Various Artists - Headin' For The Christmas Ball: 14 Swing And R&B Christmas Crooners(Various Artists)A nostalgic and varied Christmas compilation, not only for the holidays, either dance able or dreamy with a mixture of swing and jazz, rhythm & blues and crooner pop! Bear Family's latest edition of 'Season's Greetings' for 2020! Nostalgic Christmas with 14 Lindy Hop Jitterbug Boogie Jive and Easy Listening rarities of the years 1947 1962! Among them the title song Christmas Ball, as well as the B side of the rare 1951 Coral single of the Georgie Auld

exploring the themes of innocence

and this substantial trawl across the first decade of his recording career readily underlines that talent

Separately

the first Indian to take his instrument in to the rock realm for real

with photos from the label archives

The Rockin' Spot is a late-night music club that plays the living end of Rock 'n' Roll

the making of the album

Costello and Billy Bragg are part of Harding's background

Kinks and others

and serve to remind US of the commonalities of human existence

and has been languishing in the vinyl pressing log jam ever since-luckily Stoltz writes timeless songs

even if they happened in timelines that have been reset