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Uncle Eddy’s Mixtapes Vol. 13: Merrry Christmas from Uncle Eddy
There is quite the variety of opinions and feelings on Christmas/Holiday music. Some people love it all year round while others refuse to listen until December…some just hate it all together. There are those who love the traditional carols and hate the modern songs and there are those who prefer the “classics” they grew up with. I’m definitely in that latter group.
Growing up, my parents had a handful of Christmas records… including a couple I didn’t associate specifically with the Holiday and would listen to throughout the year. In the 90s some of my favorite Christian rock artists put out some more modern takes on the carols and classics of the… and I enjoyed some of them. But this mixtape focuses on the classics… those I grew up with and some I’ve discovered in more recent years. Everything I’ve included comes from my vinyl collection… in fact you can hear the pops and crackle of those old scratched records…and most of it predates the 80s (with a couple exceptions…but one of them is a retro sounding cover of a classic from the 60s and the other was written and performed to intentionally sound like oldies rock and roll).
Things start off with an epic Hammond Organ romp by jazz organist Jimmy Smith. In recent years, I’ve come to really appreciate jazz for Christmas… although I don’t really listen to it at any other time. I think it all started when I purchased the soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas (sadly missing from my vinyl collection and so not represented here in this mixtape) on CD several years back. There was just something about Vince Guaraldi’s piano tinkling and the way the trio took on those holiday tunes that made me want to pursue more of that kind of jazzy seasonal bliss. So over a few years, I ebayed some Christmas Jazz compilations as well as albums by artists like Smith and the Ramsey Lewis Trio.
Something else I only listen to at Christmas time, is the classic crooners/big band singers. It seems to me that the one thing their voices and styles are best suited for, is belting out the traditional hymns and especially their suave treatment of the 20th Century holiday songs that have become standards over the years. But I did try to stay away from the songs we most typica
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By The Farsighted NetworkThere is quite the variety of opinions and feelings on Christmas/Holiday music. Some people love it all year round while others refuse to listen until December…some just hate it all together. There are those who love the traditional carols and hate the modern songs and there are those who prefer the “classics” they grew up with. I’m definitely in that latter group.
Growing up, my parents had a handful of Christmas records… including a couple I didn’t associate specifically with the Holiday and would listen to throughout the year. In the 90s some of my favorite Christian rock artists put out some more modern takes on the carols and classics of the… and I enjoyed some of them. But this mixtape focuses on the classics… those I grew up with and some I’ve discovered in more recent years. Everything I’ve included comes from my vinyl collection… in fact you can hear the pops and crackle of those old scratched records…and most of it predates the 80s (with a couple exceptions…but one of them is a retro sounding cover of a classic from the 60s and the other was written and performed to intentionally sound like oldies rock and roll).
Things start off with an epic Hammond Organ romp by jazz organist Jimmy Smith. In recent years, I’ve come to really appreciate jazz for Christmas… although I don’t really listen to it at any other time. I think it all started when I purchased the soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas (sadly missing from my vinyl collection and so not represented here in this mixtape) on CD several years back. There was just something about Vince Guaraldi’s piano tinkling and the way the trio took on those holiday tunes that made me want to pursue more of that kind of jazzy seasonal bliss. So over a few years, I ebayed some Christmas Jazz compilations as well as albums by artists like Smith and the Ramsey Lewis Trio.
Something else I only listen to at Christmas time, is the classic crooners/big band singers. It seems to me that the one thing their voices and styles are best suited for, is belting out the traditional hymns and especially their suave treatment of the 20th Century holiday songs that have become standards over the years. But I did try to stay away from the songs we most typica