The Peggy Lee Bio-Discography's Picture Gallery
Various-Artists Compilations From Capitol-EMI
Part 5: Christmas Albums
by Iván Santiago-Mercado

Generated on Jan 22, 2012

Scope And Contents

Part of a set of pages dedicated to Capitol's various-artists compilations, this page focuses on the label's Christmas anthologies. LPs are primarily covered in the first few sections, which deal with the following labels: Capitol Special Products, aka Capitol Special Markets, (section I), Capitol-EMI itself (section II), and Pickwick, a licensee from the LP era (section III). Priority is given to Capitol Special Products due to its relevance to the main topic at hand: it was EMI's most prolific source of seasonal compilations. The page then moves to two CD series from Capitol-EMI (sections IV, V) and to four outlets that regularly commissioned CDs from Capitol-EMI Special Markets: Old Navy (section VI), Pottery Barn (section VII), Starbucks (section VIII), and True Value (section IX). The last section (X) adds a few miscellaneous items of potential interest . Please notice that most sections aim at sampling qualifying material, rather than at a complete display. (Many qualifying holiday issues, particularly from Public Domain labels, have not been included.)

I. HOLIDAY COMPILATIONS FROM CAPITOL CREATIVE PRODUCTS AND CAPITOL SPECIAL MARKETS

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1. Title: Happy Holly Days, Album 2 / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6698 / Rel. Year: 1970 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "The Star Carol."

2. Title: Happy Holly Days, Album 3 / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6761 / Rel. Year: 1971 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "The Christmas Waltz."

3. Title: Zenith Presents Christmas, A Gift Of Music, Volume 4 / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6687 / Rel. Year: 1970 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "White Christmas." This item (Sl 6687) exists in at least three editions. The same catalogue number and the same tracks are found in two of those editions (this one and #6 below), yet they do not share the same artwork. The third edition (item #23 below) again has the same catalogue number and includes the exact same tracks, but it features different artwork and an entirely different title (Season's Greetings From American Airlines).

General Note About The Zenith Presents Christmas, A Gift Of Music And The Happy Holly Days Series
I believe that Zenith commisioned a total of six Christmas, A Gift Of Music volumes. Those volumes were released on an annual basis, from 1967 to 1972. Capitol Creative Products is credited with preparing three of them (#1, #3, #4). (Vocals by Peggy Lee appear in the first and fourth of those volumes. Their front covers are displayed in this page, as images #3 and #8). Columbia Special Products is credited with two of the other volumes. The last volume was put together by the Longines Symphonette Society in conjunction with MCA Special Products, and is the only one that bears a sub-title, The Christmas Hit Parade. As for the total of volumes in the Happy Holly Days series, I have found proof of only three. However, I have also come across a listing for a Happy Holly Days, Album 7 which is said to include one Peggy Lee track. Then again, the listing in question did not look particularly reliable, and I have been unable to find further evidence of the existence of any other albums past the third one.

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4. Title: Christmas America; A Musical & Pictorial Souvenir Of Christmas In The United States Of America / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Slao 6666; / Rel. Year: 1970 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz." See also item #12 below.

5. Title: The Christmas Sound Of Music / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Sl 6996 / Rel. Year: 1975 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)."

6. Title: Christmas, A Gift Of Music / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6687 / Rel. Year: 1970 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "White Christmas." This item (Sl 6687) exists in at least three editions. Two of those editions (items #3 and #6 herein) use the same catalogue number and the same tracks, but have different artwork. The third edition (item #21 below) uses the same catalogue number and includes the exact same tracks, too, but has an entirely different title and different artwork.

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7. Title: "The Spirit Of Christmas" / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6516 / Rel. Year: 1966 / Note: I believe that Sl 6516 was the third issue released under the Capitol Creative Products logo, and the first Creative Products album to include any Peggy Lee track. Actually, it contains not one but two Lee tracks: "Don't Forget To Feed The Reindeer" and "The Star Carol." All acts in this LP are featured twice (once per side, in the same track position), except for Bing Crosby (side 1) and The Roger Wagner Chorale (side 2), who are featured once.

