This has always been my favorite Christmas album, and its on high rotation ever year. Im gratified to see im not the only one ;) Fav song- This is that time if the year - Jack Jones.....Merry Christmas 2024 to all!!!
I was just a kid back in the 60's, but lord, that brings back so many memories of our get togethers, sadly many of my family are gone, but memories last forever
Back in the early 60's my father worked for a local tire company and walking into the store, those albums were packed on carousels, and they were free with any purchase of tires or service........ My father would bring some albums home and we played them for hours on end. Great holiday memories, great years. For those of us lucky enough to have lived in those times, the younger generations could not imagine how good those years were, compared to today's times. You don't know what you've had till it's gone! At least we could still enjoy those albums today.
So many of the young have become like a cancer bent on the destruction of a great country. They claim that almost every husband was an abuser and every wife wanted to go to work but was forced to stay home. That's not how I remember it. The wives were _glad_ to stay home and their houses were clean. They got to relax and bake for the holidays and decorate. They had their hair done and were home when the kids stepped off the bus. Their men, on the other hand, were a little bit grouchy sometimes, napping and looked put upon with the weight of the world on their shoulders. The yards were kept mowed and no one rented. No one was abused and dammit, the wives DID NOT want to go to work all day. They liked being around the house. Women used to outlive men, but now women under 40 have higher heart attack rates than men. I remember the wives going to each other's homes during the day for coffee. Some sold Avon or Tupperware. None even went out and got part time jobs because going to work sucks. We all know it sucks. Going in with your menses or preg sucks. Going in when you have dozens of cookies or several pies to back sucks. Coming home and cleaning and cooking sucks. It really does. Housewifery, if done properly with home cooked meals including peeling and slicing carrots, is a full time job. It's time consuming if done well and healthfully. Anyway, I'm just mad right now about everything changing faster and faster.
I would lay on the floor next to the console and listen to these incredible Christmas Albums in the 60s. They are a critical component to my magical sense of what Christmas is. Thank you for posting!
Lost my Dad back in October. He was 93. Listening to these Firestone albums heading straight back to my childhood home. So excited for Christmas. Thanks sorrowfulfower. Peace to all
Listening to Roberta Peters on this record as a little girl is the reason I became an opera singer. And I sing the same fach (roles/range) as her! LOVE.
We got this album right after my Dad got back from Viet Nam. It was the best Christmas ever!! We looked forward to listening to this for many years. Thanks for posting!!❤️
I concur wholeheartedly. Recent holiday songs like "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" simply don't measure up to the Christmas classics.
I love hearing this again. I'm back home as a child anxiously waiting for Christmas Day. To this day, I still love Christmas decorations and music over everything else. Thank you for posting this!
It makes me so happy to know that these wonderful albums bring back such precious memories for you and others, Jim! Listening to them is so comforting. Thanks so much for your wonderful comments, my friend! Merry, merry Christmas to you and your lovely family :))
Firestone's second-to-last Xmas LP is a gem! Roberta Peters offers a profoundly moving "First Noel" and displays her coloratura skills on "Alleluia', Jack Jones and the Vienna Boys Choir sing superbly, and the Firestone Choir and Orchestra(under the baton of Irwin Kostal) are a delight. All in all, a great album. Incidentally, it's the only Firestone Christmas album that doesn't include "Joy To The World"!
I still my parents copies of this and the Goodyear Christmas albums. I listen to this music EVERY CHRISTMAS season!!!! This year, in 2021, I longed for Christmas music so badly, that I began listening to it in September. I wear my earbuds, as not to offend anyone (it may be too early for them.) They may not want it, but I have a huge smile on my face while listening!!!!
This album was the official start of Christmas for me and my siblings. Especially Jack Jones's This is that time of the year. My parents still have the record but this is so much better quality as we wore it out. Thank you so much for posting it. I'm sure that every year more and more people find this and are taken back to a time they fondly remember.
It's great to hear this again. I guess you could say I grew up with these albums as my father was Richard M Bradshaw, supervisor of production. See the credits on the back of the album. In fact, I met Julie Andrews on a trip to the studio one memorable day in 1965.
What a wonderful memory, Richard! Your dad was involved with something very special. I'm always amazed by how many people love these albums. Thank you so much for your wonderful comments! Merry Christmas :))
I'm a professional musician and now listening to this as an adult the production was so pristinely done. There was clearly great pride taken in the production of these beautiful Christmas tracks. Orchestrally and the musical choices are all very special!
