Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Saturday, December 18, 2021

NEW ARRIVALS FOR CHRISTMAS!



Happy Holidays! Here's the list of the latest new vinyl for this weekend:

AC/DC, Highway to Hell 
AC/DC, POWR/UP
Adele, 19 
Adele, 21
Adele, 25
Adele, 30
Aesop Rock & Blockhead, Garbology (2LP coloured vinyl)
Air, Moon Safari 
Al Green, Greatest Hits
Amy Winehouse, At the BBC (3LP)
Animal Collective, Feels (2LP)
Arctic Monkeys, AM
Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved a Man (180g)
B-52s, Cosmic Thing
Baroness, Purple 
BATFANGS, S/T (PINK VINYL) 
Beach House, B-Sides and Rarities
Beach House, Depression Cherry 
Billie Eilish, When We All Fall Asleep 
Bjork, Vespertine 
Black Pumas, s/t (deluxe 2 x colour vinyl+ 7-inch) 
Black Pumas, s/t (white vinyl) 
Blue Rodeo, Many a Mile (2LP) 
Bob Dylan, Basement Tapes
Boney M, Christmas Album
Bon Iver, s/t 
Brandi Carlile, The Firewatcher’s Daughter (2 x white vinyl) 
Bruce Cockburn, Joy Will Find a Way 
Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA 
Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen, Greeting from Asbury Park 
Bryan Adams, Cuts Like a Knife 
Bush, Razorblade Suitcase (2 x pink vinyl) 
Buzzcocks, Love Bites 
Cage the Elephant, Thank You Happy Birthday 
Carol King, Tapestry 
CCR, Mardi Gras (180g RE) 
Charles Bradley, Victim of Love
Childish Gambino, Awaken My Love
Childish Gambino, Because the Internet (2LP)
Chris deBurgh, Spanish Train
Chris Stapleton, Starting Over 2LP 
Clipping, Wriggle (ltd colour vinyl) 
Cocteau Twins, Bluebell Knoll 
Colter Wall, Imaginary Appalachia 
Common, A Beautiful Revolution PT 2 (neon yellow vinyl)
Courtney Barnett, Tell Me How You Really Feel (red vinyl) 
Courtney Barnett, Things Take Time (blue vinyl)
Crosby Stills Nash Young, So Far
Cult, Electric Peace (2LP) 
Cult, Sonic Temple (30th anniv) 
David Bowie, Aladdin Sane (180g) 
David Bowie, Let’s Dance 
David Bowie, Low (180g) 
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust (180g) 
Dead Can Dance, Serpent’s Egg
Dean Martin, The Dean Martin Christmas Album (red vinyl) 
Decemberists, Picaresque (2LP) 
DJ Shadow, Endtroducing (2 x 180g) older version
DMX, Greatest Hits (white & red splatter vinyl) 
Doors, s/t (180g) 
Doors, Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine (2LP) 
Eagles, Hotel California (180g)
Earl Sweatshirt, I Don’t Like Shit 
Ed Sheeran, = (black vinyl) 
Ed Sheeran, = (ltd. white vinyl) 
Elmer Bernstein, True Grit OST 
Etta James, At Last 
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours 
Flying Lotus, Yasuke (red vinyl) 
Foo Fighters, In Your Honor 2LP 
Foo Fighters, Medicine at Midnight 
Foo Fighters, The Color and the Shape 2LP 
Franz Ferdinand, s/t 
Fugees, The Score 2LP
Gordon Lightfoot, Summertime Dream
Hall n Oates, The Very Best of (2LP) 
Harry Styles, Fine Line
Huey Lewis, Sports
J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2LP)
J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive picture disc
James Taylor, Greatest Hits (180g) 
