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Various Where Will You Be Christmas Day? (1959)
"These songs and performances reflect sentiments of earlier times, when the holiday involved more than indoor trees and endless trips to the mall." — Dick Spottswood from the liner notes\n\nDust-to-Digital is proud to announce a Holiday Series, curated by musicologist Dick Spottswood. Based on his popular radio show in Washington, D.C., our series is initiated with a Christmas Gift, a compact disc full of rare yuletide gems.\n\nJust as Goodbye, Babylon showed the many sides of gospel music, Where Will You Be Christmas Day? shows many sides of Christmas – from Jesus born in the manger to Leroy Carr spending the holiday in jail. Some of the artists featured include Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Butterbeans and Susie, Fiddlin' John Carson, Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers, Lightnin' Hopkins, Los Jibaros, Kansas City Kitty, Lead Belly, Lord Executor, Maddox Brothers and Rose, and Bessie Smith. Together they provide a compelling contrast to the commercialized Christmas we know today.
This blues cd contains 24 tracks and runs 74min 8sec.
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1. Vera Hall Ward - The Last Month Of The Year (02:31)
   Vocal. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, October 10, 1959.\n\nSpoken: And I want y'all to remember that Christmas is Jesus' birthday\nNow I want y'all to remember this song too, and don't never forget it\nJesus' birthday, the month that Jesus was born in\nYou bigger g
2. Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers - Christ Was Born On Christmas Morn (03:24)
   Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon and choir, with Ernest "Punch" Miller - cornet, piano, banjo, and bass horn.\nChicago, August 28, 1929.\n\nEarly on one Christmas morn, Jesus Christ the Son was born\nSinging carols, Christmas songs, early on one Christmas morn\n
3. Lead Belly - Christmas Is A-Coming (01:05)
   Vocal with twelve-string guitar.\nNew York City, 1940s.\n\nChristmas is a-coming and it's a-jumping\nChristmas is a-coming and it's a-jumping\nChristmas is a-coming and it's a-jumping\nBoy it won't be long\n\nChicken crows at midnight on a Christmas Day\n
4. Lord Executor - Christmas Is A Joyful Day (02:46)
   with Gerald Clark and his Caribbean Serenaders: Gerald Clark - guitar, with trumpet, violin, clarinet, piano, cuatro, and bass.\nNew York City, February 25, 1937.\n\nChorus:\nMammy, will you sing "Let's Give Him a Cantaway" on Christmas Day?\nPappy, will
5. Pawlo Humeniuk - Dance Under The Willows (Tanec Pid Werbamy) (03:18)
   Violin solo with cymbaly (hammered dulcimer), bass, and sleigh bells.\nNew York City, November 1926.\n\nEnthusiastic sleigh bells provide the seasonal accent for a virtuoso fiddle tune. Paul Humeniuk (ca. 1884-1965) was born in western Ukraine and made hu
6. Los Jibaros - Décimas De Nacimiento (03:22)
   Vilar and Pedro Dávila (Davilita) - vocal duet, with three guitars and güiro.\nNew York City, November 14, 1935.\n\nVilar:\nEn un pesebre nacio\na eso de la medianoche\nun niño que sin reproche\nclamaron hijo de Dios\nUna estrella iluminó\nel sitio do
7. Pasquale Feis - Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle (Pastorale Di Natale) (02:52)
   Vocal with zampogna (bagpipe) and ciaramella (reed pipe).\nNew York City, June 1917.\n\nTu scendi dalle stelle o Re del cielo,\nE vieni in una grotta al freddo e al gelo,\nE vieni in una grotta al freddo e al gelo.\n\nO bambino mio divino io ti vedo qui t
8. Buell Kazee - Lady Gay (03:03)
   Vocal with banjo.\nNew York City, January 16, 1928.\n\nThere was a lady and a lady gay\nOf children she had three\nShe sent them away to the north country\nFor to learn their grammar-y\n\nThey had not been there very long\nScarcely six months and a day\n'
9. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Sherburne (01:45)
   Eugene Dawson - leader.\nFyffe, Alabama, September 13, 1959.\n\nWhile shepherds watched their flocks by night\nAll seated on the ground\nThe angel of the Lord came down\nAnd glory shone around\n\nThe tune to "Sherburne" was written by Daniel Read in 1783.
