02 A Music Box Christmas
This is kind of cool - 18 recordings of the Ipod of the 19th century, the music box. These are not your tinny jewelry box music boxes, either - some of these are the hi-fi units of their day, offering some remarkably-unexpected bass response. These are recordings of music boxes from the collection of New York antique-shop owner Rita Ford (sadly, it appears that the retail shop has closed, but they still have an online presence). Ms. Ford passed away in 1993.
A Music Box Christmas
- Silent Night Holy Night
- Hark The Herald Angels Sing
- Zu Bethlehem Geborend
- Monastery Bells
- O Tannenbaum
- O Sanctissima
- Spin Spin
- O Holy Night
- Ave Maria
- Adeste Fidelis
- Still Still Holy Melody
- Jesus Lover Of My Soul
- The First Noel
- Ihr Kinderlein Kommet
- The Holy City
- Lobe Den Herren
- Jingle Bells
- Silent Night Holy Night
EDIT: apparently this has recently been issued on CD. You can get it at any fine online retailer, I'm sure, but check your local record shop first (while you still have one).
Labels: christmas records
posted by senormedia at 9:51 AM
1 Comments:
This is definitely on CD! lol My father loved this album. So I bought him a couple Xmas music boxes over the years. I picked up a weird CD early on for Xmas back in 1985. It has handbells and other instruments from music boxes, handbells, barrel organs, street pianos, church bells, Brass Bands - pretty much a very Victorian English collection. It's called Enchanted Carols.
I have as well (from my father's collection) a whole album of handbells and another of all harp Xmas. lol
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