Various - Christmas Through The Years

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Catalog Numbers

• 2-856-0
• RD8-5952, RD8-143-1/1
• 2-856
• RDCD 1511-5
• RD4-143
• 4-856-0
• 0350707
• SB-19, QT-15398
• DL 734596
• GXTY-A-169, BR-169-A
• 094636971827, 094636971926
• RDD-143/CDI
• RDA-143/A

Labels

• Reader's Digest
• Silver Bells Music, CBS
• MCA Special Markets
• EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets, Guideposts
• RCA Readers Digest

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• kuunnella verkossa
• lyssna på nätet
• online anhören
• ascolta in linea
• écouter en ligne
• lytte på nettet
• ouvir online
• escuchar en línea
• online luisteren

Formats

• 5 × Vinyl
• Compilation
• LP Box Set
• 2 × 8-Track Cartridge
• LP
• 5 × CD
• 2 × Cassette
• 3 × CD
• Cassette
• Album
• Stereo
• Vinyl
• 6 × Vinyl
• Compilation Box Set
• CD
• Stereo Box Set

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Notes

• 2nd tape was added
• Pictures of compilation and label. This release was copied from US version Label #RD4-143.
• Included is a full size booklet with song info.
• Release includes a 32 page booklet regarding each song & the artist.
• A Product of MCA Special Markets, A Division of MCA, Inc.
• Artist Courtesy of KAPP Records (A3, B1)
• All other artists courtesy of Decca and Coral
• Logo of First Financial Marketing Group on back label, pressed for this company.
• Box: GXTY-A-169
• Booklet: BR-169-A

Barcodes

• Other (Catalog number, record 1): 2-856-1/R1RS-5531
• Other (Catalog number, record 2): 2-856-2/R1RS-5533
• Other (Catalog number, record 3): 2-856-3/R1RS-5535
• Other (Catalog number, record 4): 2-856-4/R1RS-5537
• Other (Catalog number, record 5): 2-856-5/R1RS-5540
• Other (Catalog number, record 1): RD4-143-1/R1RS-5532
• Other (Catalog number, record 2): RD4-143-2/R1RS-5534
• Other (Catalog number, record 3): RD4-143-3/R1RS-5536
• Other (Catalog number, record 4): RD4-143-4/R1RS-5538
• Other (Catalog number, record 5): RD4-143-5/R1RS-5540
• Barcode: 8984100398
• Matrix / Runout (side A label): 7-11850
• Matrix / Runout (side B label): 7-11851◆
• Matrix / Runout (A): 7 11859 T
• Matrix / Runout (B): 7 11851 G
• Matrix / Runout ((var. 1) side A runout stamped): 7 11850 4 2
• Matrix / Runout ((var. 1) side B runout stamped): 7 11851 3 2
• Other (Disc 1 Category): RDS 10341
• Other (Disc 2 Category): RDS 10342
• Other (Disc 3 Category): RDS 10343
• Other (Disc 4 Category): RDS 10344
• Other (Disc 5 Category): RDS 10345
• Other (Disc 6 Category): RDS 10346

Comments

wardenway

I appreciate all the kind comments. This was the first box set I ever programmed and assembled for Reader's Digest Music and it wound up bring their biggest seller ever -- more than eleven million copies! That makes it one of then best selling box sets of any kind ever released by any label! My boss at the time insisted that Christmas music didn't sell -- simply because SHE didn't like it. As a longtime radio programmer,. my whole idea was to finally put together a collection of as many original Yuletide hit recordings as possible -- instead of what I called "the right songs by the wrong artists" -- which most box set consisted of. I pretty much succeeded, except that my boss refused to allocate enough funds to license several key hits I felt were essential: Nat "King" Cole's "Christmas Song," Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," etc. As a result I had to use second-choice versions of those songs. Years later, my box set "The All-Time Greatest Hits of Christmas" DID have all the right versions of the true Yuletide classics -- plus a whole lot MORE Christmas gems.

kilianwagnerblog

How can I download this? I can't find it on Apple music and it's my FAVORITE song on this collection. My dad has the cassettes but they are on their way out

alabamavsclemson2017

Thank you!

rochnyguy

I believe the vocals are by Merv Griffin and the Martin Men. Enjoyable!

