American Top 40 1976 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL RARE

$

366

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You are bidding on the multi-LP American Top 40 set from the week of December 25, 1976 - ULTRA RARE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!!  The show is identical to the one we sent to the archives for iHeart Radio for future airing. These are the ORIGINAL, unedited shows as they originally aired.

This is likely the rarest of all American Top 40 shows as pressings were limited to an 'on demand' basis. Since the December Saturday would fall on Christmas Day in 1976, AT40 offered a Christmas show to interested stations. What AT40 did was dust off the 1973 Christmas special with some minor edits. The show went out in an undated box (see pics) and the LPs were pressed with "All Time Christmas Countdown" instead of a date stamp (See pics). Thus, while the content is nearly identical to the 1973 show, there are edits to remove 1973 references and the like.

As far as the AT40 tape archives go, the original 1973 tape was 'sacrificed' to create this 1976 reboot. Thus, the full version of the 1973 show is only available on the LPs that were sent to radio.

40:    THE HAPPY REINDEER - DANCER, PRANCER, AND NERVOUS (1959)
39:    MARSHMALLOW WORLD - BING CROSBY (1950) (MONTAGE PLAYED WITH DARLENE LOVE'S VERSION)
38:    SANTA CLAUS IS WATCHING YOU - RAY STEVENS (1962)
37:    SANTA AND THE SATELLITE (PARTS 1 AND 2) - BUCHANAN AND GOODMAN (1957)
36:    LITTLE ALTAR BOYS - VIC DANA (1961)
35:    MERRY CHRISTMAS POLKA - ANDREWS SISTERS (1950)
34:    BABY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS - CONNIE FRANCIS (1961)
33:    LITTLE SAINT NICK - BEACH BOYS (1963)
32:    MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING - CARPENTERS (1970)
31:    SNOOPY'S CHRISTMAS - ROYAL GUARDSMEN (1967)
30:    PRETTY PAPER - ROY ORBISON
29:    SANTA BABY - EARTHA KITT (1953)
28:    MARY'S BOY CHILD - HARRY BELAFONTE (1956)
27:    I YUST GO NUTS AT CHRISTMAS - YOGI YORGESSON WITH THE JOHNNY DUFFY TRIO (1949)
26:    IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS - PERRY COMO AND THE FONTAINE SISTERS (1951)
25:    HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS - PERRY COMO
24:    CHRISTMAS IN KILARNEY - DENNIS DAY (1950)
23:    LONESONE CHRISTMAS (PART 1) - LOWELL FULSOM (1950)
22:    ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH - SPIKE JONES AND HIS CITY SLICKERS (1948)
21:    MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY - CHARLES BROWN (1948)
20:    I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS - BING CROSBY (1943) (AIRED BEACH BOYS AND ELVIS PRESLEY VERSIONS)
19:    YOU'RE ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS - FRANKIE LANE (1948) NOT PLAYED DUE TO QUALITY OF RECORD
18:    NUTTIN' FOR CHRISTMAS - BARRY GORDON WITH THE ART MOONEY ORCHESTRA (1955) ALSO A MONTAGE WITH THE FONTAINE SISTERS AND RICKY ZAHND AND THE BLUE JEANERS
17:    I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS - JIMMY BOYD (1952)
16:    ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE - BRENDA LEE (1958)
15:    HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS (DOWN SANTA CLAUS LANE) - GENE AUTRY (1947) ALSO A 1963 VERSION BY BOB B. SOXX AND THE BLUE JEANS
14:  SLEIGH RIDE - LEROY ANDERSON (1948)
13: PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS - CHARLES BROWN (1960) 12:    FROSTY THE SNOW MAN - GENE AUTRY (1950) PLAYED VERSIONS BY THE BEACH BOYS AND THE RONETTES
11:    THE CHIPMUNK SONG - DAVID SEVILLE AND THE CHIPMUNKS (1958)
10:    SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN - BING CROSBY AND THE ANDREWS SISTERS (1942) PLAYED A MONTAGE WITH VERSIONS BY BURL IVES, BING CROSBY AND THE ANDREWS SISTERS, THE FOUR SEASONS, THE JACKSON FIVE AND THE CRYSTALS
9: JINGLE BELLS - BING CROSBY AND THE ANDEWS SISTERS (1943) PLAYED A MONTAGE OF VERSIONS BY GLENN MILLER, ROGER WILLIAMS, THE DON CHARLES SINGING DOGS, AND RAY CONNIFF'S ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
8: BLUE CHRISTMAS - ELVIS PRESLEY
7: WINTER WONDERLAND - RAY CONNIFF'S ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS - PLAYED A MONTAGE OF VERSIONS BY THE ANDREWS SISTERS, PERRY COMO, RAY CONNIFF, AND DARLENE LOVE
6: SILVER BELLS - JIMMY WAKELY AND MARGARET WHITING (1950) PLAYED VERSIONS BY DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES AND BY RAY CONIFF'S ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
5: JINGLE BELL ROCK - BOBBY HELMS (1957)
4: THE CHRISTMAS SONG - NAT KING COLE (1946) ALSO PLAYED EXCERPTS OF VERSIONS BY TONY BENNETT, JOHNNY MATHIS, JOSE FELICIANO, AND THE JACKSON FIVE
3: THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY - HARRY SIMEONE CHORALE (1958)
2: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER - GENE AUTRY (1949) ALSO PLAYED A VERSION BY THE JACKSON FIVE
1: WHITE CHRISTMAS - BING CROSBY (1942)
EXTRA:   SILENT NIGHT - BING CROSBY (1935)

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