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Show By LINDA NORMS PJOESNT seem possible but - nonetheless it ia true that the Yuletide season is with us again and with it comes all the best of the carol parade by the top artists of all record companies . . . The perennial, inevitable and still welcome wel-come Bint" Crosby has an excellent excel-lent album out for Warner Bros, called "I Wish You a Merry Christmas" . . . It's not advertised aa a "sing-along" but it turns out that way for Blng's moods are always al-ways infectious and his songs always familiar ones for everyone. every-one. Included in this terrific album are such heartwarming numbers as "I Wish You a Merry Christmas," Christ-mas," "Winter Wonderland," "The Holly and the Ivy," "Frosty the Snowman," "What Child Is This?", "Let It Snow," the ethereal ethe-real "O, Holy Night," "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," "The Little Drummer Boy," and "The Littlest Angel" amongst others ... A delightful combination of old traditional carols and new modern songs with Yule spirit and atmosphere ... A real ringer. Another Warner Bros. Christmas Christ-mas must is "Christmas With the Everly Bros." And so we go from the veteran showman Bing to the new generation of their offerings . . . The Boys are joined by the Boystown Choir in a truly beautiful beau-tiful hour of song that is memorable memora-ble in its emotion ... A great selection se-lection of carols includes "Adeste Fideles," "Away In a Manger," "The First Noel," "What Child Is This?". "Silent Night," "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," "Deck the Hall," "Oh, Little Town of Beth-lehem" Beth-lehem" and "V'e Wish You a Merry Mer-ry Christmas." |