Christmas Eve Favorites

Hello everybody and special thanks to my wife for getting me the perfect turntable for Christmas. So here we have Christmas Eve Favorites from The Longines Symphonette Society. LSS released a lot of music, often times without much info, and I don't see much being offered for share. I am sharing a good one here. Montovani is credited as the musical director and we can assume that means that he is conducting the orchestra, maybe even his own orchestra? This is a beautiful record and I am particularly interested in who the singers might be. When I heard the second track, Mister Santa, I thought immediately of the Mike Sammes Singers. I know at least one of you out there is wondering, why I think so.

So here goes... the Mike Sammes Chorus, sang background vocals in the U.K. in the 60s. They also recorded with Montovani in the States, including the album for Kismet, and a set of Christmas songs in 1963. The Christmas release was called Christmas Greetings From Montovani And His Orchestra, it was re-released in 1979. Kismet was released in 64. None of the songs from the 63 release, (aside form DTH), appear on the one I am sharing. It makes sense that either they recorded the others at the time or got together at a later date specifically for LSS. So here we may have a record that is not credited to Mike Sammes Singers but sure sounds like them to me. This is certainly not Mike Sammes Singers music, so it is difficult to compare, but if you have heard them over at FaLaLaLaLa let me know what you think of my hypothesis.

Christmas Eve Favorites

Comments

[Danatello]

I have posted a new link for this download as a zip. Happy Holidays everyone!

[Wendi]

I looked for these mp3s for YEARS and even posted a question or two looking for it on falalalala last year... but no one could tell me if they'd heard it or where I could find it. So I finally found the album on ebay just by seeing the cover (cuz I couldn't remember the name of the album!) and I bought a turntable in the fall of 2007 and ripped it to CD myself! I'm stoked that you're sharing it with other people though, even though I missed your download by about 3 months!

[Bobio]

How does a person on a Mac open an ICE file?

[PDMan]

I can't figure how to download this. I go to the savefile page, but it goes off to a spam signup page before I have time to click the download link.

[zepp]

Hey No -- ICEOWS sounds great -- It's just that I had never run into it before ..

No need to change for us ..

maybe a note on the site would help us un-initiated..

Thanks for the download

[Danatello]

Here is the link to iceows:
http://www.iceows.com/
I will use zip for sharing in the future

danatello :O)

[Dave]

Ditto here. How does one open an .ice file?
Dave

[Tucker]

I don't understand an *.ice file either ...
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What do I do with it once I download it?

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How do I open it?

Thanks

tucker

[zepp]

*.ICE FILE?? What's that??

[The King of Jingaling]

Wow, what a great find! There are tons of Longines records out there and a lot of them are rereleases of the same material. Several of these songs I have from other LPs. But a bunch are new--Mr. Santa in particular.

There's a good possibility that these are the Mike Sammes Singers. They often went uncredited. Though I would find that unusual since they have been credited as working with Mantovani before.