Mixtape Monday: Christmas 1989

Last week, HERC revealed his first ever attempt at a Christmas mixtape and this week he's back with his second attempt.  Two years after Christmas 1987, came Christmas 1989:

Recorded on December 13th, 1989, HERC's second Christmas mix featured 29 songs this time around and many of them were dubbed from compact discs.  There were other changes from the first tape, as well.  HERC is fairly certain he was using a newer tape deck.  Even his beloved SA 90 blank cassettes had undergone a redesign, both the the tape themselves (1987 on right, below) as well as the j-card and packaging, moving from a green theme to a blue one.

Again, HERC did not make any additional copies of Christmas 1989 except one for MRS. HERC to enjoy in her car.  He did take the time to write down the song titles on the tape's j-card and recently spent part of a lovely Autumn afternoon verifying the artists that sang those songs.

The list of Christmas albums released in 1988 and 1989 is brief but HERC bought a few of them as his supportive wife and fellow Christmas music lover again budgeted $50 each year expressly for "Christmas music acquisition."  HERC scrimped and saved to buy the other ones throughout the year.  In 1988, Bob Rivers released his first Christmas comedy album, Twisted Christmas and HERC picked it up without hearing any songs first as none of the local stations were hip to his work yet.  (That would soon change.)  

Also in 1988, HERC received Jingle Bell Rock as part of his subscription to Time-Life's Rock N Roll Era series of CDs. (He also picked up a used copy of Dick Clark's Rock 'n Roll Christmas (double album) (1987), part of the same series, on vinyl at PDQ, wondering why it wasn't released on CD - which it finally was in 1997.)  Sometime before 1989, HERC picked up Rockin' Little Christmas and Leon Redbone's quirky little Christmas Island. Then in 1989, Rhino released Billboard's Greatest Christmas Hits 1955-Present.  HERC supplemented those with a few vinyl purchases such as Soul Christmas (1968), A Motown Christmas (1973) and Have A Merry Chess Christmas (1988).  HERC also dusted off that Time-Life Treasury Of Christmas double CD he had picked up in 1987 and included a few songs from it on Christmas 1989.

		SIDE A		43:56
1981		Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	Bruce Springsteen	04:28
1949		Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer	Gene Autry	02:50
1957		Jingle Bell Rock	Bobby Helms	02:07
1965		My Favorite Things	Supremes	02:48
1970		Someday At Christmas	Jackson 5	02:44
1958		The Little Drummer Boy	Harry Simeone Chorale	03:01
1963		Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)	Darlene Love	02:45
1954		White Christmas	The Drifters	02:39
1963		Little Saint Nick	Beach Boys	02:01
1984		Another Lonely Christmas	Prince	04:54
1969		Christmas Ain't Christmas	The O'Jays	02:16
1957		Blue Christmas	Elvis Presley	02:09
1963		There's Trouble Brewing	Jack Scott	02:39
1984		Last Christmas	Wham!	04:27
1963		Silent Night	Phil Spector	02:08
		SIDE B		46:29
1968		Merry Christmas Baby	Otis Redding	02:36
1967		Jingle Bells	Booker T and The MGs	02:38
1964		A Holly Jolly Christmas	Burl Ives	02:08
1970		Go Tell It On The Mountain	Smokey Robinson & the Miracles	03:45
1942		White Christmas	Bing Crosby	03:04
1968		The Christmas Song	King Curtis	03:10
1958		Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree	Brenda Lee	02:05
1988		Frosty The Snowman	Leon Redbone and Dr. John	01:55
1981		12 Days Of Christmas	Bob and Doug McKenzie	04:45
1970		Feliz Navidad	Jose Feliciano	03:00
1970		I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	Jackson 5	03:01
1973		Step Into Christmas	Elton John	04:32
1984	*	Do They Know It's Christmas? [remix]	Band Aid	06:16
1971		Happy Xmas (War Is Over)	John and Yoko	03:34