RARE VINTAGE CHRISTMAS ALBUM! Long before Brenda Lee began rocking around Christmas Trees, radio stations back in the late 1950s and early 1960s very likely played music along the lines of this album, "Carols for Christmas." This is a Public Domain, vintage Christmas radio show album put together by Lang-Worth Feature Programs, Inc., which was based in New York, NY. Radio Hucksters and Airlifts was evidently part of the company label. This album is one of those forgotten recordings that we occasionally come across in our yard sale finds.
SOME HISTORY: What Lang-Worth Feature Programs, Inc. did was offer radio stations this content by subscription. Rather than radio stations needing to produce all their own material, for the price of a subscription, Lang-Worth would provide it for them.
From what little we've been able to dig up about this company, Lang-Worth Feature Programs, Inc produced subscription commercials, jingles, and public domain music services to radio stations from the mid-1940s during the Second World War, and continued until probably the early 1960s.
Although we cannot find too much information about the service, it wouldn't surprise us if this was intended for smaller stations with limited budgets since the content we've found appears to be very generic.
No artists were listed because Lang-Worth did everything either from public domain sources (and this album was produced as Public Domain), or they bought the material outright. It certainly was an interesting concept in its time. Scroll down for more history.
The tracks on this album are as follows:
Side 1:
0:01 O, Come All Ye Faithful
2:00 Wassail, Wassail
3:54 The Boar's Head Carol
5:56 Dame, Get Up and Bake Your Pies
7:29 Good King Wenceslas
10:45 Deck the Hall
Side 2:
12:15 The First Noel
14:16 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
16:15 O Little Town of Bethlehem
20:03 Silent Night
23:38 Joy to the World
A fairly brief Wikipedia entry traces the company history back to 1935: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langloi....
According to Discogs, during the post-war years, the label was pressed on blue vinyl. But even Discogs has scant information about Lang-Worth. Source: https://www.discogs.com/label/144865-...
We believe the pressing you're listening to in this video was likely late 1950s - early 1960s*(see note below); however there are no markings offering any date information on the record at all. The presumed catalog number is LNY 12-4536.
To hear a sample of the commercial content Lang-Worth provided to radio stations, listen to these sound bytes from what we call the "Way Back Machine," the Internet Archive, a non-profit that is a treasure trove of information being preserved (BTW: they accept donations to keep their services free, and we support them): https://archive.org/details/LWRadioHu...
*Note on the research regarding dating the recording (If any of our viewers have additional info about this, please let us know!): If the catalog number offers any indication of the order in which these recordings were produced, the audio sample we just shared is labeled "LNY 4271" and shows the year as 1957. In another sample we located, the number "LNY 4081" had a date of 1956. So, if the company followed an ascending pattern of numbers for their catalog as they continued production, it would make sense that the pressing "LNY 12-4536" would be sometime after 1957.
Finally, we located this 1958 feature about 2 brothers associated with the venture: John Dexter Langlois, the president of Lang-Worth Feature Programs, and his brother, Cyril Ouellette Langlois, Jr. who headed up Langlois Filmusic, Inc, which provided background music for a variety of films as well as for TV commercials.
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We wish you and your loved ones the happiest of EVERYTHING this Holiday Season, and the best of health and happiness in the year - and YEARS ahead. John & Kathy
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