Old Enough to Forget

Christmas with Glen Campbell and The Hollywood Pops Orchestra with The Voices of Christmas  - there's a mouthful.  This is a new-to-me record, so I'll have to take a listen through to get myself oriented to what's going on. Another of my Christmas bin treasures. This was in reasonable shape, but has a couple of ticks, mainly on the first side. Nothing skips, and that's really all that matters. I'm finding with a lot of these older Christmas albums that there is no date on the jacket or the record. So it's off to the internet to try to date this "timeless" release. According to the pretty reliable Discogs.com, this was released in 1971, and that makes sense. The production with the strings is pure shrill cheese, and I wonder if this was a contractual obligation album, as there's very little out there on this one. Ah, I've just gone through the first side and I think I get the long title now. There are five songs here by Glen Campbell, and a few ...

To prepare for this holiday season I went to my go-to store and decided to take advantage of their Black Friday sale and pillage their dollar bin to see what was there. I ended up finding an even dozen albums and, with the discount (yeah, I'm so cheap I was looking for a deal on albums in the dollar bins), I was out of there for less than ten bucks. Here we are December 1, and we're (the Royal "We") going into the Christmas pile and starting off with Andy Williams' classic from 1963. You never know what you're going to end up with, but I wound up with a very nice copy, and as a plus, the jacket still had its original shrinkwrap. I still find it odd when I find a record thusly wrapped. I had friends who told me never, ever, ever leave that shit on - it'll warp your records. Anyway, I've always loved Andy Williams. As a young kid, I have a handful of memories. From The Andy Williams Show I remember Cookie Bear. Don't ask me why. The other was making ...