Album
Rita Ford's Music Boxes - A Music Box Christmas (1961)
Release
- Format: Vinyl
- Released: 1963 (Reissue)
- Label: Columbia (CL 1968)
- Purchased: July 17, 2025
- Media Condition: NM
- Sleeve Condition: VG+
- Original Release: 1961
- Original Label: Columbia (CL 1968)
- Available Formats: Vinyl, CD, Cassette, 8-Track
Tracklist
- A1. Silent Night, Holy Night Symphonium
- A2. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Regina
- A3. Zu Bethlehem Geboren Polyphon With Bells
- A4. The Monastery Bells Olympia
- A5. O Tannenbaum Large Kalliope With Bells
- A6. O Sanctissima Regina, Small Kalliope
- A7. Spin, Spin Regina
- A8. O Holy Night Swiss Music Box
- A9. Ave Maria Olympia, Regina
- B1. Adeste Fideles Regina
- B2. Still, Still, Holy Melody Large Kalliope With Bells
- B3. Jesus, Lover Of My Soul Olympia
- B4. The First Noël Regina
- B5. Ihr Kinderklein Kommet Large Kalliope With Bells, Polyphon With Bells, Regina
- B6. The Holy City Olympia
- B7. Lobe Den Herren Polyphon With Bells
- B8. Jingle Bells Regina
- B9. Silent Night, Holy Night Large Kalliope With Bells, Regina
Rita Ford Music Boxes was founded in Manhatten by Rita Ford in 1947. Originally a period antique shop, Rita Ford Music Boxes grew to the world’s largest dealer of antique and modern music boxes.
This 1961 album is the first in a series of releases from Rita Ford Music Boxes that continued through the late 1980’s, all recordings of antique music boxes. The series contains two other Christmas albums, The Story of Christmas (1968) and A Christmas Tree - A Collection of Enchanting Music Box Melodies (1985).
Eight tracks from this album (A2, A3, A5, B2, B4, B5, B7 and B8) are used in the Main Street U.S.A. Holiday Loop at Disneyland and other Disney parks.
This copy is an early 1960’s mono reissue (1963?) featuring the Columbia red, two-eye label.