Love the illustrations in that Ebb Tide box set booklet

I am 67. My grandpa bought me this album when I was five years old shortly before he died. I loved it and I don’t know whatever happened to it. This is sparking so many good memories for me just listening to this again.

Merry Christmas from the Islands of the Philippines, @ 70 years of age, enjoying the beauty of Christmas with these vintage holiday tunes (written this 22nd day of December, 2024 )

Thanks for sharing your art and tikis!

Here is something very weird about this album: some of the instrumentals are the exact same instrumentals that back up another LP from that time - a children's album called "Woody Woodchuck Christmas Sing Song". "Woody" is really a ripoff of "Alvin the Chipmunk", and all the songs are sung by "chipmunk" voices - even "The Christmas Song" made famous by Alvin and the Chipmunks! I kept hearing very familiar riffs on various tracks of "Hail to Christmas" but when it came to "Rudolph" there was no doubt: that celesta tag at the end of the song is identical to one that appears on Woody's album. However, Woody's album was released by Premier Records. How did the same musical scoring for many of the songs end up at two different record companies?

Great job Sir Jon Charles

Greetings brother From Texas

Maybe skip the fruitcake and minced meat at his Christmas party…

Thank you so much for your great artwork tour, that was me who requested it! I'm also loving your vlogmas episodes, I would really enjoy more vlogs after vlogmas. Take care of yourself John & be sure to get a lot of rest!

Holy cow you added butter and ketchup to the sauce? Aye carumba. Next time look for the Cento brand or any brand with San Marzano tomatoes. Always buy two cans, and make sure you have some fresh garlic and basil, and one egg with the meatballs is absolutely necessary, Browning the meatballs before adding to the sauce helps also. You forgot the grated cheese, parmesan, Romano or pecorino.

I haven’t made a lot of meatballs but I wonder if you could do them meatloaf-style where you just throw anything you have into the mix; different condiments, leftovers, garlic, orange peel, etc. If you tire of the spaghetti maybe you could make a few meatball subs out of some of it for a change up. Or maybe heated over some toasted garlic bread with parmesan and a salad.

I’m so glad you like the hat ❤. When I make meatballs for spaghetti I use Italian sausage, bread crumbs and an egg. I’ve browned them in the frying pan and I’ve also baked them. Sometimes I will make them with ground beef or turkey the same way but add some Worcestershire sauce, brown them in a frying pan. Remove excess grease, add cream of mushroom soup and serve that over egg noodles or rice. Poor man’s stroganoff 😉

I’ve always browned first and then added to sauce. I’ll have to try them this way. Usually, I have chicken breast with my spaghetti. Sometimes beef/hamburger upsets my stomach for days. I’ve read that certain blood types should avoid beef and I think I’m in that group.

Great video. I just picked up the touch of elegance lp on one of my record hunts. Thank you for posting this I picked it remembering your video. Boy are you wright. I absolutely love the lp. It's absolutely outstanding and one that is now on my constant play list. !!!!!

Enjoyed this. I enjoyed seeing the grocery store. I do recall your video where you showed us the art from the thrift stores in Albuquerque, NM, another favorite part of your channel are watching the thrift store finds.

Feel better soon! I have to say the meat prices there are equivalent to what they are here. I’m like you, I prefer ground turkey over beef and you definitely need pork bacon to cook your cabbage. Think I’ll pick up a cabbage today 💖💖💖

Thanks for the fresh tour. It makes me long for the days before the lounge revival when the thrift shops were still full of items like that. Not to mention more and better records. I love the weird, exotic orange piece. Grocery hauls are fun too. I suppose I should like food better than records, but it’s debatable. Cabbage and an orange is probably better for a cold, though.

Hope you get better brother Hopefully when you feel better you do a thrift haul and more Hawaiian lps show

Love your YT channel. And I loved watching Lawrence Welk on TV at my grandparents’ house, too. We have so much in common!

Have you consistently listened to Hawaiian and easy listening or did you have a youthful musically rebellious phase? If so, what music did you delve into?

You live and play in a beautiful area! Thanks for sharing, fun to see the decor too.

I wamt to know about Anita kerr and how she was able to head up her group in an era when most choir directors were men Anita Kerr was a trailblazer in the music industry, especially during a time when most choir directors and arrangers were men. Born Anita Jean Grilli in Memphis, Tennessee, she began her musical journey at a young age, taking piano lessons and playing the pipe organ2. By age 14, she was leading the Grilli Sisters vocal group. In 1948, she moved to Nashville and started a singing group for WSM's "Sunday Down South" radio show. Her big break came when her group, the Anita Kerr Singers, provided a featured vocal part on Red Foley's 1950 crossover hit "Our Lady of Fatima."2 This success led to a recording contract with Decca Records and numerous collaborations with prominent artists like Eddy Arnold, Burl Ives, and Ernest Tubb. Anita Kerr's talent and determination allowed her to break through gender barriers in the music industry. She worked alongside key producers like Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley, shaping the hits of many artists and helping to define the "Nashville Sound."1 Her creativity and leadership made her one of the most influential vocal and instrumental arrangers of her time.

