Happy Christmas Baby

Patti Page really swings baby....@ Christmas yeah

Woooow who would have thought Patti Page was so hip baby.. Well she was ....DIG that cover Dad... Patti was hot back in the day the red cover is maybe my fav xmas cover up there with the Three Suns DING Dong Dandy..

So folks on this Christmas eve eve share is A sampler of Patti Page Christmas from the late 50's and early 60's

songs include....

1. jingle bells
2. Christmas bells ( a real cool one)
3. white Christmas
4. Santa is coming to town
5. the Christmas song
   

click here for a cool Patti Page Christmas baby

A Christmas for Swingers only baby Frankie Dino Peg and bobbi swing DAD

Rock over Graceland pulls out all the stops for some rarer Frank Sinatra and pallies Peggy Lee Bobby Darin and Mr Dean Martin and the Golddiggers

CHECK IT - Marshmallow world is from an old tv show cool duet BTW Frank and Dean...

Christmas Blues an Early Dean Capital record is pure genius my fave dean Xmas song...

check out the little chat BTW Peggy LEE and Frank from his old Gold Radio show (mid 40s)

Frankie's white Christmas is a rare take with Nelson conducting...

Most of the Dean Martin songs are from an old radio show nice stuff...

Bobby Darin xmas gem just had to be added

what ya think pallies???? pour ya self a high octane Egg Nog and throw another log on the fire and relax

...Ill see ya at the Flamingo's grand opening with Bugsy on New years eve baby...

Click here for a swingers Christmas baby

buy it for next year

Dean Martin 1966 christmas Classic on Reprise

DEAN MARTINTHE DEAN MARTIN CHRISTMAS ALBUM(Reprise RS-6222)November/1966 Produced by Jimmy Bowen

DINO 2nd Christmas Lp from the magic year of 1966

Pure Holiday swingin stuff from Dean Martin -- Jimmy Bowen's at the helm of the record, working with arrangements by Ernie Freeman and Bill Justis

There's a bit less of the pep and bounce of some of Dean's hits for Reprise, but the album's still a great one -- and titles include the always-great "Marshmallow World", plus "Silver Bells", "Winter Wonderland", "Blue Christmas", "White Christmas", "Jingle Bells", and "The Things We Did Last Summer"

This Lp is sadly out of print...there are many Dean Cds comp but this is a share of the classic 1966 lp in the same running order,

(BTW if any one has a better scann of the lp cover and the back cover please send them to the Rock over greaceland offices

cheers Holly jolly christmas Baby

click here for some swingin dean XMAS baby

its a Lonely Country Christmas EVE baby

the Snow is falling and your walkin the lonely streets...up for offer is a quick little country mix featuring the Everly Brothers 'Christmas Eve will Kill you'..a real sad one...

also check out a rarely heard one by Jerry Lee Lewis.. and a gem by Mr George Jones...

Hope this is not to sad for ya...more up beat swingers coming soon.... YO YO Ho...but sad songs are the best baby.. cheers....also check out the cool ones by the late Buck Owens and his main man Dwight Yoakam

Click here for a cool 8 song Christmas Country MIX

Hey grand dad its the Glenn Millers singers and they Swing pops

Heya a week till the fat man comes with a ton of gifts better be good baby...look out...up for share is one I haven't seen on the other cool sites..its the Glenn Miller singers baby..these cats really swing...featuring tex Beneke and Ray Eberle and the modernaires...

so here's one for ya.... who has the best pure Big Band Swing Christmas LP ???

leave ideas in comments...

Swing easy dad check out this sleigh ride for one of the swing est Xmas songs ever

click here for Glenn Miller Singers

Even more Chet Baker Christmas Baby....

It was Chet's Christmas ....the rockovergraceland staff has poured Thur files, used record shops, dollar stores, trash bins at old Tower Records ( were gonna miss ya )and we found some more Chet Baker Christmas Songs

1. ALL STYLES Chet are here young Chet -middle 60's Chet and Autumn of his years Chet
   
   1. Christmas Song (60's) 2 Silent Night Pt.1. 3 The First Noel 4. We Three Kings 5. Hark, the Herald Angels Sing 6. Come All Ye Faithful 7 Joy to the World 8.It Came Upon A Midnight clear 9. Silent Night Pt.2 10.Winter Wonderland (50's)

Chick here for Chets Swingin Little Christmas


ps if any body know of other Chet Christmas let Rockovergraceland know baby

Chet Baker 's swingin little Christmas Single

YO Ho Ho

Up now are two somewhat rare Chet baker Christmas songs
1'winter wonderland' from the lat 50s pacific Jazz
2.the other from a more groovy Chet from his mid 60's LP Quietly there
Chet does the 'Christmas Song'...

there are some other Chet Chrismtas songs out there( Chet Baker - Silent Nights: A Christmas Jazz Album) if ya have em let me know I'd love to post them....

Click here for a 2 song single from Chet's Swingin little Christmas

Jimmy Smith Christmas cookin yo philly's own

Yo..Jimmy Smith was the man maybe the greatest Christmas lp cover ever baby... its a soul-jazz christmas Philly style baby...this lp is one cool cool dusty groove Pops...




On the cover of Jimmy Smith,s 1964 Christmas album, the organist is decked out in a Santa suit behind the wheel of a red sports car with a tree and presents in tow. The irreverent and fun photograph is a good primer to the contents inside, for this is no hackneyed rundown of a group of well-worn holiday favourites. Instead, Smith puts a soulful and exciting stamp on each track, along with the help of arrangers Billy Byers and Al Cohn.


Track listing: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Jingle Bells; We Three Kings (or Orient Are); The Christmas Song; White Christmas; Santa Claus is Comin' to Town; Silent Night; God Rest Ye Marry Gentlemen; Baby, It's Cold Outside; Greensleeves

Personnel: Jimmy Smith - organ; Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow, Danny Stiles, Joe Wilder - trumpets; Jimmy Cleveland, Chauncey Welsh - trombones; Paul Faulise, Tommy Mitchell - bass trombones; Earl Chapin, Don Corrado, Morris Secon, Jimmy Buffington - french horns; Kenny Burrell, Quentin Jackson, Wes Montgomery - guitars; Art Davis - bass; Grady Tate, Billy Hart - drums; George Devans, Ray Barretto - percussion; Margaret Ross - harp; Billy Byers, Al Cohn - arrangers










Click here for some Christmas Cookin

BUY JIMMY SMITH

sqaure cover though

its a nice day 4 a white christmas yeah

Happy Holidays (A Very Special Christmas Album) billy idol wooooow



maybe one of the strangest xmas lps ever Billy Idol brand new Christmas lp some cool cool stuff very hard to find I hear we at rockovergraceland offer ya a 4 song sampler if ya like go buy it it should be a classic 4 years to come up there with Nat frank and Johnny M,,,, songs include white Christmas (of course yo) run Rudie run, frosty the snowman,blue Christmas)....I am not make this up this is brilliant stuff...check it out....


BUY Idol Baby....






Click here to download a 4 song IDOL XMAS sampler








(ya xmas will never be the same baby..Billy's the new Nat king, JohnnyMathis and Frankie allrolled into one baby )


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ella swings lighty

Ella swings lighty with Rita....

its a Hillbilly Christmas baby

To Heck with old santa claus baby sang miss loretta lynn....this is one of the best comps over ...

its a Hillbilly Christmas baby ..wooow this cd is a gem and the swell folks at rhino let it go out of print so the rockovergraceland vaults have opened up for ya....so many cool songs where to begin

Hillbilly Holiday - Rhino Record's Hillbilly Holiday (1988, now sadly out-of-print) mines the rich vein of Christmas gold running though the golden age of country music - from the post-war 40s through the early 70's, when the smooth countrypolitan sound removed the "hillbilly" from country music. Subsequently, the outlaw country of Waylon and Willie began to seriously challenge Nashville's supremacy, but the dynamic had been irrevocably altered. The eighteen songs herein barely begin to tell the story (no Gene Autry, for instance), but they serve as an excellent introduction for neophytes and function as an adequate summary for casual fans. To my ears, fully sixteen of these songs qualify as absolutely essential, fine examples of the best these artists had to offer. The other two cuts (by hillbilly heroes Bill Monroe and Willie Nelson) are just fine - they're simply less-than-definitive performances of songs defined by other artists (Mac Wiseman and Roy Orbison, to be precise). The earliest cut on Hillbilly Holiday is Tex Ritter's "Christmas Carols By The Old Corral" (1945), characterized by the old-timey, western-movie feel typical of much country music of the day. Just a few years later, we witness the Davis Sisters (featuring Skeeter Davis) shoving the Nashville sound into the space age with "Christmas Boogie," and things rarely slow down thereafter. We barrel through the 50's and 60's like a runaway eighteen-wheeler carrying cargo by some of the the brightest lights in country music - Ernest Tubb, Faron Young, Hank Snow, Loretta Lynn. Not to be believed, however, is George Jones' goofy twistin' novelty, "My Mom And Santa Claus." As Nashville lost its grip on power and reality in the 70's, good country Christmas records became few and far between, indeed (see entries for Emmylou Harris and Dwight Yoakam). Hillbilly Holiday closes, then, in 1972 with Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, an outlaw band whose "Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas" bears all the hallmarks of a classic country weeper. It serves as a reminder of the glories of country Christmas past, and it gives hope that there may be a Hillbilly Holiday on the calendar someday once again.