What a memorable experience. Julie Andrews was a part of everyone's childhood if you grew up in the 1960s/1970s. Wonderful memories for you and for me even though I never had the good fortune to meet Julie Andrews. Blessings and Merry Merry . . .
Love the old Firestone Albums. this one is my favorite of them all. I remember every year going with my father to buy the snow tires, and getting the album lol. We would start playing all the previous years on Thanksgiving Day along with other Christmas albums, and save the newest for Christmas morning.
I had this album when I was young. Don't know what happened to it. I always loved it. So happy to see it here, it's like journeying to a beloved place.
These albums were packed away all year, when they came out you knew it was really Christmas. I remember getting the new one each year, my dad was always so proud to bring it home to show mom. Those were great times, would love to go back and do it all over again.
I'm so grateful to have found this online. It was one of my families' favorite records. Most of my family is gone, but this brought back wonderful warm memories. This is priceless!
+Val Cameron One of my family's favorites, too! I'm gad you found it and that it brought back some warm memories. Thanks for watching and commenting :))
Yes. My words too..could cry my head off but WONDERFUL memories!! Such a magical time..now Daddy gone inJuly...but this helps live it ...Lord's birthday
This album and its selection of songs brings back wonderful childhood memories for me when my mother would play these records on our Motorola console record player. I still remember Jack Jones' "This is that time of the year" vividly, along with the Vienna Boys Choir. These records are priceless in their quality and the sweet childhood memories they evoke are beyond comparison. Thank you so much for posting these albums!
Thank you. I bought this cd about ten years ago off an internet site after proving I had the album. Then I gave it to my brother because he loved it so much. My family played these over and over.
Thanks for adding these. My mother had several of these records and she would play them on her record stereo (the kind that looked like a piece of furniture) while we decorated the house for Christmas. Listening brings back wonderful memories of growing up in the 70's and early 80's. Sadly, I lost my mother this Thanksgiving.
So many childhood memories are encased in these "Firestone" Christmas albums. Thank you so much for posting these and helping to preserve Christmas...somehow it isn't Christmas without these Christmas carols.
+Digitalbcon I feel the same way--listening to these albums (a must, every year) takes me back to some very happy times. Thanks for listening and commenting :))
Very cool that one can just search and be listening to these classics in seconds. I grew up with these also. Every time I hear "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts.....") it still take me back to Julie Andrews' version, the first one I heard of that song.
Mr. Sack, I enjoyed JA's version of "The Xmas Song" too. It was the first time I heard it with lyrics; I'd previously heard an instrumental recording of the song by the Singer Orchestra.
I'm so happy I found this. I remember listening to it as a boy(in the '70s) and listening to Roberta Peters singing the Mozart. I had no idea, at the age of nine that it was one of the most well-known pieces in all of the vocal repertoire nor did I know who Roberta Peters was. Imagine my surprise and shock when I found out years later that she was one of the most famous coloratura sopranos of her day. (N.B. Roberta Peters sang the rôle of Oscar in the January, 1955 Met production of Verdi's A Masked Ball. This same production featured Marian Anderson in the rôle of Ulrica which marked the beginning of integration of The Met.)
As a teen, I used to practice singing w her "Alleluia" and when our top choir was learning The Messiah, I was the only soprano who knew it already! I was not a coloratura and too young, a professor sang that part but I was proud I knew it because of this album!
We somehow ended up with just this one album in the late 60's. I enjoyed it very much because it was a serious attempt to reach out to people by the Firestone Tire Corp. I liked Jack Jones' singing. Thanks for posting the video...memories are made of this.
Grew up in Michigan with these and Chrysler albums. Love the "Crackle". 😱🤔😂. Auntie was a Top Exc @ Chrysler's. And they gave these as a Promotion if you got a Chrysler and Firestone tires. @ Christmas time .
My maternal grandfather made a reel-to-reel recording of his favorite Christmas music for my parents back in the 1970s, which included some of the Firestone albums. We listened to this every Christmas during my childhood, but the tape always ran out right before 'This is That Time of the Year' ended, so I never knew how it ended. Now, thanks to your post on UA-cam, I've finally heard the ending of that song for the first time in 38 years, so thank you!