10. Kelly Pace, Aaron Brown, Joe Green, Paul Hayes & Matthew Johnson - Holy Babe (07:07)
    Vocal quintet.\nCummins State Farm, Gould, Arkansas, May 1939.\n\nChildren go and I will send thee\nWhere shall I send thee?\n\nLord, I shall send thee twelve by twelve\nWell, twelve was the twelve disciples\nAnd eleven was the eleven riders\nAnd ten was
11. Rev. J. M. Gates - He Was Born In A Manger (03:12)
    Vocal, assisted by Deacon Leon Davis and Sisters Jordan and Norman.\nAtlanta, October 4, 1927.\n\nChildren, my subject this morning: and He was born in a manger\nWhen I'm thinking about Christmas Day\nAnd think about the day [accept that] Christ was born\
12. Rev. Edward W. Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist) - The Wrong Way To Celebrate Christmas (02:33)
    Vocal with slide guitar.\nChicago, October 18, 1928.\n\nSome people use the wrong way, the wrong way, the wrong way\nSome people use the wrong way to celebrate Christmas Day\n\nOn the twenty-fifth of December 1928 (it's a national issue...) of heaven to t
13. Walter Davis - Santa Claus (03:07)
    Vocal with piano, Henry Townsend - guitar.\nChicago, July 28, 1935.\n\nBoys, here come that killer, you oughta know just how I feel\n\nSanta Claus, won't you please hear my lonesome plea\nSanta Claus, Santa Claus, won't you please hear my lonesome plea\nI
14. McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Gee, Ain't I Good To You? (03:24)
    Don Redman - leader, alto sax, arranger, vocal, Joe Smith - cornet, Sidney De Paris, Leonard Davis - trumpets, Claude Jones - trombone, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Theodore McCord - reeds, Fats Waller - piano, Dave Wilborn - banjo, Billy Taylor - bass
15. Bessie Smith - At The Christmas Ball (03:27)
    Vocal with Joe Smith - cornet, Charlie Green - trombone, Fletcher Henderson - piano.\nNew York City, November 18, 1925.\n\nHey Bessie, Christmas here!\n\nIt's here, hurray for Christmas!\n\nChristmas comes but once a year, and to me it brings good cheer,\
16. Butterbeans & Susie - Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (And Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree) (03:17)
    Vocal duet with Eddie Heywood - piano.\nNew York City, August 13, 1930.\n\nNow look here, Sue, you sure is tight\nJust found that out?\nYou ain' never treat sweet Papa Butter right\nStill you run around here asking for this and that\nWhy shouldn't I?\nTel
17. Kansas City Kitty - Christmas Morning Blues (03:04)
    Vocal with piano.\nChicago, November 1, 1934.\n\nI woke up Christmas morning, went out to get my morning's mail\nI woke up Christmas morning, went out to get my morning's mail\nA letter sent from Georgia, the postmark said Atlanta Jail\n\nIn a mean old ja
18. Leroy Carr - Christmas In Jail - Ain't That A Pain (03:22)
    Vocal with piano, with Francis "Scrapper" Blackwell - guitar.\nChicago, August 13, 1929.\n\nThe blues come fallin', they fall like drops of rain\nThe blues come fallin', they fall like drops of rain\nI've got to spend my Christmas locked up in jail again\
19. Lord Beginner - Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning (03:07)
    Vocal with John “Buddy” Williams and his Blue Rhythm Orchestra: John “Buddy” Williams - bass, with trumpet, reeds, piano, and drums.\nPort-of-Spain, Trinidad, January 30, 1939.\n\nOn Christmas mornin' the overnight rum had me yawnin'\nOn Christmas
20. Fiddlin' John Carson and His Virginia Reelers - Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over (02:52)
    John Carson - voice and fiddle, Earl Johnson - fiddle, Moonshine Kate Carson - guitar or banjo, T. M. "Bully" Brewer - guitar or banjo.\nAtlanta, October 11, 1927.\n\nChristmas time will soon be over\nChristmas time will soon be over\nChristmas time will
21. Norman Edmonds - Breaking Up Christmas (01:58)
    Fiddle solo, Rufus Quesinberry - banjo, Paul Edmonds - guitar.\nHillsville, Virginia, August 28, 1959.\n\nNorman Edmonds (1889-1976) of Carroll County, Virginia is best remembered for his fiddling on the 1927 “Train on the Island," with banjoist J.P. Ne
22. Mary Harris - Happy New Year Blues (03:11)
    Vocal with Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch) - piano, Charlie Jordan - guitar.\nChicago, October 31, 1935.\n\nGood mornin', people, I wish you a Happy New Year\nGood mornin', people, I wish you a Happy New Year\nI'm so glad, people, so glad that I'm here.
23. Lightnin' Hopkins - Happy New Year (03:42)
    Vocal with electric guitar, bass, and drums.\nNew York City, July 29, 1953.\n\nThis is Happy New Year ain' gon' worry me to death\nThis is Happy New Year ain' gon' worry me to death\nDon't think about Christmas 'cause Christmas just now left\n\nWhoo, ain'
24. Maddox Brothers and Rose - Jingle Bells (02:23)
    Rose Maddox - vocal, Cal Maddox - harmony vocal and guitar, Fred Maddox - harmony vocal and bass, Henry Maddox - electric mandolin, Don Maddox - fiddle, possibly Roy Nichols - electric guitar, with harmonica and sleigh bells. Los Angeles, ca. 1951.\n\nDas