9 Days of Xmas: Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops - "Pops Christmas Party" (1959)

Arthur Fielder & the Boston Pops - "Pops Christmas Party" (1959) - RCA

Hello Friends,

Pahk you ahse up at the tiki bah fahr another egg nawg 'cuz we got the bawstan pawps ahn!  Don't make me cahm ova there!

"Holy Holidays Batman.. Something just popped up!"
(Yvonne Craig)

Arthah Fiedlah condahcted the pawps for like 50 yeahs.  Released in 1959, Christmas Pawps Pahty is the first of several Pawps LPs dedicated to pahrennial hawliday favorites.  The music is fahmiliar, done up and ahranged in a lite-classical, pawps style.   Its the perfect pahty album if yaah tryin' to keep things clahssy!

Its bahmbastic in ahl the right pahts, especially on their now pretty famous take on the Leroy Andersawn's "Sleigh Ride".  Nawt only that, but its the quietah moments that really stand out... like Alfred Krips' violin solo on "White Christmas" or the nine minute, "Dream Pantomime" from Humperdinck's Hansal & Gretel.   Now thaht's some sublime cahnducting if you ahsk me!

Nawt to mention the sauhcey brunette ahn the covah!    Man, I'd invite her to my pawps pahty any day! How'dya like dem apples? 

Go Sawx!

RATING: 5 Arthur Fiedler mustaches out of 5