Janis Joplin, Cheap Thrills
Janis Joplin, Pearl
Jason Isbell, and the 400 Unit 2LP 
Joni Mitchell, Early Joni 1963
Jon Spencer, Extra Width 
Joy Division, Still (180g) 
Julie Doiron, I Thought of You 
Killers, Pressure Machine 
King Krule, You Heat Me Up (2LP)
Kraftwerk, Computer World (yellow vinyl) 
Kraftwerk, RAdio-Activity (yellow vinyl) 
Kraftwerk, Techo Pop (silver vinyl)
Kylie Minogue, Fever (20th anniv white vinyl) 
Lady Gaga, Chromatica (clear vinyl) 
LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver 2LP 
LCD Soundsystem, This is Happening 2LP 
Led Zeppelin, II (180g) 
Led Zeppelin, II (180g) 
Led Zeppelin, IV (180g) 
Leon Bridges, Good Thing 
Link Wray, Jack the Ripper 
Lloyd Miller, Oriental Jazz 
Lucy Dacus, Home Video (clear vinyl) 
MAc Demarco, II 
Mac Demarco, Salad Days 
Mac Demarco, This Old Dog 
Mac Miller, Faces (3 x yellow vinyl)
Madvillain, Madvillainy Remixes (2LP) 
Madvillain MF DOOM / Madlib, Madvillainy
Magic Sam, West Side Soul
Mamas and the Papas, Hits (2LP) 
Mastodon, Hushed and Grim 2LP
MGMT, Oracular Spectacular 
Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
Mountain Goats, Sunset Tree
Nathaniel Rateliff, The Future
National, I Am Easy to Find 2LP 
Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz 
Paul Simon, Graceland 
Pavement, Wowee Zowee (2LP) 
Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive 
Pharoah Sanders, Floating Points (colour vinyl) 
Phoebe Bridgers, Stranger in the Alps 
Pink Floyd, A Foot in the Door: Best of 
Pink Floyd, A Saucerful of Secrets 
Pink Floyd, Meddle (180g) 
Pink Floyd, Relic 
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd, The Final Cut 
Pink Floyd, The Wall (2LP) 
Pixies, Bossanova 
Primus, Suck On This
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, Villains (2LP) 
Quincy Jones, Roots OST 
Radiohead, Kid A Mnesia (3LP)
Rage Against the Machine, Evil Empire 
Rage Against the Machine, Renegades 
Rage Against the Machine, The Battle of Los Angeles 
Red Hot Chili Peppers, By the Way 
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Greatest Hits (2LP)
Rise Against, Nowhere Generation (flame vinyl) 
Runaways, Queens of Noise
Sharon Lois & Bram, In the Schoolyard
Sharon Lois & Bram, Sing’n Swinging
Shins, Wincing the Night Away 
Sigur Rós, Ágætis Byrjun (2 x 180g) 
Simon and Garfunkel, Parsley Sage 
Sly Stone, There’s a Riot Goin’ On (red vinyl)
Smiths, Hatful of Hollow
Strokes, The New Abnormal
Sun Ra, A Fireside Chat With Lucifer 
Talking Heads, 77
Taylor Swift, Lover
The Magic, Ragged Gold 
Thundercat, Drunk (4 x 10-inch box set) 
Tom Petty, wildflowers & All the Rest (3LP) 
Tragically Hip, Fully Completely (180g/Poster w/dL)
Tragically Hip, Road Apples 
Travis Scott, Astroworld 
Vampire Weekend, Contra 
Vampire Weekend, s/t 
Various, AC/DC: The Best of redux (2LP) 
Various, Cold Heat: Heavy Funk Rarities 68-4
Vince Guaraldi, A Charlie Brown Christmas (green vinyl) 
Weyes Blood, Titanic Rising 
Who, Live at Leeds
Whoop-szo, Warrior Down
ZZ Top, Eliminator 