8. Title: Zenith Presents Christmas, A Gift Of Music (Volume 1) / Format: LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: Sl 6544 / Rel. Year: 1967 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz." Contains the same tracks and the same artwork as item #9. As, can be seen, the artwork is also the same as item #7, although the tracks are different ones.

9. Title: Christmas, The Season Of Music / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6589 / Rel. Year: 1968 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz." Exists in two other editions, the first of them shown herein as item #8. The other edition has the same tracks and catalogue number, but different title (From Under The Christmas Tree) and different artwork (see image #28 below).

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10. Title: The Magic Of Christmas; Christmas Songs And Carols America Loves Best / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Sm 8321 / Rel. Year: 1982 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "White Christmas." Commissioned by Realistic.

11. Title: Christmas With The Stars / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Sl 6931 / Rel. Year: 1973 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz." Same tracks as item #12, but different title and different artwork. On another note, there are also numerous EMI CDs entitled Christmas With The Stars, most of them produced in Great Britain, and none well-known to me. One or more of them could be digital reissues of Sl 6931. (If any of them are indeed reissues of this LP, then they must contain bonus tracks, or tracks from other LPs as well: the Christmas With The Stars CDs of which I am aware include up to 3 Peggy Lee vocals.)

12. Title: Christmas America; A Musical Souvenir Of Christmas In The United States Of America / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Sm 6884 / Rel. Year: 1973 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz." This album (made for the Firestone tire company) is a re-conceptualization of item #4 above. Besides the very similar titles, both albums open and close with the same songs ("Christmas America," Parts 1 and 2). Of the other 11 tracks, however, only three are the same in both albums, including the one Peggy Lee track. There is also a sequel, Christmas America, Album Two (Sl 6950), which does not feature Lee. Copies of both Sl 6684 and Sl 6950 can still be found with Firestone stickers in them ("Merry Christmas from Firestone," "Seasons Greetings From Firestone").

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13. Title: The Year Without A Santa Claus / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6588 / Rel. Year: 1968 / Note: Prepared for the E.F. MacDonald Incentive Company. Side A of this LP is entirely dedicated to Boris Karloff's narration of Phyllis McGuinley's book The Year Without A Santa Claus (turned into a well-known animated-motion TV movie in 1974). The other side contains five music performances: The Lettermen's "The Christmas Waltz," Glenn Campbell's "Old Toy Trains," Peggy Lee's "Don't Forget To Feed The Reindeer," Al Martino's "The Little Drummer Boy," Sandler & Young's " I Sing Noel," and Roger Wagner Chorale's "Jingle Bells."

14. Title: The Year Without A Santa Claus / Format: CD / Label: Emi / Cat. Num.: 48842 / Rel. Year: 2010 / Note: CD edition of the previously discussed LP. Includes the original narration by Boris Karloff as well as Peggy Lee's "Don't Forget To Feed The Reindeer." Curiously, the other four renditions are different from those found in the original LP. The substituting renditions are Alvin & the Chipmunks' "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)," Johnny Mercer's "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," The Beach Boys' "The Man With All The Toys," Amy Grant's "Mr. Santa" and, closing the disc, Alvin & the Chipmunks again, with "Up On The House-Top."

15. Title: All-Time Christmas Favorites From Sylvania / Format: LP & 8-Track / Label: Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Sl 6931 & 8xl 6931 / Rel. Year: 1973 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz."

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16. Title: Imagine The Joys Of Christmas, Presented By Sylvania / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6700 / Rel. Year: 1971 / Note: Opens with Peggy Lee's recording of "Happy Holiday." Also includes her recording of Deck The Hall. ""

17. Title: The Sound Of Christmas, Volume 2 / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6534 / Rel. Year: 1967 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Song." Volume 1 does not feature Lee.

18. Title: Montgomery Ward Presents A Christmas To Remember, Volume 1; Favorite Christmas Songs and Music / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6573 / Rel. Year: 1968 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Happy Holiday."

