From the liner-notes insert: "This group will make the top singers such as Andy Williams, and Perry Como look sick. No one can top this fine group." A repost, in a higher bitrate, and with more scans, including two liner-note inserts (in three scans). A children-making-music classic! With refreshingly pre-hip-hop percussion, to boot. My 2019 essay:
The High Spirits were a group of children from the Holy Spirit School in Whitehall, Ohio, an enclave of Columbus. The kids on this 1973 LP are third- to eighth-graders, and they were directed by Sister Carol Ann Krell. Total pop-folk, good singing, fun percussion, cool (and very natural) stereo sound--you can't miss with this one. Maybe the best LP of its type I've ever come across, and it's a local effort, to boot--about an hour's drive away. The children aren't trying to be cute, and the adults in charge haven't given them any corny material, so... no complaints.
Generic cover, but nice. I've included label and liner note scans--the typewritten liner notes were inserted into the jacket (the back is blank). I don't think they were mimeographs; probably photocopies, and of course not up to modern standards. I've included these in the zip file.
No Santa Got Drunk and Fell Off the Roof or Happy 25th, Jesus type of stuff. Just carols and a few pop Christmas standards. Totally delightful, and I keep hoping to find one or all of their other LPs As of 1973, they'd made four of them, plus a 45.
DOWNLOAD: High Spirits, Past and Present (1973)
Winter Wonderland
Sing We Noel
Go Tell It on a Mountain
Children Go
What Child Is This?
A Christmas Round
Away In a Manger
Do You Hear What I Hear?
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Silver Bells
Wassail
White Christmas
Angels We Have Heard on High
'Neath the Silent Stars
I Heard the Bells
Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
Drummer Boy
High Spirits, Past and Present--Christmas, 1973 (Mus-i-Col 101651/52, Columbus OH)
Lee
Generic cover, but nice. I've included label and liner note scans--the typewritten liner notes were inserted into the jacket (the back is blank). I don't think they were mimeographs; probably photocopies, and of course not up to modern standards. I've included these in the zip file.
No Santa Got Drunk and Fell Off the Roof or Happy 25th, Jesus type of stuff. Just carols and a few pop Christmas standards. Totally delightful, and I keep hoping to find one or all of their other LPs As of 1973, they'd made four of them, plus a 45.
DOWNLOAD: High Spirits, Past and Present (1973)
Winter Wonderland
Sing We Noel
Go Tell It on a Mountain
Children Go
What Child Is This?
A Christmas Round
Away In a Manger
Do You Hear What I Hear?
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Silver Bells
Wassail
White Christmas
Angels We Have Heard on High
'Neath the Silent Stars
I Heard the Bells
Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
Drummer Boy
High Spirits, Past and Present--Christmas, 1973 (Mus-i-Col 101651/52, Columbus OH)
Lee
2 comments:
Hey Lee,
What a nice post to wake up to this morning. This album is very good. Glad you shared it. I wonder how many children are in the Choir? It is too bad they did not give more information about this. Also, who played the instruments, etc. Probably another item that was sold at various places: at the church, door to door, in front of a store, maybe at the local shopping mall, or even at their annual Christmas fair. I hope they were able to sell a lot of them. They deserve to have made great sales from their effort.
Thanks for the re-post, Lee! Someone needs to document the instances of these generic covers, but I say that every year. :)
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