The biggest bargain in vinyl and usually they are NM-. I like Easy Listening. Aloha

Do you just keep adding more and more new music to the pool of playlist songs on Moody Mood (and the others), or do you pull things out as you add new ones to limit the overall number of tracks they’re cycling through at a given time?

That sand sculpture is awesome! Thank you for showing it to us.

Great idea to digitize the boxes now since those would tend to get neglected for single discs the rest of the time. I haven’t collected many of them but I do like them. The whole of the easy listening world trying to remain contemporary in the 60s and 70s is fascinating to me. You could say that trend began slowly with The Twist craze in the early 60s and then gained steam. Or maybe it was the 3 Bs: Bossa, Bond and Beatles, that signified it was a new era and they had to get with the times. Still don’t have any Rod but my 1st record in that vein was Richard Harris’ A Tramp Shining which was strangely compelling. That was probably my introduction to Jimmy Webb too.

Many of people from Welk's generation spoke two languages. Wisconsin was pretty much a Polish community. My father grew up speaking it but they ditched polish once his grandparents died. There was no need to speak it anymore for them. As that older generation died all the kids stopped speaking it because they wanted to be seen as American not Polish, German, Irish, etc. Now I have friends that are in large groups trying to learn to speak Polish and learn their traditions.

You cracking up while saying Lawrence Welk became more modernized cracked me up. I get it because we're about the same age. :)

Why did you pass up the tiki girl art? Too expensive? Never see anything like that around here at all. I sure am getting behind. Hawaiian BBQ? I still haven’t really even done Korean BBQ yet! You could probably cull together a pretty awesome tour of local, native-to-Hawaii restaurants and cuisine. Thanks for the tours!

Have you ever listened to the Radio Garden station “Candlelight and Wine”? This reminds me of that. Very nice 👍🏻

Is it possible that you could upload more from this album? Honolulu City Lights is a song I heard once and it would be so nice to hear it again. Nevertheless, mahalo for sharing real local sounds.

Hi Your videos are great! Id like to Vlog more but mother nature is not Cooperating right now

Loving the 365 stations here in Point Pleasant Beach New Jersey.

Great Vlog once again. I hope you can continue to incorporate these walk about on your Channel. Mele khalikimaka John.

Ok, this video was an absolute delight to watch. By showing us the places that you talk about, for me is really like putting a face to a name. The food all looked delicious. So fun to see the Savers and different local donations. Of course, the scenery is so pretty there and last but not least, thank you for showing the beautiful Chapel. Watching this from, a very, very chilly North Dakota.

COOL stuff

2024 checking in! Have listened to this album every Christmas since 1963!

Yeah. "Churchy," religious music for Christmas. What a nightmare for you.

A favorite of mine.

Thank You! Thank You!!! Love Hawaii walk around mixed in with candles. I purchased 10 candles at BBBW. 😂😂😂😂

Well, Fresh Orange jets right up my candles of interest list. Nice to have another walk around the place.

Lovely walkabout. Such a pretty view out your windows! I think your cc is trying to tell you something 😂

allbrilliant arrangements, 9:10 i particularly love

I love the strolls with you at the beach and Ala Moana!! I’d love to see more of that. 💖💖💖💖

Ok, this video is fantastic! Nice job with the camerawork, you really made it feel like we were along with you shopping and at the beach. It seemed like we were on the bus with you too. How beautiful the scenery was. Thanks for sharing a glimpse of your corner of the world.

Cool Sir Jon IV

I look forward to your videos, thank you for making them

Might be interesting to see video of your shops or savers, or your bus ride or the beach/ocean where you live...

The serenity of ambiessant sounds

I’ve never kept a diary per se but several years ago I started keeping a general log for tracking exercise and weight, doctor visits, trips made and out of town visitors, natural phenomena (eclipse day, major storms, power outages), any major changes in life circumstances: residences, job, relationships, births, deaths, marriages, etc. The number of things has grown as time goes by. Today, I’m so glad I do it and dearly wish I had kept similar records earlier in life. It does come in handy more often than you think for reference purposes or creating timelines or even just to help with a bad memory. It’s fascinating to look back at what was going on years before, what you were up to, where you were, who the people in your life were at the time. I always just wrote everything down on wall calendars but now I’m starting to digitize more of it. I still do plenty of regular card and letter writing, list making, artwork. They say the best way to learn (and memorize) something is to both read, write and speak it.