Somebody Explain It to Me!

The title of this compilation, I mean.

Seriously.  There are more than 12 days in December, last time I looked.

DISC 1:

01 - O Come All Ye Faithful - Herb Avery

02 - Carol of the Bells - Robert Strickland

03 - O Little Town of Bethlehem - Robert Strickland

04 - Good King Wenceslas - Herb Avery

05 - Green Sleeves - Herb Avery

06 - O Tannenbaum - Herb Avery

07 - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Herb Avery

08 - The First Noel - Robert Strickland

09 - When Christ Was Born of Mary Free - Robert Strickland

10 - O How Joyfully-Deck the Halls - Robert Strickland

11 - Go Tell It on the Mountain - Robert Strickland

12 - In the Manger - Herb Avery

13 - Whence Is that Goodly Fragrance - Herb Avery

14 - Born on Earth the Divine Christ Child - Herb Avery

DISC 2:

01 - Hark, the Herald Angels Sing - Herb Avery

02 - O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - Herb Avery

03 - March of the Three Kings - Robert Strickland

04 - Silent Night - Herb Avery

05 - Jingle Bells-Jolly Old Saint Nick - Robert Strickland

06 - Rocking Toyland - Robert Strickland

07 - Here Is Joy for Every Age - Herb Avery

08 - Sans Day Carol - Herb Avery

09 - Here We Come a Caroling - Robert Strickland

10 - Away in a Manger - Robert Strickland

11 - Angels We Have Heard on High - Robert Strickland

12 - Coventry Carol - Herb Avery

It’s got the same performances from Avery as his New Age Noel  https://www.discogs.com/Herb-Avery-New-Age-Noel/release/15330875   -- (except for “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”; Bach’s “Prelude in C”; and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”)

And it may contain performances from Strickland’s album 12 Days in December https://www.discogs.com/Robert-Strickland-12-Days-In-December/release/14724322 – I haven’t heard Strickland so I cannot say for sure. 

This cassette may be a shortened version of:  https://www.discogs.com/Robert-Strickland-Herb-Avery-Silent-Night-Carols-For-Solo-Piano/master/1747103 – but for example the cassette’s final listed track is “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” which isn’t present in the CD set.

Track 3 of Disc Two is called “March of the Three Kings” – it is really an arrangement of the Farandole from Bizet’s L'Arlesienne Suite No 2.

Track 4 of Disc Two, Herb Avery’s “Silent Night,” also interweaves the second movement of Beethoven’s “Pathétique” piano sonata.

It's all in one file.

The 12 Days in December

Happy whatever-day-this-is.  See you on Monday.