+Sara Stromseth-Troy That's one of my very favorites on this album, Sara, I'm glad you were finally able to hear the entire thing! Thanks for watching and commenting :))
+James Hall I feel the same way, James. All the albums are wonderful, but this is the one that brings back the strongest and happiest memories. Thanks for listening and commenting! Happy New Year :))
70's and 80's fond Christmas memories with this album..thank you for posting! It totally takes me back to those days when Christmas was a magical time for a little kid ❤️
Just Fantastic is all I can say, Heather! 1967...my Dad picked this album up from the neighborhood Firestone store and we played it all through the Christmas season. Many precious memories brought back by hearing these wonderful songs again. Thank You So Much and Merry Christmas to You! Jim
Thank you so much for posting this! It wasn't on UA-cam when I looked about two years ago, and I can't tell you how thrilled I am to find it now! When I was a child this was one of the albums that played continuously during the weeks before Christmas and it just seems like the way Christmas is "supposed to" sound. Thanks again so very much for uploading!
I grew up with these albums - Thanks for the memories - Back to a simpler time! The Firestone Christmas Series and the BF Goodrich Christmas series records we played over and over again waiting to Christmas to arrive... Thank You!
I don't think we ever had this ability, but I remember having Andy Williams and Perry Como Christmas albums, and my favorite, my mother's 'Sing Along With Mitch ( Miller ), with them sitting in front of Christmas tree. The Albion even came with extra pages of lyrics to hand out, to have your own sing-a-long!
I was looking for This is That Time of The Year and stumbled on our blue Firestone Christmas album from the 60's! Lost long ago in one of many moves- it is so wonderful to hear it again! Thank you so much for putting this online. This is very special :) Happy New Year!
I love the internet. This is what the internet was made for. Right here. Like so many others, this was the soundtrack at Christmas for me. I'm sure my mom still has the albums somewhere. Thanks for posting. I'm totally gonna rock this Playlist this year :) that's an oxymoron, but you get my drift.
Thank you for posting this. I remember the album cover and Firestone name on it but couldn't find it posted anywhere online. Now I have it to listen to. It warms my heart with the memories of growing up in the 1960s. We didn't have TV so we listened and wore out a lot of records.
Dang. Seems like Yesterday. We had every one of these albums, and a console stereo the size of a smart car LOL. Every year... Down to Firestone Tire the day they got the albums in, Buy the snow tires, go eat at the mom and pop version of Denny's, to the "mall" (about 20 stores) for the picture with Santa (2.00! Highway Robbery!!). In a really dark childhood, these albums were light.
Loved this album when I was growing up. We played this record when we would put up the tree. God bless you for putting this on youtube for my siblings and me, such precious memories!
this was definitely the best of all the Firestone albums...Great memories of my childhood... I just learned Dance of the Christmas Doll on our old Janssen upright piano...
"Dance Of The Christmas Doll" is a charming instrumental number that sadly never became a standard. The song is brilliantly performed by pianist Bernie Leighton, conductor Irwin Kostal and the Firestone Orchestra.
Thanks so much. I grew up on this as well and it's what sounds like christmas to me. The actual album is at me parent's place 500 kms away. So this is great!
Yeah,when I was a kid my dad brought home a Zennith Stero player from s department store.Volum 5&6 Firestone were included.playrd all the time.l hot a kick out of one of Jack Jones songs because my last name was in it. Merry Christmas.
Thank you so much for the upload. We had this vinyl when I was young and to this day, this Jack Jones version of O Holy Town of Bethlehem is STILL my favorite one. :)
yagsfan I'm so glad you enjoyed it! This album was always my very favorite one, and I love Jack Jones' version of everything on it. Thanks so much for listening and commenting! Merry Christmas :))
Do you remember the glasses you could buy with the album? We never had a full set because I would break half before the next year while singing and washing dishes. Merry Christmas to all!!!
Wow, this is spectacular!! Thank you for sharing this album, it is the only one that my parents did not have. I remember loving the Julie Andrews Firestone Christmas albums.
Yes, yes thank you! This is one of my all time favorite albums. My mom was a fourth grade teacher and took it to school and lost it! I was heartbroken. Decades later found it at a used book store, but had no way to listen to it in digital -- until now. Thank you for converting it and uploading. You are a saint. Thanks for this awesome Christmas present. Have a wonderful holiday.