19. Title: Montgomery Ward Presents A Christmas To Remember, Volume 3 / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6681 / Rel. Year: 1970 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Little Drummer Boy." This third volume seems to have been the last one in this "Christmas To Remember" series from Montgomery Ward. Lee is present in the series' first and third volumes, absent from second volume.

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20. Title: Christmas Classics / Format: LP / Pieces: 4 /Label: Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Sl 9308 / Rel. Year: 1986 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)."

21. Title: The Spirit Of Christmas / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6731 / Rel. Year: 1972 / Note: Bears the same title as item #7 above, and also contain the same Peggy Lee rendition of "The Star Carol." However, the two albums are different, and are not directly related. Among their differences is the fact that only item #7 includes a second Lee track ("Don't Forget To Feed The Reindeer").

22. Title: Home For Christmas / Format: LP / Pieces: 4 / Label: Lifetime & Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Lt 21 / Rel. Year: 1987 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)." Originally sold via TV infomercials only.

23. Title: Season's Greetings From American Airlines / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6687 / Rel. Year: 1970 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "White Christmas." This item has the same catalogue number and the same tracks as items #3 and #6 above, yet its title and its artwork are different from #3 and #6. It seems that Capitol Creative Products saved itself some time and work by producing essentially the same album for multiple companies.

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24-26. Title: A Very Merry Christmas, Volume VIII / Format: 8-Track & LP / Label: Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 8t 6954 & Sl 6954 / Rel. Year: 1974 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz." The 8-track cartridge is seen in image #24, the LP cover in the other two images, both front (image #25) and back ( image #26). The LP was made for Grant's.

27. Title: A Very Merry Christmas From Regal / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: (Canada) Sl 6954 / Rel. Year: 1977 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz." Made for the Regal Gifts Corporation chainstore in Canada.

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28. Title: From Under The Christmas Tree; Warm And Wonderful Gifts Of Music / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6589 / Rel. Year: 1968 (according to two commercial sites) or 1975 (according to one commercial site) / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz." Exists in two other editions. One of the editions has the same tracks and the same catalogue number, but a different title (Christmas, The Season Of Music) and different artwork (item #9 above). The other edition has the same tracks, the same catalogue number, and the same artwork (item #8 above), but a different title (Zenith Presents Christmas, A Gift Of Music, Volume 1).

29. Title: A Christmas Treasury; 25 Best-Loved Holiday Classics / Format: CD / Label: Emi Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 7243 8 17792 2 4 / Rel. Year: 2000 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town."

30. Title: Town And Country Sound Of Christmas / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Sl 6893 / Rel. Year: 1973 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Winter Wonderland."

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31. Title: A Christmas Tapestry / Format: CD / Label: Emi Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 7777 56918 2 5 / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town."

32. Title: Holiday Magic / Format: LP & Cs & 8-Track & CD / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6728 & 4xl 6728 & 8xl 6728 & Cdl 6728 / Rel. Year: 1971 & 1991 (CD) / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recordings of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)" and "Christmas Carousel."

33. Title: Christmas Music Collection / Format: LP / Pieces: 6 / Label: CBS Special Products (aka CSP) & Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 18366, 18367, 18368, 18369; Sl 9125, Sl 9126 / Rel. Year: 1984 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recordings of "Christmas Carousel" (on LP Sl 9125) and "The Christmas Waltz" (possibly on LP Sl 9125; otherwise on Sl 9126). Commissioned by Multilingua on behalf of American Express.

34. Title: Christmas Classics By The Fire / Format: DVD & CD / Label: Emi Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 5 09996 85960 9 5 / Rel. Year: 2009 / Note: When placed either on a TV or a computer, this DVD shows one of three optional scenes: a grate with burning logs (1), just the burning logs (2), or a living room filled with a Christmas tree, presents, a chair, a record player and, of course, the fireplace with the burning logs (3). The CD part of this DVD-CD combo contains 23 songs, including Peggy Lee's rendition of "Happy Holiday." The songs can be played either by themselves or with the optional sounds of the fireplace and the crackling logs. Sold primarily at Wal-Mart and Best Buy stores.