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Vinyl Under the Tree: New Arrivals!


Gather round the tree and check out our new vinyl. Lots of Christmas records in stock, plus all the latest hits and tons of classic reissues and vintage used records as well!

NEW:
Aesop Rock & Blockhead, Garbology (2LP coloured vinyl)
Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (2LP) 
Arcade Fire, The Suburbs (2LP) 
Aretha Franklin, Aretha’s Greatest Hits 
Arkells, Blink Once
Audioslave, s/t (2lp) 
Badbadnotgood, Talk Memory 
Band, Cahoots 50th anniversary 
Bauhaus, Burning From the Inside
Beach Boys, Feel Flows (Sunflower/Surf’s Up) 
Beach House, Depression Cherry 
Bikini Kill, Pussy Whipped 
Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever 
Billie Eilish, When we all fall asleep 
Billy Idol, Happy Holiday (black vinyl) 
Billy Idol, Happy Holidays (white vinyL) 
Bjork, Debut 
Bjork, Vespertine (2LP) 
Black Keys, El Camino (10th anniv deluxe remastered 3LP) 
Black Keys, Magic Potion 
Black Sabbath, Never Say Die
Blondie, Yuletide Throwdown 12-inch (xmas) 
Blood Incantations, Starspawn
Bon Iver, s/t 
Boy Pablo, Soy Pablo 
Bring Me the Horizon, 2004-2013 
Buffalo Springfield, Again
Buffalo Springfield, Retrospective: The Best of (180g) 
Buffalo Springfield, s/t
Bush, Razorblade Suitcase (2 x pink vinyl)
Cage the Elephant, Tell Me I’m Pretty (colour vinyl) 
Cardi B, Invasion of Privacy 
Carole King, Tapestry 
Charlie Parker, Bird in LA box 
Chris Stapleton, Starting Over (2LP) 
Cult, Electric Peace 
Cult, Sonic Temple (2LP)
Curtis Harding, If Words Were Flowers
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis
David Bowie, Hunky Dory 
DMX, The Legacy (2LP) 
Dolly Parton, Holly Dolly Christmas (red vinyl) 
Doors, 13 
Dr. Dre, The Chronic 
Dropkick Murphys, Turn Up That Dial (clear black vinyl) 
Earl Sweatshirt, Feet of Clay
Etta James, The Very Best of (2LP) 
Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2LP) 
Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin (2LP)
Fleet Foxes, s/t (with Sun Giant) 
Fleetwood Mac, Greatest Hits
Fleetwood Mac, Live (2 x 180g)
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours 
Flying Lotus, Los Angeles (2LP) 
Foo Fighters, In Your Honor 
Freddie Mercury, Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow 7-inch (pink vinyl)
George Michael, Last Christmas OST 
Grateful Dead, Best of Live: 1969-77 (2LP)
Green Day, American Idiot 
Green Day, BBC Sessions (2LP) 
Green Day, Nimrod 2LP
Grimes, Halfaxa 
Harry Styles, Fine Line 39.99 x 2 
Hiss Golden Messenger, O Come All Ye Faithful
Ice-T, Rhyme Pays (yellow vinyl)
Jack White, Acoustic Recordings (2LP) 
Jam, This is the Modern World (180g clear vinyl)
Jamie xx, In Colour 
J Cole, 2014 Forest Hill Drive
Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy
Johnny Cash, Christmas: There’ll Be Peace in the Valley 
Johnny Thunders, LAMF (The Lost 77 Mixes) 
Kate Bush, The Dreaming 
King Gizzard, KG2 
La Luz, Floating Features
La Luz, s/t 
Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence (2LP) 
Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out Door (180g) 
Led Zeppelin, IV (180g) 
Led Zeppelin, IV (deluxe 180g 2LP with studio outtakes) 
Leonard Cohen, Greatest Hits 
Leonard Cohen, You Want it Darker
Leon Bridges, Gold-Diggers Sound (alt variant cover)
Leon Bridges, Gold-Diggers Sound 
Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory 
Low, Hey What 
Mac Demarco, Here Comes the Cowboy 
Mac Demarco, Rock and Roll Night Club 
Mac Demarco, Salad Days 
Mac Demarco, This Old Dog 
Madlib and Freddie Gibbs, Pinata 
Modern Baseball, Holy Ghost (colour vinyl) 
Modest Mouse, Strangers to Ourselves 2LP 
Mountain Goats, Sunset Tree 
Muddy Waters, The Real Folk Blues 
Mustafa, When Smoke Rises 
National, High Violet (2LP) 
Neil Young, Barn 
Neil Young, Homegrown 
Neil Young, Live at Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto 
Notorious BIG, Born Again 
Oasis, What’s the Story Morning Glory 
Otis Redding, Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (blue vinyl) 
Panic at the Disco, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (silver vinyl) 
Pavement, Wowee Zowee 
Peter Tosh, Legalize It 
Phoebe Bridgers, Stranger in the Alps 
Pink Floyd, The Division Bell (2LP RE) 
Pixies, Surfer Rosa 
Pogues, If I Should Fall from Grace with God (180g) 
Pop Smoke, Shoot For the Stars Aim for the Moon 
Prince, Purple Rain (picture disc) 
PRODIGY, MUSIC FOR THE JILTED GENERATION 
Radiohead, Kid A Mnesia (3LP)
Rage Against the Machine, Evil Empire
Rage Against the Machine, Renegades 
Rage Against the Machine Battle of Los Angeles 
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raise the Roof (ltd alt art 2LP) 
Rolling Stones, Tattoo You (180g) 
Run the Jewels, IV (deluxe edition 4LP magenta & gold vinyl)
Rush, Icon (red translucent) 
Selina Gomez, Revalacion (ltd colour vinyl) 
Shins, Chutes Too Narrow 
Shins, Wincing the Night Away 
Slayer, Repentless 
Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music 
Taylor Swift, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (3LP) 
Taylor Swift, Lover (pink + blue vinyl) 
Thundercat, The Golden Age of Apocalypse (10th anniv red vinyl)
Tom Petty, wildflowers & All the Rest (3LP) 
Townes van Zandt, For the Sake of the Song 
Townes van Zandt, Live at the Old Quarter 
Tragically Hip, In Between Evolution
Tragically Hip, Road Apples 
Travis Scott, Astroworld 
Vampire Weekend, Contra 
Vampire Weekend, s/t 
Van Halen, 1984 (20th anniv 180g) 
Van Halen, Fair Warning 
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks 
Various, Filet of Soul 
Various, The Christmas Album (2LP) 
Vince Guaraldi, A Charlie Brown Christmas (green vinyl) 
Vince Guaraldi, Charlie Brown Christmas (silver foil sleeve) 
Wallows, Nothing Happens 
War on drugs, lost in the dream 
Weezer, OK Human 
Weezer, The White Album 
Weezer, Van Weezer 
White Stripes, Greatest Hits 
White Stripes, White Blood Cells
Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One 