This was always my very favorite, too! I'm SO glad you found it. I'm always amazed at all the people who loved these Firestone albums as much as we did. Your wonderful comments have really made my day, thank you! I hope you have a wonderful holiday, too :))
TheSorrowfulFlower Hello again. I'm just now seeing your reply. For some reason I thought about this album today and wanted to make sure it is still here. Thank goodness. I remember going with my dad to our local Firestone dealership just to buy the Christmas albums. These albums remind me of him and of all the wonderful Christmas' we spent together. This particular one with Jack Jones I love so much I play it even when it isn't Christmas. My family is just used to it by now! Again, many, many thanks to you.
This has always been my favorite Christmas album, and its on high rotation ever year. Im gratified to see im not the only one ;)
Fav song- This is that time if the year - Jack Jones.....Merry Christmas 2024 to all!!!
I was just a kid back in the 60's, but lord, that brings back so many memories of our get togethers, sadly many of my family are gone, but memories last forever
Back in the early 60's my father worked for a local tire company and walking into the store, those albums were packed on carousels, and they were free with any purchase of tires or service........ My father would bring some albums home and we played them for hours on end. Great holiday memories, great years. For those of us lucky enough to have lived in those times, the younger generations could not imagine how good those years were, compared to today's times. You don't know what you've had till it's gone! At least we could still enjoy those albums today.
Lovely!!
Amen
So many of the young have become like a cancer bent on the destruction of a great country. They claim that almost every husband was an abuser and every wife wanted to go to work but was forced to stay home. That's not how I remember it. The wives were _glad_ to stay home and their houses were clean. They got to relax and bake for the holidays and decorate. They had their hair done and were home when the kids stepped off the bus. Their men, on the other hand, were a little bit grouchy sometimes, napping and looked put upon with the weight of the world on their shoulders. The yards were kept mowed and no one rented. No one was abused and dammit, the wives DID NOT want to go to work all day. They liked being around the house. Women used to outlive men, but now women under 40 have higher heart attack rates than men. I remember the wives going to each other's homes during the day for coffee. Some sold Avon or Tupperware. None even went out and got part time jobs because going to work sucks. We all know it sucks. Going in with your menses or preg sucks. Going in when you have dozens of cookies or several pies to back sucks. Coming home and cleaning and cooking sucks. It really does. Housewifery, if done properly with home cooked meals including peeling and slicing carrots, is a full time job. It's time consuming if done well and healthfully. Anyway, I'm just mad right now about everything changing faster and faster.
Thought this was gone forever...now this...what an unexpected, glorious Christmas gift!
I would lay on the floor next to the console and listen to these incredible Christmas Albums in the 60s. They are a critical component to my magical sense of what Christmas is. Thank you for posting!
I did the same thing, I love these albums and the memories....and I'm even an atheist.
Me too 🥰🎄
Lost my Dad back in October. He was 93. Listening to these Firestone albums heading straight back to my childhood home. So excited for Christmas. Thanks sorrowfulfower. Peace to all
I’m sorry for your loss ❤
Listening to Roberta Peters on this record as a little girl is the reason I became an opera singer. And I sing the same fach (roles/range) as her! LOVE.
In other words, you're a lyric/coloratura soprano!
We got this album right after my Dad got back from Viet Nam. It was the best Christmas ever!! We looked forward to listening to this for many years. Thanks for posting!!❤️
These songs are just precious. The songs nowadays can't compare in any way♥️🎄❤
I concur wholeheartedly. Recent holiday songs like "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" simply don't measure up to the Christmas classics.
When you hear this music. How can anyone doubt that there isn't a God?
I love hearing this again. I'm back home as a child anxiously waiting for Christmas Day. To this day, I still love Christmas decorations and music over everything else. Thank you for posting this!
It makes me so happy to know that these wonderful albums bring back such precious memories for you and others, Jim! Listening to them is so comforting. Thanks so much for your wonderful comments, my friend! Merry, merry Christmas to you and your lovely family :))
Firestone's second-to-last Xmas LP is a gem! Roberta Peters offers a profoundly moving "First Noel" and displays her coloratura skills on "Alleluia', Jack Jones and the Vienna Boys Choir sing superbly, and the Firestone Choir and Orchestra(under the baton of Irwin Kostal) are a delight. All in all, a great album. Incidentally, it's the only Firestone Christmas album that doesn't include "Joy To The World"!
“This is that Time of the Year” is one of my very favorites!
