Various - Santa Swings...The Windup: 27 Christmas Stockings Full Of Shellac Dust

Shellac instead of stardust: when Santa Claus takes off his boots and unpacks the gramophone after his work is done: Bear Family Records® delves deep into the shellac box!

No intrusive bells, chumming ho-ho's or strangely distorted reindeer voices: Every year around the same time the displays of the department stores are bending with hastily and often suspiciously similar compiled 'swing' samplers, since ”swing is coming back."

Our journey through the depths of various shellac racks, however, brought to light quite a number of undiscovered treasures. Thus we could stand up for the true 'Spirit of Swing'.

Thrilling music of the '30s and '40s, highly danceable, elegant but cool, performed by expert jazz musicians, at the time pressed onto a mélange of shellac, slate flour, soot and cotton flakes, to be played with a steel needle (or optionally cactus spikes for lower volume) at an unbelievable 78 RPM and .... extremely fragile.

'Windup', by the way, refers to the suitable playback device with a crank; from today's point of view, very sustainable and environmentally friendly!

Tracklisting:

1 Louis Prima Orch. – What Will Santa Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin')
2 Bob Crosby's Bob Cats – Blow Blow Thou Winter Winds
3 The Ramblers – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
4 Louis Armstrong Orch. – I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
5 Count Basie Orch. – And The Angels Sing
6 Monette Moore – Peace Sister Peace
7 Glenn Miller Orch. – Jingle Bells (Chesterfield Broadcast)
8 Charlie Barnet Orch. – Ring Dem Bells
9 Paul Whiteman Orch. – Christmas Night In Harlem
10 Johnny Guarnieri With Slam Stewart – Santa's Secret
11 Chick Webb Orch. – There's Frost On The Moon
12 Louis Armstrong Orch. – Snow Ball
13 Putney Dandridge Orch. – Santa Claus Came In The Spring
14 Jan Savitt Orch. – And The Angels Sing
15 Jimmy Ray Orch. – I Told Santa To Bring Me You
16 Stew Pletcher Orch. – I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
17 Joe Turner And His Memphis Men – Freeze And Melt
18 Bob Chester And His Orch. – Winter Weather
19 Teddy Wilson Orch. – Sugar Plum
20 Alvino Rey Orch. – Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
21 Ray McKinley Orch. – Little Jack Frost Gets Lost
22 John Kirby Orch. – Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
23 Vincent Lopez Orch. – (You're Just) As Cute As Christmas
24 Stuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys– Robins And Roses
25 Ella Logan– Jingle (Bingle) Bells
26 Don Redman Orch. – Auld Lang Syne
27 Joel Cowan And Thornel Swartz – Bells Of Auld Lang Syne