Old Enough to Forget

Here we have a Nana Mouskouri album ... finally. I mean this is a sort of big deal. She was always that singer who wore the big black glasses. I had no idea what she sounded like, but it's funny that we all knew who she was. I mentioned in another post I thought that she and Roger Whittaker were two sides of the same coin. I managed to find Roger Whittaker's Christmas album, and recently I was rummaging in the dollar bin for Christmas records and scored a really nice copy of Nana Mouskouri's 1972 album "Christmas With Nana Mouskouri."  Musically the songs hold up really well. I'm never quite sure what to expect with some of the stuff from the early '70s. The arrangements lean to the traditional, although there are a number of songs where there's a folky flavour. This was before adult contemporary was a thing, but I suppose it was always a thing just not a genre. So many things get shoehorned into a box after the fact, and I'm trying to see where th...

Roger Whittaker and Nana Mouskouri always seemed to me to be two sides of the same coin, except one played a 12 string guitar and was a hell of a whistler. It's funny how you grow up with certain artists but have no idea who they are. Roger Whittaker was simply someone I knew about, but knew nothing about. So when I found his Christmas album I didn't hesitate I just picked it up and added it to my pile. I'm still listening to Christmas music, but in the run up to Epiphany I'm getting to the bottom of this year's pile, and I have to admit with all that's been going on I've spent less time in the basement ignoring my chores and listening to records. Still I did squirrel aside some time to try and take this one in. Eschewing the trend of merely recycling "Jingle Bells" and the other Christmas staples, Roger collects some of the lesser known Christmas songs, as well as a number of originals. As to the whistling, I have to admit old Roger didn't puc...