Harry Simeone Chorale - Little Drummer Boy and similar items

Catalog Number: MLP-1201 Condition Details: Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; scuffing and surface impressions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is generic white. Spine is mostly readable with mild-wear. Minor shelf-wear along top-edge, heavier across bottom-edge and corners. Developing split on center of bottom, top-edge partially unglued. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. Yellow label, Stereo Pressing. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Band 1 Sing We Now Of Christmas Angels We Have Heard On High Away In A Manger What Child Is This? Joy To The World Band 2 Go Tell It On The Mountain Band 3 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Good King Wenceslas We Three Kings Villancico Hark, The Herald Angels Sing Band 4 Bring A Torch, Isabella Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming Band 5 Deck The Halls Christian Men Rejoice Master's In The Hall O' Tannenbaum Band 1 O' Holy Night Band 2 The Little Drummer Boy Band 3 Coventry Carol Rise Up Shepherds God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen O' Little Town Of Bethlehem O' Come Little Children Band 4 Ding Dong While Shepherds Watched Their Flock By Night The First Noel The Friendly Beasts Band 5 Silent Night Adeste Fideles A Christmas Greeting About The Record: When the Twentieth-Century Fox Records contracted Harry Simeone to make a Christmas album in 1958, he assembled a group he called "The Harry Simeone Chorale" and searched for recording material. After being introduced to an obscure song by producer and credited song co-author Henry Onorati, titled Carol of the Drum (originally composed by Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941 and arranged to present form by Jack Halloran), Simeone changed the title to The Little Drummer Boy and recorded it under that title for his album Sing We Now of Christmas. He received joint authorship-and-composition credit for the album, although he did not actually write or compose the song. The single The Little Drummer Boy quickly became extremely popular and scored on the U.S. music charts from 1958 to 1962.