I still my parents copies of this and the Goodyear Christmas albums. I listen to this music EVERY CHRISTMAS season!!!! This year, in 2021, I longed for Christmas music so badly, that I began listening to it in September. I wear my earbuds, as not to offend anyone (it may be too early for them.) They may not want it, but I have a huge smile on my face while listening!!!!
Your comments made me smile! We also enjoyed these wonderful albums growing up. Merry Christmas!
My siblings and I grew up with these! It’s not Christmas without them! Still have the albums. (My Dad brought them home way back when.)
This album was the official start of Christmas for me and my siblings. Especially Jack Jones's This is that time of the year. My parents still have the record but this is so much better quality as we wore it out. Thank you so much for posting it. I'm sure that every year more and more people find this and are taken back to a time they fondly remember.
Rest in peace, Jack Jones.
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I adore these Firestone Christmas albums - they take me right back to the 1960s and being a kid. This is my Christmas soundtrack!
+Dani Brown My Christmas soundtrack, too, Dani! They take me back to the 80's and some very happy times. Thanks for watching and commenting :))
Them and the Goodyears!
Thank you so much for posting these albums. I was born in 1961 and they are the heart of my Christmas memories.
It's great to hear this again. I guess you could say I grew up with these albums as my father was Richard M Bradshaw, supervisor of production. See the credits on the back of the album. In fact, I met Julie Andrews on a trip to the studio one memorable day in 1965.
What a wonderful memory, Richard! Your dad was involved with something very special. I'm always amazed by how many people love these albums. Thank you so much for your wonderful comments! Merry Christmas :))
I'm a professional musician and now listening to this as an adult the production was so pristinely done. There was clearly great pride taken in the production of these beautiful Christmas tracks. Orchestrally and the musical choices are all very special!
What a memorable experience. Julie Andrews was a part of everyone's childhood if you grew up in the 1960s/1970s. Wonderful memories for you and for me even though I never had the good fortune to meet Julie Andrews. Blessings and Merry Merry . . .
How WONDERFUL!!
That is awesome!
Love the old Firestone Albums. this one is my favorite of them all. I remember every year going with my father to buy the snow tires, and getting the album lol. We would start playing all the previous years on Thanksgiving Day along with other Christmas albums, and save the newest for Christmas morning.
I had this album when I was young. Don't know what happened to it. I always loved it. So happy to see it here, it's like journeying to a beloved place.
These albums were packed away all year, when they came out you knew it was really Christmas. I remember getting the new one each year, my dad was always so proud to bring it home to show mom. Those were great times, would love to go back and do it all over again.
Wonderful memories, Connor! Thanks for listening and commenting :))
I have this album. Jack Jones' This is That Time of the Year is my favorite!
I'm so grateful to have found this online. It was one of my families' favorite records. Most of my family is gone, but this brought back wonderful warm memories. This is priceless!
+Val Cameron One of my family's favorites, too! I'm gad you found it and that it brought back some warm memories. Thanks for watching and commenting :))
I know exactly how you feel . . . God Bless and the Merriest of Christmases to you . . .
Me TOO! I remembered the album cover clicked play and immediately felt warm fuzzies all over. Merry Christmas to ALL!!! And a Happy New Year :-)
Yes. My words too..could cry my head off but WONDERFUL memories!! Such a magical time..now Daddy gone inJuly...but this helps live it ...Lord's birthday
Oh my goodness!!! I GREW UP LISTENING TO THIS ALBUM!!!!
I have tears in my eyes.. I loved hearing this at Christmas time. How I miss those simpler days. Thanks for posting this album
You're welcome! I love listening to these, too. Thanks so much for commenting! Merry Christmas :)
I believe everybody misses the days in which Christmas wasn't as commercialized as it is now.
Sadly, the birthday of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has become the most overcommercialized holiday of all time.
This album and its selection of songs brings back wonderful childhood memories for me when my mother would play these records on our Motorola console record player. I still remember Jack Jones' "This is that time of the year" vividly, along with the Vienna Boys Choir. These records are priceless in their quality and the sweet childhood memories they evoke are beyond comparison. Thank you so much for posting these albums!
I couldn't agree more about the sweet childhood memories, Curt! Thanks for listening and commenting. Happy New Year!
"This Is That Time Of The Year" was cowritten by Martin Charnin, who also cowrote Broadway musicals such as 'Annie'.
I love hearing the choir boys singing in English with those accents. It's adorable!!
I remember my parents buying these at the gas station! Back when there were no stores at gas stations....
