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The holidays are coming down hard upon us and we are all being deluged with carols and other Christmas music.
It was no different in 1960, when Sun Ra, trying to get his fledgling Satur Records up and running, recorded a doo-wop Christmas song. Who actually participated in this session is lost to the foggy mists of time, and who "The Qualities" were, other than Sun Ra himself on harmonium, is not known. But there are little touches to this song that indicate that jazz musicians were in the band, such as the unusual use of wood-block percussion.
The 45-rpm cover, with Sun Ra's head floating over a background of images of the planet Saturn and some sort of Playboy bunny couldn't be less traditionally "Christmas," but this is Sun Ra so what did you expect?
Cheers, and happy holidays, everyone.
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