II. HOLIDAY COMPILATIONS FROM CAPITOL-EMI, INCLUDING THE COMPANY'S RECORD CLUB

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1. Title: Christmas Carousel / Format: LP & 8-Track / Label: Capitol Record Club / Cat. Num.: Sqbe 94406 / Rel. Year: 1972 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recordings of "The Star Carol" and "Little Drummer Boy."

2. Title: Season's Greetings / Format: LP & 8-Track / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: S(t) 1622 / Rel. Year: 1961 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)."

3. Title: Season's Greetings - The Favorite Songs Of Christmas / Format: Reel / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: Y2t 2405 / Rel. Year: ca. 1965 / Note: Twofer reel, consisting of item #2 above and item #4 below. Contains Peggy Lee's recordings of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)" and "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town."

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4. Title: The Favorite Songs Of Christmas / Format: LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: S(t) 2176 / Rel. Year: 1964 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town."

5. Title: Christmas Stocking / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Record Club / Cat. Num.: Snp 90494 / Rel. Year: 1965 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town."

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6. Title: The Magic Of Christmas / Format: LP / Pieces: 2 / Label: Capitol Record Club / Cat. Num.: Sqbo 93810 ((also found listed as Swbb 93810, which is indeed the vinyl's number) / Rel. Year: 1971 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Happy Holiday."

7. Title: The Sounds Of Christmas / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Record Club / Cat. Num.: Stbb 93245 / Rel. Year: ca. 1970 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town."

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8. Title: The Best Of Christmas / Format: reel & 8-track & cassette & 2LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: Y1t & 8xt & 8m & 4xt & Stbb 2979 / Rel. Year: 1967 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)."

9. Title: The Best Of Christmas / Format: cassette & CD / Label: Capitol EMI Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 0777 7 97458 / Rel. Year: 1991 / Note: CD edition of item #7. Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)."

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10 & 11. Title: Christmas ("Golden Double 32" Series) / Format: 2LP / Label: Capitol (Toshiba) / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Ecs 65043 & Ecs 65044 / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recordings of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)," "The Tree," and "The Star Carol."

III. PICKWICK HOLIDAY LPS, "IN ARRANGEMENT WITH CAPITOL RECORDS"

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1. Title: I'll Be Home For Christmas / Format: LP / Label: Pickwick / Cat. Num.: Spc 1009 / Rel. Year: 1969 (or, according to other sources, 1978) / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "The Christmas Song." Judging from the stickers that I have seen in some copies, Shop Rite was among the stores where Pickwick albums were originally sold.

2. Title: Merry Christmas To You! / Format: LP / Label: Pickwick / Cat. Num.: Spc 1010 / Rel. Year: 1969 (or, according to other sources, 1978) / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recordings of "Deck The Halls" and "White Christmas."

3. Title: Christmas Day / Format: LP / Label: Pickwick / Cat. Num.: (Canada) Spc 1010 / Rel. Year: 1969 (or, according to other sources, 1978) / Note: Canadian edition of item #2. Same tracks in a different order. Contains, therefore, Peggy Lee's recordings of "Deck The Halls" and "White Christmas."

IV. CAPITOL-EMI'S "CHEESECAKE" CD SERIES

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1. Title: Merry Christmas, Baby: Romance & Reindeer / Format: CD / Label: Emi / Cat. Num.: 0777 7 97459 / Rel. Year: 1991 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "The Christmas Spell."

2. Title: Let It Snow!; Cuddly Christmas Classics From Capitol / Format: CD & CS / Label: Emi / Cat. Num.: 0777 7 99692 2 7 / Rel. Year: 1992 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's renditions of "The Christmas Waltz" and "Song At Midnight."

3 & 4. Title: Happy Holidays; Warm & Wonderful Christmas Favorites / Format: CD / Label: Emi / Cat. Num.: 0777 7 89587 2 / Rel. Year: 1993 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "The Christmas Song." As can be gathered from images #3 and #4, this CD appears reprinted at some point with a different cover, but the same title and track listing. The first cover (image #3) is the one with which I am familiar -- i.e., the one which I remember seeing at record stores.

