Partridge Family Christmas Card

This my last Christmas record post of the season.   The Partridge Family was one of my favorite TV shows growing up.  ABC's Friday night power line-up in the early seventies, started off with them and The Brady Bunch.  Aside from the music, which is debatable, the show was hilarius and entertaining.  The brotherly conniving and capers between David Cassidy and Danny Bonaduce was funny then and funnier today on reruns.  David Cassiday is Shirley Jones' stepson in real-life.  The group in the TV show as loosely based on The Cowsills.  See my earlier Laurel Canyon posts.  I loved also Dave Madden, as Reuben Kincaid, their manager, in the role he was born to play.

Elvis' Christmas Album

Sorry for having to use wiki for this.  Ths record "was reissued a year after its first release, replacing the iconic cover of the original with a close-up of Elvis' face as he posed against an outdoor, snowy backdrop. The record reached the album charts each year until 1962, eventually selling more than three million units worldwide.  The original Elvis' Christmas Album was out of print by the late 1960s. Interest in the album prompted RCA to re-release it in an altered version on its budget label RCA Camden in 1970. This version eliminated the four gospel tracks from Peace in the Valley, and added the 1966 holiday single "If Every Day Was Like Christmas," along with the 1970 non-seasonal b-side "Mama Liked The Roses," issued as the flip to Elvis' top ten single "The Wonder of You." With ten tracks and a shorter running time, it fit the standard for the budget label issues. The religious and secular Christmas songs were also mixed together. The initial cover of this revised version echoed that of the 1958 reissue, except a more recent mid-60s vintage photograph of Presley was used."

The Outlaws - Another Love Song

Try doing this with a CD case.  The photo is the full view of the front (right) and back (left) cover of the Outlaws' self-titled debut record.  It begins (There Goes Another Love Song - track 1 side A) and ends (Green Grass and High Tides, last song on side B) with two great songs.  There Goes Another Love Song remains one of my favorites.  We played it like crazy after swim practice at high school parties.  I put that song a party tape, having recorded it to cassette from a best-of album, called the South's Greatest Hits - a compilation album of acts on Capricorn Records.

The Moody Blues - Lovely to see You

On the Threshold of a Dream.  Did you have any Moody Blues records growing up? They were big on theme or concept albums. My childhood pal Bruce was a huge fan of theirs. He had the best record player in the neighborhood too - it was a Panasonic Quadraphonic, with (duh) four speakers. I am not really a huge fan of the Moodies, but I now have almost every original Moody Blues record by default The front cover of this record has a psychedelic drawing of a bare, uprooted flying tree with an eye and ear. But the photo I've chosen (inside cover) is what I love most: a quintessential, late '60's British prog rock band, shown at an outdoor group photo shoot: gray sky, wet sidewalk, and serious glances. Post title is Lovely to See You.