USED:


ABBA, Voulez-Vous 
Beach Boys, Endless Summer 
Beatles, Blue Album 
Beatles, Red Album 
Beatles, Second Album 
Beatles, Sgt Peppers
Billy Joel, Piano Man 
Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding 
Bob Dylan, Slow Train Coming 
Bob Dylan, Tempest 
Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA 
Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town 
Camel, Stationary Traveler (84 CAN) 
Carole King, Tapestry 
David Bowie, ChangesTwo 
Def Leppard, Hysteria 
Duran Duran, Seven and the Ragged Tiger 
Duran Duran, s/t 
Elton John, Captain Fantastic (2 books + poster)
Elton John, Greatest Hits Vol II
Elton John Greatest Hits 
Gordon Lightfoot, Did She Mention My Name 
Gordon Lightfoot, Dream Street Rose 
Guns n Roses, GN’R Lies
Ike and Tina Turner, Live at Carnegie Hall: What You Hear is What You Get 
Jimmy Buffett, Songs You Knw By Heart: Greatest Hit(s) 
John Lennon, Two Virgins (68 CAN with original brown bag) 
Johnny Cash, At San Quentin
Joni Mitchell, Miles of Aisles 
Kraftwerk, Exceller8: The Best of 
Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy 
Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out Door
Loudon Wainwright III, Album III
Madonna, Like a Virgin
Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell 
Moody Blues, This IS 
Nana Mouskouri, Christmas with 
Neil Young, Harvest 
Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps 
Prince, Purple Rain
Queen, The Game
Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks 
Rolling Stones, Some Girls 
Rolling Stones, Tattoo You 
Steve Miller, Fly Like an Eagle (UK) 
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life 
Styx, The Grand Illusion (with poster) 
Supertramp, Breakfast in America 
Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food 
U2, The Unforgettable Fire
Various, A Very Special Christmas Vol I (1987) 
Various, The Rocky Horror Show: Original Roxy Cast 
Willie Nelson, Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) 
Willie Nelson, Pretty Paper 
ZZ Top, Tres Hombres

