Firestone Christmas Album
By Rozie37
@Rozie37 (15499)
Turkmenistan
August 14, 2007 10:32pm CST
One of my friends is trying to find an album that her mother played every Christmas. She says that it was during the sixties. The only words that she remembers on the album is Firestone.
She said that there were about eight people(men and women) on the cover. She says something about a snap shop picture. I helped her search for hours last night. We found some albums with red bows on the front by firestone, but she said that these are not it.
They also mentioned Julie Andrews as a singer, but my friend says that Julie Andrews was no where on the album. I realize that this is a stab in the dark and most people will not know what in the world I am speaking of, but she really wants to hear this album again real bad, so I am trying to help her locate it. Any information that you can remember will be very helpful. Thank you.
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8 responses
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
18 Aug 07
I am sorry I can't recall that one, I didn't know the answer I was just going to keep going but I devided to stop in and say Hi. so how are you doing? I hope you fine the answer.
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
19 Aug 07
You are welcome, if I can't answer a discussion of yous I will still stop by, and give my input. Ok, I will chat later.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
16 Aug 07
Thank you so much. I am starting to give up. I have told my friend to call her sister and ask her about the album, but she has not done that. She claims that her sister has a much better memory than she. But that she is two years younger. Unitl she calls her sister, I am done looking.
@trinihd (996)
• United States
15 Aug 07
I think I found the one you need. It's Volume 4 apparently...according to finderskeepersvarietystore dot com. They have a number you can call to order. The web price is $1.00 - sounds like a steal! The number is 1-866-484-0772. I don't think you can order by phone, so you will have to visit the website to place the order. There is a picture of the album there and it mentions Julie Andrews and some other artists. If you go to the main site and do a search for Firestone volume 4, you will find it. This was not as hard as I thought it would be to find! :)
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
18 Aug 07
That is really nice Trinihd that yu are going to do that you gave her quite a bit of information about what she was looking for.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
15 Aug 07
This is so sweet of you. But she says that Julie Andrews is not on the album. This is like looking for a needle in a hay stack. Thank you so much for your help and if you come up with anything else, please let me know. I will check out all the information that you shared.
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@trinihd (996)
• United States
15 Aug 07
Wow! This is so freaky, I am pretty sure I have that album...! You know...I was about to log off this site, close the window, when I said...well let me try to add at least one more response, and then I saw your post....and I was about to say, I think there may be more than one of these albums...but then you mentioned Julie Andrews...and she is the reason I picked up the album so long ago at one of those Friends of Library sales! I will locate the record and type in the info on the cover for you. If you cannot locate it, I could try to put it on a cd for you...my neighbour does this sort of thing. I'll try and post the details as soon as I find the album.
@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
15 Aug 07
Thank you so much for the information. I am even looking forward to seeing this album. After searching for it for so long last night, my curiosity is up and alert. I am hoping that you will remember to get back to me as soon as you have found it. Thanks again.
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@trinihd (996)
• United States
15 Aug 07
Good new and bad! I found a Firestone album and it is only Julie Andrews. I am pretty sure I have an album like the one you describe but that one does not have a red bow on it, and I have to go looking for that one still.
Here are the details for the one I found:
Firestone presents
Your Favorite Christmas Carols
Volume 5 (one the top left side of the bow)
Julie Andrews (top right)
Collections album
Custom Recording
Featuring the Bells of Christmas
Music by Edward Thomas
Lyrics by Anne Croswell (bottom left)
Andre Previn
And The
Firestone Orchestra
And Chorus (bottom right)
At the back, additionally: Arrangements by Andre Previn
Side A:
Band 1: Joy to the World
Band 2: Irish Carol
Band 3: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Band 4: Deck the Halls
Band 5: Angels from the Realms
Band 6: Away in a Manger
SIDE B
Band 1: The Bells of Christmas
Band 2: It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
Band 3: Sunny Bank (I saw Three Ships)
Band 4: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Band 5: Wexford Carol
Band 6: Jingle Bells
Created and Produced by Forrell & Thomas, Inc
Conductor: Andre Previn
Supervisor of Productions
Richard M. Bradshaw
A&R Supervisor
Neely Plumb
Recording Engineer
Richard Bogert
Production Manager
Eleanor Fogelson
Album Design: Copyright 1963, FT&P Assoc., Inc
Contents: Copyright 1966, Forrell & Thomas. Inc
157 West 57 Street, New York, NY
(Andre Previn courtesy of RCA Victor Record Division)
I will attempt to upload a photo of the album cover asap.
@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
16 Aug 07
If I am remembering correctly Firestone put out a christmas album every year. My parents use to have several. I think Julie Andrews may have done one or two. Bing Crosby did some also. Good luck in your search.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
17 Aug 07
Thank you very much for the information. This is the first I have heard about Bing Crosby being a part of it. It is so funny because a psychiatrist told me once that a lot of Jewish people made Christmas music, even though they do not believe in Jesus. He said that Bing Crosby was one of those.
@DavesWorld56 (1)
• United States
11 Jan 08
Volumes 1 - 7 of the Firestone Christmas LPs came out in the 1960's. However, Firestone continued to release Christmas LPs into the 1970's that had individual photos of about 12 different artists, and the LPs had different titles & covers each year. You can find these quite often on ebay.
Dave
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• United States
29 Nov 07
Check out great-songs-of-chritmas.com I think it was one of these albums.
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