General Note About This Series
In truth, this section's CDs were never officially identified as part of a series. Still, the same underlying concept is evident in their artwork, titles, and track selections. Similarly suggestive of a series is the fact that they were consecutively released, each during a different Christmas, between 1990 and 1993. No Peggy Lee tracks were included in the earliest of them, entitled Christmas Kisses; Christmas Classics From Capitol's Early Year (1990) and shown to the left of this text. During the first half of the 1990s, Emi also released a few additional holiday CDs: The Best Of Christmas, Christmas On The Range, and Peace On Earth. A look at the artwork of those other CDs makes it obvious that they were not conceived as part of the series under discussion. (And onnly the first, a reissue of a 2LP set, features Lee. Entitled The Best Of Christmas, it is discussed in section II above.)

V. CAPITOL-EMI'S HOLIDAY LEGENDS SERIES

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1. Title: Merry Christmas, Baby ("Holiday Legends" Series) / Format: CD & CS / Label: EMI-Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 72435 33286 / Rel. Year: 2001 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "Winter Wonderland."

2. Title: I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm ("Holiday Legends" Series) / Format: CD & CS / Label: EMI-Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 72435 33152 2 1 / Rel. Year: 2001 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "The Christmas Spell."

3. Title: Rock 'N' Roll Christmas ("Holiday Legends" Series) / Format: CD & CS / Label: EMI-Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 72435 33153 2 0 / Rel. Year: 2001 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "Happy Holiday."

4. Title: Warm December ("Holiday Legends" Series) / Format: CD & CS / Label: EMI-Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 72435 37088 2 / Rel. Year: 2001 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "Happy Holiday."

General Note About This Series
Each issue in this budget "Holiday Legends" series contains 10 tracks. As far as I know, there is a total of 5 issues. A Peggy Lee track can be found in all but one issue, entitled Do You Hear What I Hear?, whose cover is shown next to this text.

VI. OLD NAVY'S HOLIDAY CDS (LICENSED THROUGH EMI SPECIAL MARKETS AND THROUGH OTHER LABELS)

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1. Title: Hi-Fi Holiday; The Season's Best In Stereo / Format: CD / Label: Old Navy Music & Rock River / Cat. Num.: unknown (Ean 0174182500013) / Rel. Year: 2001 / Note: Contains not a Capitol but a Decca Peggy Lee recording, "Ring Those Christmas Bells." Included here as part of the goal of including all Old Navy CD with Lee tracks.

2. Title: Holiday; Songs For Snow And Mistletoe / Format: CD / Label: Old Navy Music & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: unknown / Rel. Year: 2000 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Happy Holiday."

3. Title: Holiday Hits; Festive Faves For The Whole Family / Format: CD / Label: Old Navy Music & __ / Cat. Num.: unknown (Ean 0122802000023) / Rel. Year: 2003 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Winter Wonderland."

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4. Title: Holiday Classics; A Jolly Good Collection / Format: CD / Label: Old Navy Music & Rhino Special Products / Cat. Num.: unknown (Ean 0141647200016) / Rel. Year: 1999 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "The Christmas Waltz."

5. Title: Holiday Classics (Volume 1) / Format: CD / Label: Old Navy Music & Sony Special Markets / Cat. Num.: unknown / Rel. Year: 1995 / Note: Contains Benny Goodman's Columbia recording of "Winter Weather," with vocals by Peggy Lee and Art Lund. Included here as part of the goal of including all Old Navy CD with Lee tracks.

VII. POTTERY BARN HOLIDAY CDS (LICENSED THROUGH EMI SPECIAL MARKETS AND THROUGH OTHER LABELS)

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1. Title: Classic Christmas, Volume II / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - Emi Music Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & _ / Rel. Year: 2002 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleigh Ride)."

2. Title: Classic Christmas Trilogy / Format: CD / Volumes: 3 / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & _ / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: This image shows the trilogy's three CDs and also the box in which they were encased. The trilogy contains two Peggy Lee renditions, one in volume II and the other in volume III. There are no Lee tracks in the first volume, whose cover is the one displayed first in the image -- i.e., the b&w photo of the couple.

