Christmas Carols - Father Sydney MacEwan

Here's my first sharity for all you collectors of the odd and unusual.

Picked this up at an antique mall - couldn't resist after seeing the cover.

The quality isn't the best (especially side 2), cleaned it up best I could without ruining the audio.

The record was produced in 1956.

Here's the description from the back of the cover:

Ever since he won a singing competition during a holiday in Argyll when he was ten, Father Sydney MacEwan has been enchanting the ears of audiences all over the world with his music. He was born in Glasgow in 1909, graduated from St. Aloysius Jesuit College, Glasgow, in 1927, and then won a scholarship that took him to the Royal Academy of Music in London. In his subsequent career of personal appearances and recordings he met with immediate and record-breaking success until he made his decision to retire to the priesthood. He was ordained in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow, in 1944.
But the world was not to be completely denied his talents and as a priest he received permission to continue making records and limited personal appearances.
What more fitting repertory could there be for this man than the twelve carols he presents on this record? And who could present them better than the interpreter of whom Sir Compton MacKenzie wrote: "Every song is sung with the grace of a natural artist who has had the patience and the humility to learn his job."

Hope you all enjoy -

Track Listing:

Adeste Fideles (In Latin) 5:08
Coventry Carol 2:38
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen 3:44
O Little Town Of Bethlehem 3:21
What Child Is This? 2:32
Midst Quiet Night 2:37
Silent Night 3:10
The Infant King 3:15
The First Nowell 4:10
Good King Wenceslas 3:24
The Three Mummers 3:32
The Twelve Days of Christmas 4:06

Download album: Christmas Carols

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