Vintage Christmas Songs from the 20s

CAAC — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 05:00:30 +0000

Welcome to Monday’s Mewsic Moves Me on Sunday!

There won’t be an honorary 4M co-host for December because all month long it’s nothing but Christmas mewsic! There’s no room for the mean Mr. Grinch or the bah-humbug from an old Scrooge if you’re not with the Christmas program, then kindly take yourself elsewhere cause we don’t want you spoiling our party!

For the 5th year, my late mother-in-law celebrates her birthday in heaven. If she were still with us this would be her 92nd birthday. To honor her on this day, I learned from playback.fm that Christmas Chimes by Adrian Schubert’s Concert Orchestra was the number #1 popular song the year Dorothy was born (1927).

The 20s era produced a number of old songs that carried down the year and here you’ll find more popular songs & singers from 1927. One of the songs found mentioned at Pop Culture Madness is Blue Sky written by Irving Berlin who gave us one of the most famous Christmas songs of all times, White Christmas.

It was unknown to me for years that Berlin’s song made famous by Bing Crosby was first purrformed in the movie, Holiday Inn. What’s neat about the above clip is the starlet, Majorie Reynolds, singing with Bing isn’t really singing at all but the ghost singer, Martha Mears but what makes it really neat is I discovered while pulling this post together that another 20s songwriter, Hoagy Carmichael wrote my next featured Christmas track sung by Martha Mears, My Christmas Song For You.

I wanted to find more Christmas mewsic written in the decade my MIL was born but my results were limited to these few. However, I did stumble on a delightful playlist of holiday songs from the 20s & 30s thanks to YouTuber, Lindsey Holiday.

❆That’s Me Santa Claus (1928) Vernon Dalhart

❆Jingle Bells (1925) Shannon Quartet

❆March of the Toys (1939) Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra

❆ Button Up Your Overcoat (1930) Zelma O’Neal & Jack Haley

❆ Savoy Christmas Medley (1929)Lloyd Shakespeare’s New Piccadilly Band

❆In a Merry Mood (1934) Barnabas Von Géczy & His Orchestra

❆Silver Bells (1931) by Shep Fields & His Orchestra

❆Silent Night (1928) Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Bing Crosby

❆ Auld Lang Syne (1921) Peerless Quartet

Wasn’t that a lot of fun? I hope you enjoyed these older versions of popular and not-so-popular Christmas songs.

Please read…this is a mewsic linky party, which means all participates are sharing songs that one can listen to from YouTube or Vimeo and a not a post about mewsic or mewsicians. Failure to meet this basic guideline puts your URL in danger of being removed or labeled – NO MUSIC.

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