Friday, December 9, 2016

Jingle Bell Rocks Screening with Director Mitchell Kezin


Royal Cat Records is proud to be sponsoring a special holiday screening of the cult classic documentary Jingle Bell Rocks at the eBar December 20. This event is being put on by The Guelph Film Festival and the film's director (and star!) Mitchell Kezin will be present for a Q&A after the film. This is our favourite movie about record collecting!
Tuesday, Dec 20
7:30 pm
eBar (second floor, Bookshelf, 41 Quebec St)
In JINGLE BELL ROCKS!, director Mitchell Kezin delves into the minds of some of the world’s most legendary Christmas music fanatics and hits the road to hang with his holiday heroes – including hip hop legend Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons of RUN-D.M.C., The Flaming Lips’ frontman Wayne Coyne, filmmaker John Waters, bebopper Bob Dorough, L.A. DJ and musicologist Dr. Demento, and Calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow. In his search for the twelve best, underappreciated Christmas songs ever recorded, Kezin both asks and answers the question, “Why, when Christmas rolls around, are we still stuck cozying up with Bing Crosby under a blanket of snow?”
Equal parts social history, pop culture pilgrimage, and revealing character study, JINGLE BELL ROCKS! follows this motley crew of merry misfits as they confront the Christmas music mainstream, reinventing the seasonal soundtrack for the 21st century. With rollicking live performances, intimate interviews, and a kaleidoscope of touching and rare archive footage, JINGLE BELL ROCKS! is a cinematic sleigh-ride into the strange and sublime universe of alternative Christmas music. It’s also a mix-tape of twelve of the weirdest, wildest, most poignant Christmas songs you’ve never heard.

Sunday, December 27, 2015

RCR Boxing Day Sale



BOXING DAY SALE

ROYAL CAT RECORDS

20% OFF USED VINYL

SATURDAY ONLY

DEC 26TH 

NOON TO 5PM

Saturday, December 26, 2015

25 Holiday Records: 1 : Christmas 1979 by Wild Billy Childish


We're counting down to Christmas Day with a list of 25 records we have in the shop at Royal Cat Records! Why? Because vinyl rules!

Our last record is by a personal fave of Royal Cat and a special surprise:

#1

Christmas 1979
by Wild Billy Childish and the
     Musicians of the British Empire
Damaged Goods Records
DAMGOOD 296
2007

Billy Childish (Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, Thee Mighty Caesars) is a favourite of ours here at Royal Cat but we had no idea of this record's existence until we were given a copy as an early Christmas prezzy. Billy Childish is the keeper of the Garage Rock flame in the UK and this is a classic garage Xmas LP from that enchanted isle. We only saw Billy once, in Toronto with The Makers back in the mid-90s but he's been going strong since the late-70s.

It seems that no matter what incarnation of his band he is making music with, Childish always returns to the same basic heroes: Link Wray, The Sonics, The Who, and all of the great garage standards. Many of these are referenced on this record, with the tunes lifted from classic tracks, with new punk rock xmas lyrics pasted on top. They all rock. Some nice harmonies. Some nice feedback. Some nice spoken word intros. Perfect!

Merry F***ing Christmas To You All!

Tracklist:

Santa Claus
Christmas Lights
Knick Knack Paddywhack (Chuck It In The Bin)
Father Christmas Is Dressed In Green
A Poundland Christmas
A Quick One (Pete Townsend's Christmas)
Mistletoe
Dear Santa Claus
Comanche (Link Wray's Christmas)
Merry Christmas Fritz
Christmas Hell
Christmas 1979

Check it out:





Friday, December 25, 2015

25 Holiday Records: 2: If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues


We're counting down to Christmas Day with a list of 25 records we have in the shop at Royal Cat Records! Why? Because vinyl rules!