OMG, I'd forgotten, that's where our dad got ours!
Thank you. I bought this cd about ten years ago off an internet site after proving I had the album. Then I gave it to my brother because he loved it so much. My family played these over and over.
Thanks for adding these. My mother had several of these records and she would play them on her record stereo (the kind that looked like a piece of furniture) while we decorated the house for Christmas. Listening brings back wonderful memories of growing up in the 70's and early 80's. Sadly, I lost my mother this Thanksgiving.
I have searched thrift stores for these & almost have the complete set! Wonderful music & memories!
Thank you for sharing. I love these old Christmas albums.
I remembered the album cover clicked play and immediately felt warm fuzzies all over. Merry Christmas to ALL!!! And a Happy New Year :-)
Praise the Lord - through His Son - Jesus Christ - Merry Christmas to one and all, from the Philippines.. (23rd day of December, 2019
So many childhood memories are encased in these "Firestone" Christmas albums. Thank you so much for posting these and helping to preserve Christmas...somehow it isn't Christmas without these Christmas carols.
+Digitalbcon I feel the same way--listening to these albums (a must, every year) takes me back to some very happy times. Thanks for listening and commenting :))
My parents had these albums. I love to listen to them as a child! So glad to hear it again!
Very cool that one can just search and be listening to these classics in seconds. I grew up with these also. Every time I hear "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts.....") it still take me back to Julie Andrews' version, the first one I heard of that song.
Mr. Sack, I enjoyed JA's version of "The Xmas Song" too. It was the first time I heard it with lyrics; I'd previously heard an instrumental recording of the song by the Singer Orchestra.
Definite brings back very fond memories. ❤️
I'm so happy I found this. I remember listening to it as a boy(in the '70s) and listening to Roberta Peters singing the Mozart. I had no idea, at the age of nine that it was one of the most well-known pieces in all of the vocal repertoire nor did I know who Roberta Peters was. Imagine my surprise and shock when I found out years later that she was one of the most famous coloratura sopranos of her day. (N.B. Roberta Peters sang the rôle of Oscar in the January, 1955 Met production of Verdi's A Masked Ball. This same production featured Marian Anderson in the rôle of Ulrica which marked the beginning of integration of The Met.)
As a teen, I used to practice singing w her "Alleluia" and when our top choir was learning The Messiah, I was the only soprano who knew it already! I was not a coloratura and too young, a professor sang that part but I was proud I knew it because of this album!
Roberta made her Met debut as Zerlina in DON GIOVANNI, and she also sang the Queen of the Night in THE MAGIC FLUTE.
We had these albums when I was a child. I loved them so much! That you for posting it.
I loved them growing up, too! Thanks for listening and commenting :))
This was the best of all Firestone albums and one of my favorite Christmas albums of all time.
I feel the same way, Scott. Thanks for listening and commenting :))
Excellent recording of all time favorites for Christmas! Thanks for keeping the traditional taste audiences love!
I remember these from when I was child. Thank for sharing this
We had this album when i was little , love it!
We somehow ended up with just this one album in the late 60's. I enjoyed it very much because it was a serious attempt to reach out to people by the Firestone Tire Corp. I liked Jack Jones' singing. Thanks for posting the video...memories are made of this.
One of the favourite Christmas albums from childhood. Thnk you very much for posting this.
This was my favorite album from childhood, too. Thanks for listening and commenting :))
Herr Burgermeistier...LOL! I get the reference!
Thank You So Very Much, for No Commercials ! Blessings to You !
This brings back memories. My family owned a tire store and my parents had a number of these albums. Thank you for sharing it.
You're welcome! I'm glad it brought back memories, it does for me, too. Thanks for commenting! Merry Christmas :)
Jack Jones song this is that time of the year is my all time favorite CHRISTmas song.
Bob Beach mine too.
God Bless You for posting! My folks had this album and listened to it. Have been trying to create a Spotify playlist of these from memory.
Thank you, Lori! So glad you're enjoying it. Thanks for listening and commenting :))
My kids loved this album. Brings back great memories of playing music while decorating the house and the Christmas tree.
Grew up in Michigan with these and Chrysler albums. Love the "Crackle". 😱🤔😂. Auntie was a Top Exc @ Chrysler's. And they gave these as a Promotion if you got a Chrysler and Firestone tires. @ Christmas time .
And this is a particularly christmassy one
Oh yay!!!! I grew up listening to this album.
