Christmas Records

Christmas Records The first Christmas record was Jingle Bells, played on a banjo by Will Lyle (an Edison cylinder of October 1899). Among the famous early renditions of traditional carols were O Holy Night, by Enrico Caruso, and also by Marcel Journet (Victor 6559), John McCormack’s Adeste Fideles (Victor 6607), Ernestine Schumann-Heink’s Stille Nacht (Victor 6723, backed by Engelbert Humperdinck’s Weihnachten; also on Victrola 88138), and another Silent Night by Elisabeth Schumann (Victor…