perry como no place like home for holiday

The file I have, from Now That's What They Call
Christmas! is mono and runs 2:49.

thanks to john, he provided me with the proper file that
matches my vinyl 45 perfectly....thanks john...

eriejwg wrote: 10 years later, and I have a question since I don't remember which version was on Ed's 45. Was the 1954 version considered the hit version or the version Perry recorded in 1959?

I think it is the one in 1959.

Both the 1954 version of "Home For The Holidays" and the 1958 version of "The Little Drummer Boy" are on this Hit Parade CD:

https://www.ericrecords.com/AmazingStereoXmas.html

The 1954 version of "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays" is the hit version, because it's the only version that charted. It's easy to recognize as it's all up-tempo and starts with a big brass flourish. The 1959 version
starts out as a slow ballad.

The hit version of "The Little Drummer Boy" is the 1959 version. It's on the "Little Drummer Boy" album from Casablanca/Polygram. I also have it on North Star/Sony "Crooner's Christmas."

The hit original hit version of "The Christmas Song" is the 1946 version and it hasn't been on very many CDs. It sounds pretty good on the 1999 Capitol remaster of his "The Christmas Song" CD (it's a bonus track there). I think that
uses the same master as the version on "The Classic Singles" box. The 1953 re-recording is seldom heard these days, but it's all that was heard on jukeboxes for many, many years, as from 1953 on it was the only version available on
45. The 1961 stereo re-recording, done for "The Nat King Cole Story" box set, which featured stereo re-recordings of all his hits, has now become the classic version.

The original hit version of Gene Autry's "Frosty the Snowman" is rare on CD. It's a different take than what is usually reissued. I've been aware of its existence for years, but I always thought that the common version was the hit
and this "different" version was an alternate take. Nope! It's the other way around.

It's available on CD on Time-Life's "Your Hit Parade - Christmas Memories" and GSC-Sony's 4-disc "Christmas Songs to Remember." Instantly recognizable by the lyrical difference: the 45 version has "and his eyes made out of coal." The
now-standard alternate take has "and TWO eyes made out of coal." I actually think the common take is better, but I checked a vintage 78 on Archive.org as well as a 45 dub from the 78Prof on YouTube, and the "his eyes" take appears to
be the original hit version. I don't think it's ever been issued on any Gene Autry CD, only on a handful of V/A compilations.




Edited by Brian W.