A few days after we brought you the playlist for the Disneyland's Main Street USA Christmas music loop, A CD arrived in the Tabloid Baby mailbox containing Lewis Bailey's latest Christmas mixtape. The world-renowned videographer, photojournalist and homebricker from Bailey Mountain, Georgia, is also Tabloid Baby's country music expert, so we were more than a bit surprised to find barely a country song among the lot-- unless you count Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree by Bailey cousin Brenda Mae Tarpley-- but settled in for a long car ride as we were transported back to the days we'd pick up the Christmas compilation albums at the Firestone Tire store.
The list of Lewis' Yuletide selections follows. Now find the songs!
Sleighride Leroy Anderson
Run Run Rudolph Chuck Berry
No Place Like Home for The Holidays Perry Como
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters & The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra
Christmas Island The Fontane Sisters
White Christmas Bing Crosby
Sleighride The Andrew Sisters
Jingle Bell Rock Bobby Helm
Santa Claus Is Back in Town Elvis Presley
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree Brenda Lee
Please Come Home for Christmas Charles Brown
Blue Christmas Elvis Presley
Let It Snow Vaughn Monroe
Merry Merry Christmas Baby Dodie Stevens
Here Comes Santa Claus Gene Autry
Merry Christmas Baby Charles Brown
I'll Be Home for Christmas Elvis Presley
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Gene Autry
The Christmas Song Nat "King" Cole
Santa Baby Eartha Kitt
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Silent Night Bing Crosby
Silver Bells Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
White Christmas The Drifters
Winter Wonderland Louis Armstrong
Please Come Home for Christmas The Eagles
Holly Jolly Christmas Burl Ives
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Darlene Love
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Judy Garland
I can't believe that a Georgia boy with an M-14 under his bed got them all correct!!!
ReplyDeleteThis guy has the best taste in music this side of the Mason-Dixon line! Pure genius!
ReplyDeleteBest mix I have seen. Where can I find the CD?
ReplyDeleteYou are wrong about Leroy Anderson--He had nothing to do with the song.
ReplyDeleteSleigh Ride
ReplyDelete1948
The Christmas classic was composed during a July heat wave while Anderson lived in Woodbury, Connecticut. Words were added by Mitchell Parish in 1950, who also added words to six other Anderson works after they became popular.