Old Enough to Forget

Ah, a good old fashioned sing-a-long album full of medleys of all your favourite Christmas carols. Over the course of eight songs, Max accompanied by a full orchestra conducted by Frank Barber, would tackle and wrestle to the ground twenty-eight songs, and one reprise. Max was a British comedian, singer, and impressionist whose career started in the mid '40s and he kept going for over sixty years. He passed away at the age of 89 in 2012. It was his singalong series that apparently sold in the millions on Pye Records, and he wasn't targeting the youth market - he was aiming for an older demographic and was hearkening to a bygone era. The bottom right corner on this one has Vol. 8, which at first confused me. Were there seven more in this series? Well, yes ... and no. There weren't seven Christmas albums, but this was his eighth. Don't worry, I'm still confused too. I have to admit that I had prejudged the album based solely on the cover. It looked like a children...