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The Soundtrack you hear in your head as you hand the toll collector your last dollar and drive tentatively into the lonely tunnel toward the arms of Morpheus. But like, who's playing that crazy organ? (Visit homepage.)
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| Rota, Nino |
Quanto Mi Piace La Gradisca
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Amarcord | Cam | CD | ||||||
| Alfven, Hugo |
Swedish Rhapsody #1
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Fifty Years of Vox Recordings | Vox Box | 1995 | CD | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra cond. by Sergiu Comissiona | ||||
| Arthur Lyman |
Silver Bells
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With a Christmas Vibe | Ryko | CD | ||||||
| Melgard, Al |
March of the Wooden Soldiers
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at the Chicago Stadium Organ | Audio Fidelity | 1958 | Vinyl |
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| Johnny Largo |
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
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Joyous Sounds of Christmas At the Optigan | Optigan | CD | ||||||
| Mychols, Lisa |
Listen to the Bells Ring
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CD | Filling in for Fabio, this DJ hears bells ring 365 days-a-year, Bob Rixon a.k.a. DJ Rix. | |||||||
| Respighi |
Adoration of the Magi (Trittico Botticelliano: L'Adorazione Dei Magi - Andante Lento)
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Respighi / Martinu | Media Classics | CD | ||||||
| Carpenters |
Merry Christmas, Darling
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Carpenters Christmas Portrait | A&M | 1978 | Vinyl | Song first released Nov. 1970. | ||||
| Pascha, Edmund (1714-1772) |
Gloria
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Christmas Mass | Point Classics | 1994 | CD | Musica Bohemia cond. by Jaroslac Krcek | ||||
| Swingle Singers |
Aria from Bach Suite in D Major
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Bach's Greatest Hits | Philips | Vinyl | Of course it ain't jazz. The French can't play jazz. | |||||
| Mozart, Wolfgang |
German Dance No. 3, K. 605
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Mozart: German Dances | Naxos | 1989 | CD | Istropolitana Capella Conducted by Johannes Wildner | ||||
| Lewis, John |
England's Carol
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European Windows | RCA | 1958 / 1980 | Vinyl |
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Third Stream style. With Connie Kay, drums; Percy Heath, bass; members of the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra. Third Stream posed a question that didn't really need to be asked. I'm not sure what the question was, but the answer was an emphatic, "no." |
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| Jimmy Smith |
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
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Christmas Cookin' | Verve | 1966 | Vinyl | Quentin Warren, guitar; Billy Hart, drums. | ||||
| Elton Britt |
Christmas in November
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Jingle Bell Rock (compilation) | Pickwick | Vinyl |
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| Buck Owens & the Buckeroos |
All I Want for Christmas Is My Daddy
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Christmas Shopping | Capitol | CD | ||||||
| Rimsky-Korsakov |
Christmas Eve (Suite No.2 from the opera)
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Rimsky-Korsakov: The Spirit of Russia | Vox Box | 1978 / 1993 | CD | Bochum Symphony cond. by Othmar Maga | ||||
| Stephanie Mills |
Sweet Sensation
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Ear Candy (compilation) | 20th Century Fox Records | 1981 | Vinyl |
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| Rascals |
I Believe
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Search & Nearness | CD | |||||||
| Margie Joseph |
Christmas Gift
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Soul Christmas | Atlantic | CD | ||||||
| Lisa Mychols |
Closer to Jerusalem
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| Hugo Largo |
Angels We Have Heard On High
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Winter Wonderland | 1988 | Vinyl | Compilation | |||||
| Blind Boys of Alabama with Mavis Staples |
Born in Bethlehem
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Go Tell It On the Mountain | Real World | 2003 | CD | |||||
| Komatsu, Joanie |
Po la'i E (Silent Night)
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Ki Ho'alu Christmas: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters | Windham Hill Records | 1996 | CD | Lovely music. | ||||
| Grassy Knoll |
Silver Bells
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A Mutated Christmas | Illegal Art | CD | ||||||
| John Cage |
Music for Carillon No. 1 (1952)
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25 Year Retrospective Concert | Wergo | CD | Recorded at Town Hall, May 15, 1958 | |||||
| Jacob, Gordon |
The Bells (from William Byrd Suite)
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British Band Classics Vol. 2, | Mercury | Vinyl |
Eastman Wind Ensemble cond. by Frederick Fennell.  The "Living Presence" was a sonic wonder in its time, as my oldest brother loved to demonstrate on his hi fi using this LP. |
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| Elgar, Edward |
4th Movement: Lento Allegro
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Symphony No. 1 | IMP | 1991 | CD | Hallé Orchestra, cond. by James Judd | ||||
| Until that time, just close your eyes & pretend to be asleep. (Listen: Pop-up) | "Voiceover" music provided by MUZAK Stimulus Progression LP No. 3. "Every quarter-hour of MUZAK programming begins relatively quietly and grows steadily more stimulating." | |||||||||
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