Celebrate in Merry Measure

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	• Christmas in the Charts 1920-2004 Record Research Inc., 2004 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Celebrate in Merry Measure

This book lists the information for every Christmas (or New Year's or Chanukah or winter) song or album that every appeared on the Billboard music charts. And by charts I mean EVERY chart. Information was taken from the Pop charts, the R&B charts, the Country charts, the Jazz charts, the Children's music charts and every other chart that ever appeared in Billboard magazine (including, of course, the actual Christmas music charts). The songs are arranged by both the performers and the song titles. So, for instance you can look up Bing Crosby to find out which of his Christmas singles and albums charted (by the way, the albums listings list all the songs that are on the albums). Or you could look up "White Christmas", to see how many different Christmas albums that song appeared on (the answer is 232, by the way). There is also a color section, which has beautiful reproductions of old Christmas records and their covers. The book is very comprehensive, so since it does exactly what it sets out to do, I am giving it five stars.

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Collector's Dream

As a collector and DJ I adore this book. Whitburn's Pop Singles helped me make my oldies collection and I'm just finishing up my Christmas collection using this book. Honestly, I recommend any book put out by Record Research.

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Christmas in the charts

Loaded with information, it has to be the Bible of Christmas music.

A jolly, joyous celebration of America's favorite holiday music, Christmas in the Charts 1920-2004 is the complete history of every charted Christmas single and album of the past 85 years. Includes all the trimmings on every chart entry for every Christmas hit from familiar names like Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley, The Temptations, Garth Brooks, Glenn Miller, and many more arranged by artist, and including full chart data. Also features special sections listing A-Z singles titles, A-Z album tracks, and a special 24-page photo section with 286 photos of the rarest and most colorful Christmas picture sleeves, album covers, and more.

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