Our next record only has one Xmas song on it!

#2

If I Should Fall From Grace with God
by The Pogues
Rhino/Warner
1988/2015

So this is the Pogues record with "Fairytale of New York" on it. Not the only reason for buying the record, since it is one of the top 3 Pogues records and a classic of its type, but this is the reason the record is on this list. One of the least sentimental, least seasonal love songs/duets ever, it is still a work of beauty. Very punk, even if it is by a band specializing in a punk take on traditional Irish music. Here's the song!



25 Holiday Records: 3: Burl Ives Christmas Album


We're counting down to Christmas Day with a list of 25 records we have in the shop at Royal Cat Records! Why? Because vinyl rules!

This next record is by a beloved childhood favourite!

#3

Burl Ives Christmas Album
by Burl Ives
Columbia ‎– CS 9728
1968

Burl Ives is a beloved childrens entertainer who also has a great track record as a serious folk musician and dramatic actor. He is kind of the white Leadbelly in the sense that he popularized many traditional folk tunes during the 1950s and 60s folk revival and made them palatable for a middle class white audience. Most of us know him from his kids records and his turn as the Snow Man narrator in the animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tv special. He sings some classic songs on that show, none of which are included on this record. In fact, this is not the Burl Ives record you should own. It is very traditional and ballad-y, sung in a gentle boring way that lacks any of the pep or inventiveness of many of Burl's performances. 

Tracklist
A1 It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
A2 Silent Night, Holy Night
A3 O Little Town Of Bethlehem
A4 O Holy Night
A5 Happy Birthday, Jesus (A Child's Prayer)
B1 Oh What A Lucky Boy Am I
B2 Jingle Bells
B3 Santa Mouse
B4 Ava Maria
B5 The Christmas Story
B6 Medley: Thy Rebuke; Behold




25 Holiday Records: 4 : Phil Spector's A Christmas Gift For You


We're counting down to Christmas Day with a list of 25 records we have in the shop at Royal Cat Records! Why? Because vinyl rules!

Our next record is one of the all-time great Xmas albums.

#4

A Christmas Gift for You
by Producer Phil Spector and Various Artists
Phil Spector records
originally released 1963

This classic features a collection of songs by the groups and proteges Phil Spector made famous. Classic songs given the Spector "wall-of-sound" touch that, for many of us, still resonate with a modern, big-city, soulful feeling. Check it out!

Tracklist:

TacklHide Credits
A1 –Darlene Love White Christmas
Written-By – Irving Berlin
A2 –The Ronettes Frosty The Snowman
Written-By – Walter Rollins*, Steve Nelson (4)
A3 –Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans The Bells Of St. Mary
Written-By – A. Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber
A4 –The Crystals Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Written-By – Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots
A5 –The Ronettes Sleigh Ride
Written-By – Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish
A6 –Darlene Love Marshmallow World
Written-By – Carl Sigman, Peter De Rose
B1 –The Ronettes I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Written-By – Tommie Connor
B2 –The Crystals Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Written-By – Johnny Marks
B3 –Darlene Love Winter Wonderland
Written-By – Dick Smith (3), Felix Bernard
B4 –The Crystals Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
Written-By – Léon Jessel
B5 –Darlene Love Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Written-By – Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Phil Spector
B6 –Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans Here Comes Santa Claus
Written-By – Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman
B7 –Phil Spector And Artists Silent Night
Written-By – Traditional





25 Holiday Records: 5: A Very She and Him Christmas



We're counting down to Christmas Day with a list of 25 records we have in the shop at Royal Cat Records! Why? Because vinyl rules!

Our next record is a modern easy listening classic.

#5

A Very She and Him Christmas
Merge Records
MRG424
2011/2015
green vinyl!