My maternal grandfather made a reel-to-reel recording of his favorite Christmas music for my parents back in the 1970s, which included some of the Firestone albums. We listened to this every Christmas during my childhood, but the tape always ran out right before 'This is That Time of the Year' ended, so I never knew how it ended. Now, thanks to your post on UA-cam, I've finally heard the ending of that song for the first time in 38 years, so thank you!
+Sara Stromseth-Troy That's one of my very favorites on this album, Sara, I'm glad you were finally able to hear the entire thing! Thanks for watching and commenting :))
¡Qué bueno que todavía hay personas que promuevan la música navideña tradicional, tan escasa en estos tiempos! Excelente albúm dsicográfico
It's 22nd day of January 2017, and the spirit of Christmas is hard to discard, am still enjoying the songs of the holiday season.
Thanks SorrowfulFlower for the memories. It's great to be able to play them without changing the records!!
My pleasure! Ha! Great point--that had to be done way too often! Thanks for commenting :))
This album is the best audio memory of my family's Christmas celebrations from the late '60's through the 80's. Thank you so much for posting this
+James Hall I feel the same way, James. All the albums are wonderful, but this is the one that brings back the strongest and happiest memories. Thanks for listening and commenting! Happy New Year :))
Thank you so much for putting this album up! This was a treasured part of our family Christmas in the 69's
+Patti Hayes It was a treasured part of our family Christmases, too, in the 80's. Thanks so much for commenting :))
70's and 80's fond Christmas memories with this album..thank you for posting! It totally takes me back to those days when Christmas was a magical time for a little kid ❤️
+Fabiana Lopez Takes me back to around the same time--it WAS a magical time then! Thanks for listening and commenting. Merry Christmas!
Wish I could get this on CD
Just Fantastic is all I can say, Heather! 1967...my Dad picked this album up from the neighborhood Firestone store and we played it all through the Christmas season. Many precious memories brought back by hearing these wonderful songs again. Thank You So Much and Merry Christmas to You!
Jim
Thank you so much for posting this! It wasn't on UA-cam when I looked about two years ago, and I can't tell you how thrilled I am to find it now! When I was a child this was one of the albums that played continuously during the weeks before Christmas and it just seems like the way Christmas is "supposed to" sound. Thanks again so very much for uploading!
My pleasure, Valerie! I agree with you, this is the sound of Christmas to me, too. Thanks so much for listening and for your wonderful comments :))
I grew up with these albums - Thanks for the memories - Back to a simpler time! The Firestone Christmas Series and the BF Goodrich Christmas series records we played over and over again waiting to Christmas to arrive... Thank You!
+jill wood I'm glad you're enjoying them! I've just recently discovered the Goodrich albums. Thanks for listening and commenting :))
I don't think we ever had this ability, but I remember having Andy Williams and Perry Como Christmas albums, and my favorite, my mother's 'Sing Along With Mitch ( Miller ), with them sitting in front of Christmas tree. The Albion even came with extra pages of lyrics to hand out, to have your own sing-a-long!
One of my childhood favorites. Thanks for posting
So wonderful! I love hearing all the pops from the record too...that adds to the memories!
My favorite volume 6.
Dad got was kid
Whole family liked this record..
Got when I was a kid.
Volume four also.
I was looking for This is That Time of The Year and stumbled on our blue Firestone Christmas album from the 60's! Lost long ago in one of many moves- it is so wonderful to hear it again! Thank you so much for putting this online. This is very special :) Happy New Year!
I love the internet. This is what the internet was made for. Right here. Like so many others, this was the soundtrack at Christmas for me. I'm sure my mom still has the albums somewhere. Thanks for posting. I'm totally gonna rock this Playlist this year :) that's an oxymoron, but you get my drift.
My Christmas soundtrack, too! Thanks for listening and commenting :)
Thank you for posting this. I remember the album cover and Firestone name on it but couldn't find it posted anywhere online. Now I have it to listen to. It warms my heart with the memories of growing up in the 1960s. We didn't have TV so we listened and wore out a lot of records.
Dang. Seems like Yesterday. We had every one of these albums, and a console stereo the size of a smart car LOL. Every year... Down to Firestone Tire the day they got the albums in, Buy the snow tires, go eat at the mom and pop version of Denny's, to the "mall" (about 20 stores) for the picture with Santa (2.00! Highway Robbery!!). In a really dark childhood, these albums were light.
