Happy Holidays from If 6 was 9 Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
This album was added in 2012, to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". // PERSONNEL: Vince Guaraldi – piano, bandleader; Fred Marshall - double bass; Jerry Granelli - drums
* - The orchestral version was first recorded in 1949 by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, a hit record on RCA Victor Red Seal, and now one of the orchestra's signature songs. The lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish in 1950.
From the Youtube video: "soul duo Frankie & the Overdrafts {was} Frankie "Flat Broke" Jenkins, a postal worker moonlighting as a singer, and his cousin Leroy, a bass player fresh out of small claims court, wrote the song in a Detroit diner over black coffee and IOUs.". Take it with a shaker-full of salt ... - LsA
* - The orchestral version was first recorded in 1949 by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, a hit record on RCA Victor Red Seal, and now one of the orchestra's signature songs. The lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish in 1950.
Thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label (Moon). She was born in Pontotoc, MS in 1923.