1. Christmas Time's A-Comin' - Bill Monroe2. Christmas Carols By The Old Corral - Tex Ritter3. I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus - Brenda Lee4. I'll Be Walkin' The Floor This Christmas - Ernest Tubb & His Texas Troubadours5. Reindeer Boogie - Hank Snow6. Gonna Wrap My Heart In Ribbons - Hank Thompson7. Poor Folks Christmas - Bill Anderson8. Santa Looked Alot Like Daddy - Buck Owens9. Pretty Paper - Willie Nelson10. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - The Louvin Brothers11. My Mom And Santa Claus - George Jones12. One Of You (In Every Size) - Marty Robbins13. To Heck With Ole Santa Claus - Loretta Lynn14. Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas - Commander Cody15. I'm Gonna Tell Santa On You - Faron Young (CD only)16. They Shined Up Rudolph's Nose - Johnny Houston (CD only)17. Christmas Boogie - The Davis Sisters (CD only)18. Christmas Time's A-Comin' - Buck Owens (CD only)

click here to download this super cool OOP comp

the best little swingin Christmas mix ever

WOW…UP FOR OFFER IS ROCKOVERGRACELANDS 1ST MINI LP

Four super cool Jazzy rockin Christmas Gems..

1. Chuck Berry ‘Run Run Rudolph’
2. ..the cool cool Xmas Ballad ‘Merry Christmas Baby’ also by lord Berry
3. Then things get jazzy with Charlie Parker’s ‘White Christmas’
4. Next is what we at rock over Graceland THINK IS THE GREATEST .Xmas comedy bit ever…Eddie Lawrence's ‘ I want for Christmas….a jaguar’
   
   So.. baby click here to download 4 of the greatest Christmas songs ever…
   
   Holly jolly baby….merry merry
   
   
   

Its Jackie's Christmas baby we just help celebrate

Yo Yo Ho Ho Yo

Merry Christmas baby....rock over Graceland is starting its 1st ever Christmas Post with a pair of gems by Jackie Gleason the great ones EZ lounge classic that are sadly out of print come on capitol git with it and reissues these baby...

so throw a log on the fire....and pour ya self a little egg nog witha lil' kick and enjoy baby..

that's snow I SEE....

Merry Christmas and 1967 Tis the season...

from Dec of 1956 Jackies EZ gem
WWJD

what would Jackie do ?? share it baby...

With its soft-blanket strings and romantic bent, Gleason's orchestra was perfectly suited for Christmas music. His haunting arrangements make for some wonderful interpretations, especially the wistful baritone chorus of "White Christmas" and a dreamy reworking of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town." One of the warmest holiday albums of all time.
1 I'll Be Home for Christmas Gannon, Kent, Ram 2:27
2 Christmas in Paris 3:28
3 Jingle Bells Pierpont 3:44
4 White Christmas Berlin 3:33
5 Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Coots, Gillespie 2:34
6 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Blane, Martin 2:47
7 The Christmas Song Torme, Wells 3:11
8 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Berlin 3:29
9 Snowfall 2:56
10 By the Fireside Campbell, Connelly, Noble 2:40
11 Home (When Shadows Fall) Clarkson, VanSteeden 2:49
12 Happy Holiday Berlin 2:35
13 Winter Wonderland Bernard, Smith 2:53
14 The Story of a Starry Night

click here for Jackie's first christmas LP



and from 1967 ....... 'tis the season ...baby yo!!!

1 Christmas Moon Katz, Roberts 3:19
2 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Cahn, Styne 3:18
3 Blue Christmas Hayes, Johnson 4:05
4 Snowbound for Christmas Chorney, Schrager 3:19
5 Late in December Frisch, Neiburg 3:15
6 It's Christmas Time All over the World Martin 3:47
7 That's What I Want for Christmas Lawrence 3:11
8 December Bjornstad 3:24
9 I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Connors 3:06
10 Christmas Island Moraine 3:24
11 You're All I Want for Christmas Ellis, Moore 3:07

click here for Jackie 2nd out of print Christmas LP

sinatra and Martin living it up on christmas baby

its a marshmellow world indeed frank and Dean baby


one of my favs by dean -oooohhhh



Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Medley Christmas TV Show '67 THIS ONES A REAL GASSER....does any one have the whole program or the audio we at rockovergraceland would love to hear

"even more O Day baby..." cool heat for the Holidays baby

Heres the last one from Miss Anita O'day,,

Cool Heat ...its a gem baBY...ITS SO GOOD YA SHOULD DOWNLOAD IT TWICE

CLICK HERE TO KEEP SOME COOL HEAT THIS holiday season,,,,baby,,,

By its very gentleness and supple, lyricism, this is a unique Anita O'Day album. Her singing is no less ardent or swinging than it customarily is; but for the first time in several years, practically a whole program has be- given over to me of the most attractive but increasingly less known elements of Anita's work - her capacity to concentrate her motion, to underplay, and to wing softly.The most familiar image of Anita has been as one of the last of the irrepressibly hot jazz singers who scats with driving abandon and who can wing a tune with the dynamism of Roy Eldridge building a final chorus. In the past couple of years, there has been added the, show-biz Anita who as included several careful tailored novelties in her act; and who has devised a visual-aural effect in night clubs and jazz festivals that resembles a Harper's Bazaar girl who has been reading both Norman Mailer and vintage Dorothy Parker.Only traces of either of these images are contained in this album. Anita here, for one thing, is entirely musical with almost no concessions to Bobby Shortism. The ballads are handled with uncommon musical taste-most notably, I think, Joe and Aileen Albany's You're A Clown, which has a wryly attractive melodic line. The scat singing re-emphasizes the fact that Anita is me of the few singers of either sex who is a master of 'hat tricky device without making it sound as if seat singing were simply a matter of juggling skill. Her scat work here is in thorough musical contex---for example, the airy verve of her treatment of Johnny Mandel's Hershey Bar, first made relatively renowned years ago by Stan Getz. The lyricism that relaxes her work in this album is not without occasional ii-y, as in Mack the Knife and My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Furthermore, no matter what the material and mood, Anita's celebrated beat is vividly alive in all the performances here,. I was especially beguiled by the easy in triptych swinging she accomplishes in It Had To Be You with its slow, romantic opening; medium, finger-snapping middle; and Indianapolis Speedway ending.The choice of tunes is refreshingly surprising. In addition to Hershey Bar, You're A Clown and the, underdone My Heart Belongs to Daddy, there is an aptly light-hearted treatment of the ingenuous Orphan Annie, (I hope it someday occurs to a philanthropist if not a foundation to commission Lenny Bruce- to write a tune about Daddy Warbucks). Hooray for Hollywood has also become a rarity in recent years, except for Doris Day, It comes from the 1937 Hollywood Hotel with the. preprivate eye Dick Powell, Rosemary and Lola Lane (but ala~, no Priscilla), Hugh Herbert, and even Louella Parsons, the George Crater of Hollywood columnists.Jimmy Giuffre's arrangements are effective by their unobtrusiveness. He has provided Anita with support that is neither overpowering nor anemic. He uses his instrumental resources judiciously to underline a phrase or simply to punctuate, What is, of course, most important is that the accompaniment does not get in her way and instead gives her a base that is dependable but also flexible.I have no way of knowing whether this album-recorded in Hollywood in April, 1959-portends a general change of style in Anita's singing. In any case, however, it is a delightful addition to, the O'Day discography and will, I expect, bear up under many playings. Miss O'Day is cooking, as they say in the less esoteric trade journals, with less of a bravura display of flame here; but the temperature is just as high, and the results, I think, add up to me of the best recordings she has ever made.-NAT HENTOFF