums. Not only nostalgic but any audiophile will tell you they sound much better than digital too.

Scott

Am I nuts...no don't answer that....but I always thought that my 8 tracks sounded better than my CD's too...could this also be true? I really don't know, cause I wear hearing aids now and can't hear for crap anyways...

[Scooter]

As a film photography friend of mine pointed out...there's no hard "originals" of anything anymore. Everything's a copy of a copy of a copy....

Not that there's anything wrong with that, I'd just never thought of digital that way before.

[Oasis Maker]

Ahh yes, take me back to albums. Not only nostalgic but any audiophile will tell you they sound much better than digital too.

Scott

Am I nuts...no don't answer that....but I always thought that my 8 tracks sounded better than my CD's too...could this also be true? I really don't know, cause I wear hearing aids now and can't hear for crap anyways...

You're hardly nuts. When Sony introduced the CD back in 1982, they never imagined it would become the new standard for music. In the 90's, high end audio companies were selling 20 thousand dollar CD players and DAC converters with the "hope" of just coming close to the warmth and naturalness of vinyl's sound. All ads, company write ups and reviews still use the album and a good turntable as the benchmark in sound.

Some would say that we our tumbling back even further than CD's with compressed mp3 files, iPods etc. At least Apple came out with their "Lossless" digital transfer. That helps.

Scott G.

[Aaron Coffee]

Couple years ago dug through my albums and found a Gene Autry Christmas Album, I think my nephew (7 now) tried to ware it out, if that is even possible.