An Old-Fashioned Christmas (Bell Telephone Hour Telecasts 1959-1966) (2009) Review

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(More customer reviews)The Bell Telephone Christmas specials are right up there with Geraldine Page in Capote's A Christmas Memory, the animated Rudolph, Charlie Brown and Mister Magoo's Scrooge and innumerable others - a big part of Holiday entertainment from my childhood that I watch every holiday season. VAI has excerpted the Bell Telephone specials in this new DVD. Much as I would have loved all the Christmas specials COMPLETE in a multi-disc DVD collection, time limitations, repeated selections, missing or deteriorated video elements and music and performer clearances probably make that impossible. Still, I am looking forward to seeing and hearing these again.
An Old-Fashioned Christmas
Bell Telephone Hour Telecasts, 1959-1966
Florence Henderson (host and performer), Gianna d'Angelo, Phyllis Curtin, Lisa Della Casa, Anita Gillette, Mildred Miller, Sherrill Milnes, Giorgio Tozzi, Earl Wrightson, Bruce Yarnell, The Buffalo Bills, Brunilda Ruiz & Richard Gain.
Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra & Chorus
Donald Voorhees, conductor
Part I: CHRISTMAS THROUGH THE AGES
Telecast of December 18, 1966
1. Introduction: Joy to the World
2. In Dulci Jubilo - Sherrill Milnes
3. Mary Walks Amid the Thorn - Gianna d'Angelo
4. Young and Old Must Raise the Lay - Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
5. The Coventry Carol ("Lully, Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child") - Gianna d'Angelo
6. O Come, O Come, Emanuel - Sherrill Milnes, Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
7. O Tannenbaum - Florence Henderson, Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
8. March of the Kings ("Three Great Kings") - Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
9. The Cherry Tree Carol - Brunilda Ruiz and Richard Gain; Gianna d'Angelo and Sherrill Milnes
10. Born Is Jesus, the Infant King - Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
11. Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming - Sherrill Milnes
12. Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella - Gianna d'Angelo
13. Medley: Shepherds, Shake off Your Drowsy Sleep;
To Us Is Born a Little Child; The Three Kings - Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
14. The First Noël - Florence Henderson
15. "Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light"
from Christmas Oratorio (Bach) - Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
16. Medley: Adeste Fideles; Deck the Halls - Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
17. God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen - Bruce Yarnell
18. O Little Town of Bethlehem - Anita Gillette
19. Hark, the Herald Angels Sing - Gianna d'Angelo, Sherrill Milnes
20. Here We Come A-Wassailing - Bruce Yarnell, Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
21. The Holly and the Ivy - Anita Gillette; Brunilda Ruiz and Richard Gain,
Bell Telephone Hour Dancers
22. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Yarnell, Gillette
23. Medley: Christmas is Coming; I Saw Three Ships;
Christmas Bells - Florence Henderson, Children's Chorus
24. Away in a Manger - Florence Henderson
25. Joy to the World - Entire Cast
26. The Christmas Story (Luke 2:8-16) - Florence Henderson, Bell Telephone Hour Chorus, Soloists
27. Silent Night - Entire Cast
Part II: AN OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS
Telecast of December 23, 1962
28. Deck the Halls - Florence Henderson, Earl Wrightson, Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
29. The Christmas Song ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire")
by Robert Wells, Mel Tormé - Florence Henderson, Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
30. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
31. God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen - Buffalo Bills
32. Let it Snow, Let it Snow
By Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn - Earl Wrightson
33. Let's Have an Old-Fashioned Christmas
by Larry Conley, Joe Solomon - Florence Henderson, Earl Wrightson,
Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
34. Joy to the World - Florence Henderson, Earl Wrightson,
Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
35. O Little Town of Bethlehem - Mildred Miller
36. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Earl Wrightson, Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
37. Christmas Waltz - Florence Henderson
38. Medley: Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Gillepsie & Coots)
by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie
Be a Santa
by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green
- Buffalo Bills, Florence Henderson, Earl Wrightson,
Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
Part III: A CLASSICAL CHRISTMAS
Telecast of December 18, 1959:
39. God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen - Giorgio Tozzi, Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
40. Deck the Halls - Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
41. I Saw Three Ships - Lisa Della Casa
42. What Child is This (Greensleeves) - Giorgio Tozzi
43. The Coventry Carol ("Lully, Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child")
performed by Lisa Della Casa, Giorgio Tozzi,
Bell Telephone Hour Chorus
Telecast of December 23, 1962:
44. I Wonder as I Wander
By John Jacob Niles - Mildred Miller
45. O Leave Your Sheep - Mildred Miller
Telecast of December 24, 1963:
46. Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella - Phyllis Curtin
47. Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming - Phyllis Curtin
48. O Come, O Come, Emanuel - Phyllis Curtin
Telecast of December 22, 1964:
49. The First Noël - Phyllis Curtin
50. "Alleluja" (Mozart)- Phyllis Curtin
Telecast of December 22, 1961:
51. Jesu Bambino - Lisa Della Casa
52. "Ave Maria" (Bach/Gounod) - Lisa Della Casa
53. "Come Unto Him" from Messiah (Handel) - Lisa Della Casa
Telecast of December 18, 1959:
54. Cantique de Noël ("O Holy Night") - Lisa Della Casa


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