Favorite Christmas Song/Artist

pitdogg2

Anything Dean Martin. My granny loved him and I must confess as I get older I really appreciate these old guys who are no longer here. What a great time it was back then.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy7w51eClQE

scubalab

Too many to choose, but this one hasn't been mentioned yet:

https://youtu.be/3NH-ctddY9o

Also really like this one:

https://youtu.be/LelK0UIqDHA

mhardy6647

pitdogg2 wrote: »

Anything Dean Martin. My granny loved him and I must confess as I get older I really appreciate these old guys who are no longer here. What a great time it was back then.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy7w51eClQE

Well -- the thing about ol' Deano. He made it all look so, so easy. He perfected his shtick. His variety show in the sixties was great (or, at least in my memory, it was). Dean, cocktail (martini?) in one hand, cigarette in the other, and a glassy-eyed gaze -- nailing it, every time.

Those guys had style.

[Deleted User]

Here's Frank threading up a Christmas music tape on his Presto deck.

VR3

Of course

Rage against the machine - killing in the name of!

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/12/time-rage-machine-song-christmas-number-1/#:~:text=The band's anti-establishment mantra,the Christmas singles top spot.

PSOVLSK

mhardy6647 wrote: »

PSOVLSK wrote: »

If you could only hear one Christmas song this year, what would it and who would be the artist? ...

Note: This is a different "ask" than the thread title ("Favorite Christmas Song/Artist")

Only one?

A really, really hard choice -- but, if really only one.

https://youtu.be/nud2TQNahaU

sorry.

I guess I just assumed everyone would want to listen to their favorite rendition of their favorite song. Guess I was mistaken.

Lots of good songs here regardless.

mhardy6647

KennethSwauger wrote: »

Here's Frank threading up a Christmas music tape on his Presto deck.

And, studio ready to play back the three-track tapes.
Gotta love the Fisher tuner and Mac preamp in that built-in system, too.
There are myriad great photos of Frank and his hifi(s) at home(s).

[Deleted User]

I wonder what those three chassis are underneath the Fisher tuner, amplifiers probably. The speakers look custom made.

nooshinjohn

Nancy Sinatra auctioned off some of her dad’s stuff recently, and I believe some of that gear was among the items sold...

aprazer402

KennethSwauger wrote: »

I wonder what those three chassis are underneath the Fisher tuner, amplifiers probably. The speakers look custom made.

I would speculate the large drawer with the center pull knob, above those three chassis, there might be a turntable?

mhardy6647

KennethSwauger wrote: »

I wonder what those three chassis are underneath the Fisher tuner, amplifiers probably. The speakers look custom made.

Yeah, me, too.
I thought some kind of signal processing, but... I dunno.

[Deleted User]

First of all, sorry to derail the original theme of this thread. Sometimes one subject inspires a branching interest. It seems the three units under the tuner are power supplies for the three Presto tape electronics. Placing as far away from the other components was a good idea and there seems to be ventilation openings below.

mhardy6647

KennethSwauger wrote: »

First of all, sorry to derail the original theme of this thread. Sometimes one subject inspires a branching interest. It seems the three units under the tuner are power supplies for the three Presto tape electronics. Placing as far away from the other components was a good idea and there seems to be ventilation openings below.

I see your posts as a friendly amendment, @KennethSwauger (not that I am the OP).
Maybe Ava or whichever wife was present at the time got them for Ol' Blue Eyes for Christmas; who knows?
And, although none of his are my favorite-est of all, Frank did some marvelous treatments of both sacred & secular Christmas songs on (at least) Christmas Dreaming and A Jolly Christmas [from...].

[Deleted User]

I think my favorite Christmas album is: