Tweet Recordings of Christmas past

Just a random sprinkling of lovely old Christmas recordings:

Medley of Christmas Carols/Prince's Orchestra
(Columbia A753, recorded 1909)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8c32lF5Whg

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year/Bob Roberts
(Indestructible 1289, released 1910)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mk9DniXz28

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Trinity Choir
(Victor 17164, recorded 20 Oct. 1911)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55hzhCINFH8

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht/Ernestine Schumann-Heink
(Victor 88138, recorded 8 Dec. 1911)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_IpWSR_E6c

Adeste Fideles/John McCormack and chorus
(Victor 74436, recorded 31 Mar. 1915)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwGo1thfxSk

O Little Town of Bethlehem/Trinity Choir
(Victor 35594, recorded 6 Oct. 1916)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9jUIOyv4Ck

Christmas Fantasy, parts 1 & 2/Mark Andrews
(Victor 19816, part 1 recorded 15 Oct. [take 4]/23 Nov. 1925 [take 8; not sure which is used here];
part 2 recorded 8 Oct. 1925)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpR2bxUHMr0

O Holy Night/Lucy Isabelle Marsh with Trinity Choir
(Victor 45519, recorded 28 Oct. 1925)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ax9bfRDrhg

Adeste Fideles/Flonzaley Quartet
(Victor 1352, recorded 15 Oct. 1928)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFi3ZS8nmuw

Santa Claus is Coming to Town/George Hall and the Hotel Taft Orchestra
(Bluebird B-5711, recorded 13 Nov. 1934)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJK-ATTxsnE

-Harold

A lovely selection, Harold; thank you. Never get tired of Bob Roberts or Lucy Isabelle Marsh.

spadeneal

Harold,

Wow, the Theater Organ compilation of Traditional Holiday Melodies is wonderful. Overall, a very nice selection of rare recordings.

Over the Christmas season I stumbled upon this collection of early and rare Holiday-themed recordings (it looks like some from the above list were sourced from it):

http://www.archive.org/details/Voices_of_Christmas_Past_1898_to_1922

The most interesting of them is the first ever recording of `Jingle Bells', from 1898. Hearing the voices of people who lived over 110 years ago is quite something.