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Seasons Greetings!
And Welcome to our Donald O'Connor Christmas page. You will
find below Donald O'Connor's Christmas related projects, with
a few pictures, some sounds and info.
Christmas with Donald and Debbie (1992)
CD and Audio Cassette
An album of Christmas music with Donald O'Connor and
Debbie Reynolds, featuring Chrissy the Christmas
Mouse, which is a sweet little song... too sweet.
In fact you could just skip the three new songs on this
album (also released separately) and listen to the classic
Christmas Carols, like Jingle Bells, and the
well done Twelve Days of Christmas (Though, on
the eleventh day of Christmas, Donald and Debbie fade
away, not to be heard from again until the four birds
start calling).
1) *Chrissy the Christmas
Mouse
2) *Little Christmas Tree
3) Jingle Bells
4) Narration of The "Night Before Christmas"
5) Medley - The First Noel-Hark The Herald Angels-
Joy To The World
6) We Wish you a Merry Christmas
7) *Christmas Eve Once More
8) Medley - Oh Christmas Tree-Deck the Halls
9) Medley - Here We Come a Carolling-Jolly Old St.
Nicholas
10) The Twelve Days of Christmas
The CD Christmas
with Donald and Debbie is available from Amazon.com.

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The Music of Donald O'Connor (1965?)
LP
Album of Donald O'Connor's compositons recorded by the
Brussels Symphony Orchestra, directed by Fernand Terby,
including, Reflexions d'un Comique (1956), which
Donald conducted at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The
four other tracks are Introduction and Identification,
Donald's Waltz, Here Comes Donald and
Christmas Comes Once Year. This song according
to the liner
notes...
"CHRISTMAS COMES ONCE A
YEAR (5:45)
Mr. Irving Berlin presented Donald with a special
piano which when one plays on the black keys, by just
sliding a lever, the black keys can become the sound
of the white keys.
In introducing "CHRISTMAS COMES ONCE A YEAR" his friends
tried to show how the composition was born, exactly
how Donald conceived it (on the black keys) and the
development that takes place therein so that by its
finale, it has gained all the musical stature that
it deserves. The acrobatics of the adaptations are
very subtly transcribed and a great deal of credit
must go to the musicians themselves."
Years later, in A Time To
Remember he would reprise the tune as Christmas
Can Be Everyday Here is a clip of the older version
Christmas Comes Once
a Year

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