She and Him are the light rock/folk duo made up of Matthew Stephen Ward and Zooey Deschanel. He plays guitar and sings and she plays piano and ukulele and sings. It's very sweet and pleasant. They write a lot of their own music but this is a cover/classic album of Xmas tunes. Zooey has kind of become a Christmas icon since she starred in Elf as the department store employee who falls in love with the titular Will Ferrell character, famously singing a duet of "Baby It's Cold Outside" in the shower. We like this record quite a bit. Chances are, if you hear one of these songs on the radio or a playlist this year, it will be their version.


Tracklist
The Christmas Waltz 2:37
Christmas Day 3:24
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 3:42
I'll Be Home For Christmas 2:26
Christmas Wish 2:58
Sleigh Ride 2:44
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree 2:00
Silver Bells 1:57
Baby, It's Cold Outside 2:17
Blue Christmas 3:24
Little Saint Nick 2:10
The Christmas Song 2:26


25 Holiday Records: 6: It's a Holiday Soul Party by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings




R.I.P. Sharon Jones: 1956-2016

We're counting down to Christmas Day with a list of 25 records we have in the shop at Royal Cat Records! Why? Because vinyl rules!

This next one is fast becoming a new fave!

#6

It's a Holiday Soul Party
by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Dap-Tone 
2015

What a great couple of years Sharon Jones has had. She's gone from surviving cancer to filling stadiums and she's topped it off with this great Christmas record. We sold quite a few of these this year and it looks set to take on the status of a new modern classic. There's even a Hannukah song!

Tracklist
8 Days (Of Hannukah) 3:42
Ain't No Chimneys In The Projects 2:22
White Christmas 2:17
Just Another Christmas Song 3:08
Silent Night 4:16
Big Bulbs 2:56
Please Come Home For Christmas 2:58
Funky Little Drummer Boy 3:18
Silver Bells 3:19
World Of Love 3:19
God Rest Ye Merry Gents 2:17



Thursday, December 24, 2015

25 Christmas Records: 7: Rhythm & Blues Christmas (Ace Records)



We're counting down to Christmas Day with a list of 25 records we have in the shop at Royal Cat Records! Why? Because vinyl rules!

Okay, we lied! This next record isn't on vinyl!

#7

Rhythmn & Blues Christmas
by "all your favourite stars"
Ace Records
DVCHM 1128
2006

We have been sticking to vinyl on this list but we special-ordered this disc and decided to keep a copy for ourselves. Perfect Xmas eve listening. Ace Records is the famous European label known for reissuing tons of rare rock records and 45s in cd form. Meticulously packaged and researched, all of their products are highly recommended. This Xmas compilation seems just made for us here at Royal Cat Records, with some great blues, RnB, and doowop from the likes of BB King, Lowell Fulsom, and a ton of people you may never have heard of (some are anonymous!)) but you will love it. Highlights? They are all great. Fun vocal novelties, great instrumentation, just perfect!

01
Christmas Celebration - B.B. King
02
Christmas - Smokey Wilson
03
Preview
Xmas Baby - Riff Ruffin
04
Merry Christmas Baby - Mari Jones & Johnny Moore Orch.
05
Christmas Bells - Bobby Nunn
06
Santa Claus Baby - The Voices
07
Christmas Time - The Debonaires
08
God Gave Us Christmas - Oscar McLollie & The Honey Jumpers
09
I Want You With Me Christmas - Jesse Belvin
10
I Wanna Spend Christmas With You Part 1 - Lowell Fulsom
11
I Wanna Spend Christmas With You Part 2 - Lowell Fulsom
12
Merry Xmas - Little Willie Littlefield
13
Gonna Have A Merry Xmas - The Nic Nacs
14
Crazy Santa Claus - The Debonaires
15
My Christmas Baby - Smokey Hogg
16
Christmas Blues - Sylvester Cotton
17
White/Hot Christmas - The Elves
18
Santa Claus Boogie - The Voices
19
Dig That Crazy Santa Claus - Oscar McLollie & The Honey Jumpers
20
White Christmas - Hadda Brooks


Various Artists (Fun Time) - Rhythm & Blues Christmas (MP3) - Ace Records