3. Title: Classic Christmas, Volume III / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - (possibly Universal Music Special Markets) / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & _ / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: Classic Christmas, Volume III has the same front cover as the set which contains it, Classic Christmas Trilogy. Hence, since I have not found a suitable photo of volume III, I have opted to display instead the set's front cover. In any case, volume III contains the Decca recording "Little Jack Frost, Get Lost," a duet sung by Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee.

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4. Title: Hip Holidays, Volume II / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb 18 & _ / Rel. Year: 1999 or 2000 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Winter Wonderland."

5. Title: Hip Holidays Trilogy / Format: CD / Volumes:3 / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & _ / Rel. Year: ca. 2001 / Note: Contains two Peggy Lee renditions, one in volume II and the other in volume III.

6. Title: Hip Holidays, Volume III / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - Sony Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & _ / Rel. Year: 2001 / Note: Contains Benny Goodman's Columbia recording of "Winter Weather," with vocals by Peggy Lee and Art Lund.

7. Title: The Hippest Holiday / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - Emi Capitol Music Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & _ / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town."

8. Title: Holiday Trilogy, Volume I / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - _ Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb 464 & _ / Rel. Year: 2004 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town." Can probably also be found packaged, together with the other volumes of this trilogy, although I have been unable to locate any corroborating details.

9. Title: Holiday Trilogy, Volume II / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - _ Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb 465 & _ / Rel. Year: 2004 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Happy Holiday." Can probably also be found packaged, together with the other volumes of this trilogy, although I have been unable to locate any corroborating details. Lee is not featured in the third volume.

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10. Title: A Cool Christmas, Volume II / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - Emi Capitol Music Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & _ / Rel. Year: 1996 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town." Lee is not featured in volumes I and III. It stands to good reason that there might have also been a 3CD set entitled Cool Christmas Trilogy, but so far I have found no corroboration of its existence.

11. Title: Holiday Surprises ("Pottery Barn Kids" Series) / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - Emi Capitol Music Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & _ / Rel. Year: 2003 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Winter Wonderland."

12. Title: Holiday Cocktails / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - Emi Capitol Music Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Winter Wonderland."

13. Title: Big Band Christmas Swing / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - Emi Capitol Music Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & / Rel. Year: 2007 / Note: Includes Benny Goodman's Columbia recording of "Winter Weather," featuring Peggy Lee and Art Lund on vocals.

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14. Title: Christmas Divas / Format: CD / Label: Pottery Barn - Rock River - Sony Music Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Pb _ & / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Decca rendition of "Ring Those Christmas Bells."

VIII. STARBUCKS CDS (LICENSED THROUGH EMI SPECIAL MARKETS AND THROUGH OTHER LABELS)

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1. Title: Hi-Fidelity Holiday / Format: CD / Label: Starbucks' Hear Music & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 72434 97552 2 2 / Rel. Year: 1998 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)."

2. Title: Sleigh Ride Side By Side / Format: CD / Label: Starbucks' Hear Music & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 0037 & 1509999 06684 2 5 / Rel. Year: 2010 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)." Reached #59 in Billboard's Top 200 album chart, and #14 in the magazine's Holiday Albums chart.

3. Title: Winterludes; Cool Holiday Notes / Format: CD / Label: Starbucks' Hear Music & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 7243 8 36480 2 3 / Rel. Year: 1995 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz."

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4. Title: Sleigh Full Of Songs / Format: CD / Label: Starbucks' Hear Music & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: unknown (Ean 0762111680464) / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride)."

5. Title: Making Merry / Format: CD / Label: Starbucks' Hear Music & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 00246 & 509996 86608 2 6 / Rel. Year: 2009 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town."

6. Title: Santa Baby / Format: CD / Label: Starbucks' Hear Music & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: Cds 029 / Rel. Year: 2006 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "I'll Be Seeing You."

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7. Title: Mistletoe & Merriment / Format: CD / Label: Starbucks' Hear Music & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 00762111 64700 9 / Rel. Year: 2003 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Winter Wonderland."

