Royalite Santa holding plastic tree

Here is a picture of Royalite (circa 1950's) Santa holding a plastic tree in his left hand. My grandparent had both Santa and a Snowman each holding a plastic tree. There are variations on these and some have bubble lights instead of a tree, or they have a bottle brush tree instead or they don't have anything in their hand.

Hood Milk Company Candy Filled Sleigh

This candy filled sleigh has been in my family since about 1966 or 1967. Our next door neighbor worked for Hood Milk and he gave us this sleigh for Christmas. I wish my camera took better quality pictures as this is a little blurry. There is about a second delay from when I press the button to when it actually takes the picture so if I move slightly, it blurs the image.

Vintage Christmas Decorations I have collected

Being I collect different Christmas decorations, I thought I'd post some pictures of Lights and Decorations I have collected.

These NOEL Candles I happened to find a couple years ago just driving around the neighborhood. Someone had put them out for the trash collector and I couldn't resist picking them up. They were very dirty when I found them, but a little Windex and they came clean. I had the cords checked with a multimeter and there weren't any shorts and I didn't even have to replace the bulbs. Items like this go for big bucks on eBay. The irony of finding these, is a year and a half later, I ended up moving to the same street I found these on. They are about 33 inches tall. These candles were manufactured by Union Products and I believe they were made around 1976 but they are packed away right now so I can't check the date that is stamped on them.

Vintage Christmas Lights

A few years ago I was searching for some replacement Christmas lights I came across these websites that show vintage Christmas lights and thought they might be of interest to you
Bill's Antique Christmas Lights
The Yule Lights Collection

Getting closer and closer to Christmas

Well, it's getting closer and closer to Christmas 2010 and even closer to Christmas in July. I wish the stores would decorate and put out Christmas decorations like they did years ago. I remember working for Zayers Department Store in the 1980's and they would decorate the seasonal section for Christmas in July and sell Christmas trees, decorations, etc. but now, I guess the only place for Christmas in July is QVC.

I think a few Cable Network TV stations will show some Christmas movies on July 25th too.

Just want to let everyone know I am still here

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am still here. I have been having some new health problems and just recently found that I have Emphysema.

Not sure how I got it as I really wasn't a smoker. I know there could be several causes, but I would guess that it is from second-hand smoke as up until a couple years ago, we used to go camping and our friends were heavy smokers and then we also had friends from out of state come to visit us from time to time and they were heavy smokers.

The strange part about this, is my two sisters and my brother are smokers and they are fine.

I wasn't having any problems breathing, but on a routine chest X-Ray, it showed Emphysema and about a year ago it wasn't there.

I hope to be doing something a little different with my blog in the near future.

Fourth Listing

Third Listing

Second listing

Trying something new

RIP Art Linkletter

Though this isn't Christmas/Music related I just wanted to let people know.

TV Host Art Linkletter passes away at 97

Legendary Singer Lena Horne Passes Away

The Legendary Singer Lena Horne Passed away at the age of 92
CNN Online Article

Not sure what I am going to do with my blogs

Hello everyone,

I received another DMCA complaint notice on April 21, 2009 from Google but not an email from them telling me the specific post. I looked through the complaint and it is exactly the same one I received earlier this month and that post is not even on my blog anymore.

So, I don't know what I am going to be doing with my blogs.

I don't know if I will just keep it up for informational purposes and any new post I may do only show artwork/track listings.

I don't know why there would be a second complaint filed being the post was deleted on April 5, 2009 and even if I type the link for the post it comes up that is can't be found.

Being I received a second complaint, I'm worried that Google will delete my blogs and cancel my account. So if all of a sudden you try to visit my blogs and they aren't here it could be because Google deleted them.

All files have been deleted from RS and MU

Sorry folks but all files have been deleted from RS and MU. I will not be re uploading and probably not going to do any new posts of my albums.

I keep getting files deleted because of someone reporting them as being illegal. I will probably be deleting both my blogs as I'm figuring that it might be copyright infringement even posting the artwork and track listings.

There are other blogs out there so hopefully you can find what your looking for. I don't know why this is happening as there are blogs out there that post current CD releases and basically everything I have posted has been long out of print and usually difficult to find and not released on CD.

I will be going through all my posts and removing the download links as they won't work anyways.

I apologize as I know there are several of you out there who truly appreciate the music I posted and not just interested in getting "free" music.

Attention any claim to Copyright holders

Attention any Claim to Copyright holders!!!

If anything I have posted in my blog is in violation of DMCA, could you please let me know what specifically is in violation? Everything I have posted has been long out of print and no longer available and most is prior to 1972. What I post isn't available on CD.

There are other blogs out there that are posting current releases of CD's and that seems to be OK.

I received an email from Google stating that one of my posts was in violation of DMCA and they referred me to Chillingeffects.org and had me enter the url for the post and nothing came up. It's supposed to show me the complaint and what the violation is.

Thank you.

Is anyone having trouble seeing artwork in my older posts?

I just went through quite a few of my older posts and the artwork isn't showing up. Sometimes there is a large blank square or a small square where the image is supposed to be, but on my end I can't see any image. I don't know if it is something with my browsers' Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox or if it is something with Google.

If anyone else is having trouble seeing images, could you please let me know? Thanks.

If worse comes to worse, even though the artwork is in the compressed files, I may have to go do a Flickr account and upload them there and put links to them in my posts.

The Sweet Sounds Of Christmas

This was one of my first posts and inadvertently I deleted it.
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This is one of my Thrift Store finds yesterday. I scanned the jacket with the shrink wrap still sealed before I opened the jacket to play the album and put it on my computer.
Sweet Sounds Of Christmas Columbia Records C 10875 (1972)

The Caroleers "Traditional Christmas Carols"

The Caroleers "Traditional Christmas Carols" 1959
Audio Lab AL 1517

O Little Town Of Bethlehem has different tune as does It Came Upon A Midnight Clear but the verses are correct.

I tried to eliminate background noise as best as possible and eliminated as many clicks as possible without changing the sound of the music.


Side One
01 Silent Night
02 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
03 O Little Town Of Bethlehem
04 Noel
05 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
06 Rejoice
Side Two
01 Adeste Fideles
02 Away In A Manger
03 God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
04 Joy To The World
05 Good King Wenceslas
06 Was He Quiet Or Did He Cry
07 I Have A Desire

Merry Christmas - With Organ & Chimes

"Merry Christmas" - With Organ & Chimes
1958
This record was released in MONO but in my opinion, sounds terrific. Enjoy

Sorry I haven't been posting lately

Hello everyone. Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. It's hard finding something that hasn't been released on CD or that other blog's have posted.

There have been a few albums I've been working on, but there are skips in them and I don't want to post something like that so I am looking for better copies for them.

Please bear with me. Thanks