I loved these releases. I even like the 'crackle and pop' of the album as it plays. Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for listening and commenting :))
I not only love this because the music reminds me of my childhood, but because you can hear the crackle of the lp. I miss vinyl.
Loved this album when I was growing up. We played this record when we would put up the tree. God bless you for putting this on youtube for my siblings and me, such precious memories!
It brings back precious memories for me, too! Thanks so much for your wonderful comments! Merry Christmas :))
I would sit in front of the stereo and listen to this over and over , I love how you can here the record playing , just as it used to be !
I grew up listening to these wonderful records!
I grew up with them too!!!
this was definitely the best of all the Firestone albums...Great memories of my childhood... I just learned Dance of the Christmas Doll on our old Janssen upright piano...
"Dance Of The Christmas Doll" is a charming instrumental number that sadly never became a standard. The song is brilliantly performed by pianist Bernie Leighton, conductor Irwin Kostal and the Firestone Orchestra.
Thanks for putting this out there. Great memories. The fact that I can hear the record pin makes it even better.
You're welcome! Great memories for me, too. Thanks so much for commenting :))
I used to have this album. Fun to hear it again.
Thanks so much. I grew up on this as well and it's what sounds like christmas to me. The actual album is at me parent's place 500 kms away. So this is great!
So glad you're enjoying it! This is what Christmas sounds like to me, too. Thanks so much for commenting! Merry Christmas :)
thank you for this treat
love this ! A favorite album from my childhood! thanks for putting it on Utube !
A favorite from my childhood, too! Thanks for listening and commenting :))
Yeah,when I was a kid my dad brought home a Zennith Stero player from s department store.Volum 5&6 Firestone were included.playrd all the time.l hot a kick out of one of Jack Jones songs because my last name was in it.
Merry Christmas.
Thank you so much for the upload. We had this vinyl when I was young and to this day, this Jack Jones version of O Holy Town of Bethlehem is STILL my favorite one. :)
yagsfan I'm so glad you enjoyed it! This album was always my very favorite one, and I love Jack Jones' version of everything on it. Thanks so much for listening and commenting! Merry Christmas :))
Vols. 6 and 7! Thanks for the early Christmas!!!!
My favorite record from Childhood the blue Firestone favorite Christmas Music !
Exactly the same here.
My grown daughter sent me this today - Oh, the memories!
I have seen this album dozens of times in thrift stores over and this is the first time I've heard it. I might have to snag it now, dammit.
Thank you for this! We had all of these albums growing up and I miss them.
You're welcome! Merry Christmas!
TheSorrowfulFlower Merry Christmas to you, too!
Merry Christmas everyone.
I used to be in a boys choir as a kid. I love hearing VBC again.
I love this album.
So do I. Thanks for listening and commenting :))
Do you remember the glasses you could buy with the album? We never had a full set because I would break half before the next year while singing and washing dishes. Merry Christmas to all!!!
Wonderful Thanks!! Love Jackie Gleason Orchestra
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for listening and commenting :))
Wow, this is spectacular!! Thank you for sharing this album, it is the only one that my parents did not have. I remember loving the Julie Andrews Firestone Christmas albums.
So glad you enjoyed it, Jennifer! This was always my favorite one. Thanks for listening and commenting!
I thought this was very good,my first time listening to it!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for commenting :))
Yes, yes thank you! This is one of my all time favorite albums. My mom was a fourth grade teacher and took it to school and lost it! I was heartbroken. Decades later found it at a used book store, but had no way to listen to it in digital -- until now. Thank you for converting it and uploading. You are a saint. Thanks for this awesome Christmas present. Have a wonderful holiday.
This was always my very favorite, too! I'm SO glad you found it. I'm always amazed at all the people who loved these Firestone albums as much as we did. Your wonderful comments have really made my day, thank you! I hope you have a wonderful holiday, too :))
TheSorrowfulFlower Hello again. I'm just now seeing your reply. For some reason I thought about this album today and wanted to make sure it is still here. Thank goodness. I remember going with my dad to our local Firestone dealership just to buy the Christmas albums. These albums remind me of him and of all the wonderful Christmas' we spent together. This particular one with Jack Jones I love so much I play it even when it isn't Christmas. My family is just used to it by now! Again, many, many thanks to you.
What precious memories! Thanks again for your wonderful comments :))
Very Beautiful.