クリスマス・ソング(38)

2016/12/22
最近では “クリぼっち” なんて言葉まで生まれ、まるで1人でいることは悪いことだと言わんばかりの世相である。
正直「ほっとけよ」と思うものの、世間の目が気になるのも、これまた事実。そこで、おひとりさまだという人に提案がある。クリスマスは奈良に行くというのはどうだろう? きっとクリスマスの”ク”の字も感じることなく、心穏やかに12月24・25日を過ごせるハズだ。理由について以下に挙げてみた!

<【コラム】心穏やかにクリスマスを過ごしたい「クリぼっち」は奈良に行くべき3つの理由 | ロケットニュース24 より一部引用>
https://rocketnews24.com/2016/12/22/839730/

赤道直下や南半球のクリスマスは真夏だし、キリスト教国ではイヴや当日は家族とともに神へ感謝と祈りを捧げる日。
騒いだり、カップルとHするなんてのは勘違いの日本人だけだよ(笑)

 

Perry Como -(There’s No Place Like)Home for the Holidays(1959 version)
2度目の引用。

Perry Como With Mitch Ayres And His Orchestra -(There’s No Place Like)Home for the Holidays(1954/12 his original version)
orchestra and chorus conducted by Mitchell Ayres
2度目の引用。

Here is Perry’s original feel-good 1954 Christmas hit. In 1959, RCA Victor had him record a newly-arranged “replacement” stereo version that dropped the brassy big band open in favor of a more low-key intro. For decades, that was the only one that RCA would issue on its various holiday music compilations.

 

Billy Fury – My Christmas Prayer(UK:1959/11/10)

Sam Cooke – The Bells Of Saint Mary’s(1957)

The Drifters – The Bells Of St. Mary’s(1954/11)

Rosemary Clooney with Percy Faith & his Orchestra and The Mellomen – White Christmas(1954/11/01)

Lovely Percy Faith arrangement of the Irving Berlin evergreen, which Rosemary also performed on-screen with Bing Crosby and the cast of the hit 1954 film “White Christmas.”

Bing Crosby – The Bells Of St. Mary’s(1945)
orchestra conducted by John Scott Trotter

recorded in Los Angeles September 10, 1945
Billboard Pop Chart Peak: 13 (radio airplay)
This popular song of 1917 provided the title for Bing’s 1945 film in which he reprised his Oscar-winning “Going My Way” role as Father O’Malley and co-starred with Ingrid Bergman.

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Bing Sings “The Bells of St. Mary’s”(1945)

Bing Crosby and a group of nuns sing “The Bells of St. Mary’s” in the 1945 movie of the same name.

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The Bells of St Mary’s

The greatest (and simplest) Christmas play of all time … and they didn’t even need a script! Really funny and cute.

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“The Bells Of St Mary’s”(米1945/12/06公開)セントメリーの鐘 Trailer
Reissue trailer

The McFarland Twins and Their Orchestra – The Bells Of St. Mary’s(1940)
Bert Ennis and Glee Club, recorded in NYC July 10, 1940
6月の録音なのでクリスマス・ソングではない?

Billed as “sweet and swing time,” the band was conducted by alto sax player George C. McFarland with brother Arthur in the tenor sax chair. This track came from the first of several sessions they cut for OKeh in 1940-41. The McFarland Twins band also did a single session with Bluebird in January 1942 that featured young Don Cornell on vocal (see “Hey Zeke” post).

 

Vera Lynn With Mike Sammes Singers – The Bells Of St. Mary’s
from the album “Favourite Sacred Songs”(1972)
(2016 Remaster)

Vera Lynn – The Bells Of St. Mary’s(1938)

 

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Old Friends: A Tribute to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Macy’s
2016/11/01

いろんなクリスマスがあったねぇ…… また会えるといいね。

 

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シングル “The Girl From Chandler” のB面。
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  ※(追記:この動画は削除されました

 

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