alsillonycine

Thanks, Frostywarmth, for the nice comments.  I created, programmed and produced the "Christmas Through the Years" collection -- which went on to sell more than 11 million copies as the best-selling box set ever released b Reader's Digest Music.  It didn't come out quite the way I intended -- as I wanted to combine rarities like this version of "The Merry Christmas Polka" (a song also recorded quite well by Dinah Shore) with every million-selling Yuletide hit ever released.   The problem was my boss, so  convinced that Christmas music did not sell (!), would only allow me to license in tracks which did not required a guarantee of over 3,000 copies sold.  That meant -- to my great disappointment -- that, as examples, I couldn't include Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" or Nat "King" Cole's "The Christmas Song" and instead had to put in the second-best selling versions of some songs like that.   Nevertheless, my boss was stunned when "Christmas Through The Years" sold over 7,000 copies in its first week out and, as noted, went on to sell more than 11 million copies.   (My multi-platinum award for it hangs over my desk.)  While all the releases of Reader's Digest Music are now out of print, it's worth it for you to seek out such related sets as "Home For The Holidays" -- and also the Guideposts CD box set "The All-Time Greatest Hits of Christmas."

hkr11kv

I still have this 3 CD set but now I can listen to it on YouTube Red....thanks!

taraconnor777

Thank you SO much for posting these. I lost this cassette, and am just sick. It's my absolutely favorite Christmas album! I'm downloading the whole thing! You've saved my Christmas. :)

preacher35

come on and dance the merry christmas polka
with everybody joining in the fun
roll out the barrels that cheer you
and shout til they hear you
a merry christmas everyone!
(music)
come on and dance the merry christmas polka
another joyous season has begun
roll out the yule tide barrels
and sing out the carols
a merry christmas everyone
MERRY CHRISTMAS
a merry christmas everyone
(sorry, had to do it that way cause they limit characters in each post...)

manojmanu233

and deck the halls with holly
so lets have a jolly holiday
come on and dance the merry christmas polka
another joyous season has begun
roll out the yule tide barrels
and sing out the carols
a merry christmas everyone
come on and dance the merry christmas polka
let every lady step with her beau
around the tree to the ceiling
with lots of time for stealing
those kisses beneath the mistletoe

coreyameyer

they`re tuning up the fiddles now,
the fiddles now, the fiddles now
there`s wine to warm the middles now,
and set your head a-whirl
around and round the room we go,
the room we go the room we go
around and round the room we go,
so get yourself a girl
now every heart will start to tingle,
when sleigh bells jingle
on santas sleigh
together we will greet kris kringle
and another christmas day
come on and dance the merry christmas polka
let everyone be happy and gay
oh its the time to be jolly

thartaag

i really need the lyrics for this song but can't find it anywhere

emersonrochapro

Does anybody still send Christmas cards? I do and I make a photo collage of all the ones I've received and hang it in the dining room every Christmas.

My parents played this album on cassette every Christmas in the 80's and my children will grow up with it too.

fawzyhilal

This is the best christmas cd collection, ever. I'm on my second one. My kids grew up with all these songs.

leehmenezes22

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

eolhclz

There are HICCUPs here!
After Hark the Herald, about 20:27, seemingly most of Hark repeats.
About 22:11, mysteriously The Holly & The Ivy repeats.
About 24:19, only part of We Three Kings plays.
About 25:41, the remaining tunes play as listed; but, Twelve Days ends abruptly about 30:00.

sallu89

Beautiful singing

eawebdesigner

Singing angels

bombomblog

Cwitsmas

lilianthen

I appreciate all the kind comments. This was the first box set I ever programmed and assembled for Reader's Digest Music and it wound up bring their biggest seller ever -- more than eleven million copies! That makes it one of then best selling box sets of any kind ever released by any label! My boss at the time insisted that Christmas music didn't sell -- simply because SHE didn't like it. As a longtime radio programmer,. my whole idea was to finally put together a collection of as many original Yuletide hit recordings as possible -- instead of what I called "the right songs by the wrong artists" -- which most box set consisted of. I pretty much succeeded, except that my boss refused to allocate enough funds to license several key hits I felt were essential: Nat "King" Cole's "Christmas Song," Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," etc. As a result I had to use second-choice versions of those songs. Years later, my box set "The All-Time Greatest Hits of Christmas" DID have all the right versions of the true Yuletide classics -- plus a whole lot MORE Christmas gems.

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