A Little Bit Colder by Cristy Lane (1971)

Today I started what I hope to be a daily offering of Christmas holiday themed YouTube videos. I have plenty of obscure songs not found on YouTube so I will share these treasures with everyone out there. All of these tracks come from Christmas music obsessed people--Andy Cirzan, et al.-- who spend their time searching for them and then share them via playlist downloads on the web. What I will do is take the ones I like best and provide them individually on YT. Sound quality is an issue on some of these recordings but it is not my fault! I realize most of them come from old vinyl that is not in the best of condition. But it is surprising to me that they were not digitized in a higher quality fashion. Since I am a digitizer of vinyl myself, I can attest to having taken some very poor condition records and turning them into some great quality mp3 files. The mono ones come out even better sounding than their stereo counterparts. If I had access to all this Christmas vinyl that I will be uploading, I would make some really great sounding files with the software I use. Alas, we'll have to work with what he have at hand.

My first upload for the season is one from Andy Cirzan titled, "A Little Bit Colder" by Cristy Lane. After a little bit of research I learned that this is the original 1971 version released on the very obscure Extremely Brave record label. She re-recorded this song for a 1983 release and it has nowhere near the charm of this early 70's nugget.

Yowls & Yodels from the Yule Vortex (2010)

Here is Andy Cirzan's annual Christmas mix from 2010. I was not able to find the back cover art. I probably have it somewhere on my drives but who knows where.

The Cassette Years: Part 1 (2008)

I've got Andy Cirzan's annual Christmas mix from 2008 so hear it while you can. I don't know if these things will be taken down or not, but as they say, hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

Songs for the Christmas Season 29

Let's keep the Christmas music going, ay? First up today is The Band doing their song, "Christmas Must Be Tonight," featuring the lead vocals of Rick Danko.





To follow that up will be another one from my own channel, The Dellacroce Sisters doing "Who is Santa Claus?" Definitely a fun tund and in the Christmas spirit.

YouTube Channel: MusicMasters

I created a YouTube channel that I titled "MusicMasters" and I will be publishing obscure and/or forgotten music on there from my personal collection. My intent is to cover 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000's music that is not already on YouTube. There is so much music that is readily available on there. I started going through lists of songs I wanted to upload but most of the ones I checked are already there. This might make things a bit difficult as I wanted to do a song a day. I could easily accomplish this by uploading any song that is not already there but I only want to add my favorites and share music that I consider must-be-heard.

I uploaded my first one today and here it is: