Santa Swings - The Windup - A Stocking Full Of Shellac Dust

Description

Shellac instead of stardust: when Santa takes off his boots and unpacks the gramophone once his work is done: Bear Family Records® dives deep into the shellac box! No intrusive bells, no ho-ho chumming, or strangely distorted reindeer voices: every year, around the same time, department store displays buckle under hastily and often suspiciously similar "swing" compilations, since "swing is back." Our journey through the depths of various shellac racks, however, has uncovered a number of undiscovered treasures. Thus, we could defend the true "Spirit of Swing." Thrilling music from the 30s and 40s, highly danceable, elegant yet cool, performed by expert jazz musicians, pressed at the time on a mix of shellac, slate flour, soot, and cotton flakes, to be played with a steel needle (or possibly cactus tips for lower volume) at an incredible 78 revolutions per minute and... extremely fragile. "Windup," by the way, refers to the proper playback device with a crank; from today's perspective, very durable and environmentally friendly! Big names like Glenn Miller - with a very special version of Jingle Bells, recorded live on December 24, 1941!! - Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, or Ella Fitzgerald, as well as Putney Dandridge, expressed themselves in their own way on the Christmas theme.