Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Brenda Lee Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Certainly a standard part of xmass audiage!
So who played that great Tenor sax solo?
King Curtis maybe?
I bet it was Carol Kaye on bass.
I had a truely dissacociative moment,
with my morning coffee this AM,
Listening to Nat King Cole, Bing, Brenda, Sinatra, Kate Smith, Peryy Como, Andrews Sisters
and a host of other classic Xmass music,
while sitting, with the paper and coffee,
on the front porch,
sweating looking at coconut palm trees and ferns.
White Christmas, Let It Snow, Christmas Song, When Christmas comes to Town, Winter Wonderland, God rest Ye Merry gentlemen, I'll Be Home for Xmas, Sant Claus is Coming, Tannenbaum, Here Comes Santa etc, etc, etc.
It was a REALY weird moment. No doubt to be repeated for the rest of the week.
Chach LOVES this iTunes cd.
Certainly a standard part of xmass audiage!
So who played that great Tenor sax solo?
King Curtis maybe?
I bet it was Carol Kaye on bass.
I had a truely dissacociative moment,
with my morning coffee this AM,
Listening to Nat King Cole, Bing, Brenda, Sinatra, Kate Smith, Peryy Como, Andrews Sisters
and a host of other classic Xmass music,
while sitting, with the paper and coffee,
on the front porch,
sweating looking at coconut palm trees and ferns.
White Christmas, Let It Snow, Christmas Song, When Christmas comes to Town, Winter Wonderland, God rest Ye Merry gentlemen, I'll Be Home for Xmas, Sant Claus is Coming, Tannenbaum, Here Comes Santa etc, etc, etc.
It was a REALY weird moment. No doubt to be repeated for the rest of the week.
Chach LOVES this iTunes cd.
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She was 13 years old when she cut that tune in Nashville!
Yes, it was cut with Owen Bradley, but I'm not sure who played on the session....I am curious also....I bet Hank Garland played guitar on it. One of my favorite tunes at Christmas time also!
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Yes, it was cut with Owen Bradley, but I'm not sure who played on the session....I am curious also....I bet Hank Garland played guitar on it. One of my favorite tunes at Christmas time also!
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Here is credits for Brenda's Rockin' Around Tthe Christmas Tree
Session:
Oct 19/1958, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville,, Produced by Owen Bradley
Hank Garland, Grady Martin - guitar
Harold Bradley - bass guitar
Bob Moore - bass
Douglas Kirkham - drums
Floyd Cramer - piano
Boots Randolph - sax
Vocals:
The Jordanaires (Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews, Gordon Stoker, Raymond Walker)
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Session:
Oct 19/1958, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville,, Produced by Owen Bradley
Hank Garland, Grady Martin - guitar
Harold Bradley - bass guitar
Bob Moore - bass
Douglas Kirkham - drums
Floyd Cramer - piano
Boots Randolph - sax
Vocals:
The Jordanaires (Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews, Gordon Stoker, Raymond Walker)
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Thanks Per.
Guess it wasn't Carol Kaye,
but it sure had her sound.
I think of Boots more as an alto player,
but this tenor solo was great.
It has been juxtapositioned between,
Sinatra, Bing, Andrews Sisters and Nat King Cole on this cd.
So her singing isn't quite as 'smooth'.
But it is nice and fits there.
It's clear Mr. Bradley could produce in any direction
he could hear and example of.
Guess it wasn't Carol Kaye,
but it sure had her sound.
I think of Boots more as an alto player,
but this tenor solo was great.
It has been juxtapositioned between,
Sinatra, Bing, Andrews Sisters and Nat King Cole on this cd.
So her singing isn't quite as 'smooth'.
But it is nice and fits there.
It's clear Mr. Bradley could produce in any direction
he could hear and example of.
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It's not steel, but here's my solo ukulele version of 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree'.
Buon Natale
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Solo Uke!
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Buon Natale
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Solo Uke!
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Randy, yeah, Buddy Harman worked with Brenda on her Christmas album "Merry Christmas From Brenda Lee" (Decca DL-74583) on sessions June 12/1964, June 13/1964 and June 23/1964, but on the song the story's about is drummer Doug Kirkham.
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Here is the song:
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee, 1958)
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Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee, 1958)
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Buddy must know if he played on it,
better than the writers looking through old album jackets....
It would be a song hard to forget about!
I played with a guy who bought Boots's Alto.
He was offered it for $900,
but gushed and blabbered and talked it UP
so much, that he finally paid $3,200... kid was a putz.
Maybe he sold it because he was playing more tenor.
better than the writers looking through old album jackets....
It would be a song hard to forget about!
I played with a guy who bought Boots's Alto.
He was offered it for $900,
but gushed and blabbered and talked it UP
so much, that he finally paid $3,200... kid was a putz.
Maybe he sold it because he was playing more tenor.
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Okay Randy, I acknowledge a mistake. Going to correct my specifications.
Say hello to Mr Buddy, he is the greatests !
Merry Christmas y'all !!!
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Say hello to Mr Buddy, he is the greatests !
Merry Christmas y'all !!!
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What's not to like about this song?
I just love it.
It always brings me back to a much sweeter and gentler world, when I was younger, naiver, stupider, and filled with hope and trust.
A lot now sorely missing, today, in my life.
SKMA<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by CHIP FOSSA on 22 December 2006 at 07:11 PM.]</p></FONT>
I just love it.
It always brings me back to a much sweeter and gentler world, when I was younger, naiver, stupider, and filled with hope and trust.
A lot now sorely missing, today, in my life.
SKMA<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by CHIP FOSSA on 22 December 2006 at 07:11 PM.]</p></FONT>
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