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Paul Mickelson - Christmas Concert at the Console

I found this one among my dad's old records. It always surprised me at how old my father's musical tastes were. I could never reconcile his taste in record to how old he actually was. Still, I suppose that was more to do with his strict upbringing and the near intolerance of all things secular that stemmed from his parents. Paul Mickelson (not to be confused with Phil) got his start in the '50s playing organ for Billy Graham crusades, and would later be an executive at Word records and would later start his own label, Supreme Records and a number of smaller subsidiary imprints. Christmas Concert at the Console was on Console Records, but there's no year on the jacket or record, and the only reference I can find states it was released in the '60s.  The album itself was recorded at the Console of the N.B.C. Pipe Organ in Hollywood. I actually love the cover photo, and wish there was a little more detail on the Console itself. I've always been fascinated by organs...