8. Title: Holly Days And Mistletoe Nights (Hear Music, Volume 3) / Format: CD / Label: Starbucks' Hear Music & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 7243 5 29428 2 4 / Rel. Year: 2000 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Waltz."

9. Title: Winter Wonderland / Format: CD / Label: Starbucks' Hear Music & Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 509992 35943 2 6 / Rel. Year: 2008 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Little Drummer Boy."

IX. TRUE VALUE'S CUSTOM-MADE HAPPY HOLIDAYS SERIES (LICENSED FROM CAPITOL, COLUMBIA, RCA, AND PICKWICK)

Artwork Shown:

1. Title: Happy Holidays, Album 6 / Format: LP & 8-Track & CS / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6669 / Rel. Year: 1970 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "I Like A Sleigh Ride (Jingle Bells)."

2. Title: Happy Holidays, Album 7 / Format: LP & 8-Track & CS / Label: Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6730 / Rel. Year: 1971 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "Christmas Carousel."

3. Title: Happy Holidays, Album 19 / Format: LP & CD & CS / Label: RCA Special Products / Cat. Num.: Dpl 1 0689 / Rel. Year: 1984 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "The Christmas Song."

4. Title: Happy Holidays, Album 37 / Format: CD & CS / Label: Emi Music / Cat. Num.: 7243 5 40697 2 7 / Rel. Year: 2002 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's rendition of "Happy Holiday."

General Note About The Happy Holidays Series
During each holiday season from 1965 to 2005, the hardware chain True Value sold in its stores a new volume of its custom-made Happy Holidays series. The largest bulk of the volumes were prepared by RCA/BMG's Special Products branch. Of the other volumes, six were put together by Columbia/SONY, including the first two. Capitol/EMI / CEMA was hired to produce 10 issues, including the final volume. In addition to the labels mentioned, there was Pickwick, which put together two Happy Holidays albums consisting entirely of numbers sung by Sandler & Young. (At the time, Sandler & Young was a Capitol-recording act. Capitol was among Pickwick's shareholders.) Peggy Lee appeared only in the four volumes listed above.

X. WORTHWHILE HOLIDAY MISCELLANEA

Artwork Shown:

1. Title: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas / Format: CD / Label: K-Tel / Cat. Num.: 669391 / Rel. Year: 2007 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Spell." Peggy Lee of course appears in many other K-Tel anthologies; well over a dozen are listed in this discography's Compilations page.

2. Title: Now That's What I Call Christmas! 3 / Format: CD / Label: Sony Bmg / Volumes: 2 / Cat. Num.: (England) 89482 / Rel. Year: 2006 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's recording of "Little Drummer Boy." Peggy Lee also has a vocal ("Happy Holiday") in the second volume of this mass-marketed series.

3. Title: Christmas Greetings (Volume 3) / Format: LP / Label: Columbia Special Products / Cat. Num.: P 11383 / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: This album does not include any Peggy Lee vocals, but it does include a worthwhile curiosity: Peggy Lee's composition "Here's To You" is rendered by Cary Grant. There were at least 5 volumes in this series, which was commissioned by the grocery store A&P.

4. Title: Under the Mistletoe: Reindeer & Romance / Format: CD / Label: Shout! Factory - Emi Special Markets / Cat. Num.: / Rel. Year: 2003 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's recording of "The Christmas Spell." This CD is part of a Shout! Factory series of at least 3 CDs, all of them with eye-catching doll-like or puppet-looking entities in the covers. The other two CDs do not feature Lee. (Incidentally, she is also featured in only one of the CD issues from another Shout Factory series, named Wonderland Love Stories. The title of the issue is Good Morning, Heartache and Lee's rendition in it is "I'll Be Around." The same track was picked for inclusion in the series' sampler, more simply titled Love. Lee has two vocals in the company's 3CD set 50's Love Songs, too.)

Note About The Artwork Below
About a dozen other Capitol holiday issues have been mentioned in the 4 previous pages of this pictorial discography. Below I have included their images; for specific details about each, consult those pages. Furthermore, sections III and IV of this page include a few additional holiday anthologies from Columbia and Decca.