There sure are a lot of Christmas records, but not so many for Easter, although they do exist. Here is one from my collection, a 78 single with an attractive picture sleeve, likely issued for Easter 1948.
The artist is a very young Vic Damone, who performs two religious works: Crown Without a Thorn, based on an Anton Rubinstein piano piece, and César Franck's setting of Panis Angelicus.
Crown is quite well done, but Vic and the others don't seem to be on the same page pitch-wise for Panis, at least to this tin-eared blogger.
The grandly-titled Mercury Chorale is led by Mercury A&R chief Mitchell Miller (better known as Mitch when not in the classical or semi-classical realm).
4 comments:
Nope, not many Easter records out there, but you've got two good ones here. Thanks for sharing!
Mitch Miller spent some time at Mercury? I had no idea. All I knew of from Mercury was David Carroll. Good stuff to know.
New transfer, remastered by me (Apple lossless):
http://big10inchrecord.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-songs-by-vic-damone.html
Is it possible to re-upload ? Thank you
Yes, here you are:
https://mega.nz/file/aNMyUCTZ#AXUDk-Sv2a6kHQnImo7beIlX61V0CIaHnDreMUN1ic4
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