What were our forum members listening to in 2017? What made the biggest impression? Find out in our forum thread! If you have some of your own, you’re welcome to join up and post your own Top 5. And if you have a couple of honorable mentions, include those as well.
Happy New Year from A&M Corner!
A perennial favorite of A&M Records fans and collectors, ¡Something Festive! drew upon the 60s A&M catalog for ten unique takes on Christmas and winter holiday classics. For our followers, fans, forum members and friends around the world, we are offering the full album here for your holiday streaming pleasure! This is our “expanded edition” which features twelve additional A&M tracks pulled from numerous sources. Our “extras” include tracks by Shawn Phillips, Wes Montgomery, Miguel Rios, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, and Carpenters, along with a bonus single-only release by Claudine Longet. Tracks are captioned with song and artist information. Enjoy, and have a happy holiday season…whichever way you celebrate it!
Granted it’s a bit of a stretch, but let’s run with a Winter-themed tune today. It’s cold, it’s snowing…so why not? This is a track originally recorded by Felice Taylor in 1967 called “It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart, It’s Spring).” The group Love Unlimited redid the tune in 1973. From the long song title, you may have guessed the tune’s composer–Barry White. White had recorded a handful of albums for A&M back in the day, and Love Unlimited was his “girl group” that he also produced for, backed by the Love Unlimited Orchestra (which would have a Billboard #1 instrumental hit with “Love’s Theme”). White of course had plenty of hits on his own.
Formerly of IRS Records’ The Damned, here is Captain Sensible’s “One Christmas Catalogue” as today’s holiday feature.
Offered as a bonus cassette through Target stores with her A&M Home For Christmas album, “Let The Season Take Wing” is today’s A&M rarity. Thanks to our good pal Harry for the digital transfer!
From the third A Very Special Christmas CD comes Sting’s take on the traditional “I Saw Three Ships.”
