1980 MCA Records # MCA15006
(a Re-issue of MCA540) 33 RPM
LP of Harry Simeone Chorale,
Song 1 SIde 1, The Little
Drummer Boy. Again, a record
my parents had when I was a
kid. This is the original
version of this holiday
classic. I remembered the
album cover from my childhood,
but not the artist, and didnt
know how to go abo
more

1980 MCA Records # MCA15006
(a Re-issue of MCA540) 33 RPM
LP of Harry Simeone Chorale,
Song 1 SIde 1, The Little
Drummer Boy. Again, a record
my parents had when I was a
kid. This is the original
version of this holiday
classic. I remembered the
album cover from my childhood,
but not the artist, and didnt
know how to go about finding
it as an adult. What a
surprise to find it at an
antique mall for $1.00.\


More info via wikipedia:
\'The Little Drummer Boy\' is
a popular Christmas song, with
words and music by Katherine
K. Davis. Henry Onorati and
Harry Simeone have been
credited with writing the
song, even though they were
only the arrangers for their
recordings of it. The
best-known and most standard
version is by the Harry
Simeone Chorale. It is also
known as the \'Carol of the
Drum\'.

Davis first composed the words
and music for \'Carol of the
Drum\' (ostensibly transcribed
from a traditional Czech
carol) in 1941. [1] In 1957
Onorati arranged the song for
a recording by the Jack
Halloran Singers on Dot
Records. The following year
Simeone re-arranged the song
yet again and retitled it for
his Chorale's hit single
version, which was issued on
20th Fox Records' 45-121 with
a 45rpm picture sleeve, then
on their LP called Sing We Now
of Christmas, which became an
enormous bestseller. In 1963
the company, now known as 20th
Century Fox Records, retitled
and reissued their album. It
was now called The Little
Drummer Boy: A Christmas
Festival, in order to boost
sales even higher, as the
45-rpm single had continued to
be a seasonal hit.

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