Amazon has some shrewd marketing techniques.   (But, hey, that's why they're in business, right?)  After Chip posted his notification of the Ed Ames and David Rose CDs being available for pre-order, I went to their website where they had a Kate Smith CD as a recommendation.   (You know how they show you what other customers order based on what you're currently viewing).   Anyway, it occurred to me that I did not have Kate Smith in my collection. 

I was going to ask here on the Yulelog board if the original album had 10 songs as listed on Amazon, or if this was an abridged edition which really irks me.  I remember most albums in the '60s having 12 songs or, at least 11, and thought it wasn't until the '70s when they started cutting back to 10.  Of course, I'm not counting those progressive rock albums where the songs are so long, they only have 3 or 4 songs on each side.

I found this thread and have my answer about the 10 songs, but I was wondering what happened to "O Holy Night."  (It's the embedded video clip in Chip's original post here).  "O Holy Night" is not one of the tracks listed on Amazon. 

The other item I wanted to mention was "Christmas Eve In My Home Town."  As a kid, I remember watching Kate Smith on The Hollywood Palace  hosted by Bing Crosby that Christmas Eve.  It was on a Saturday and, for those of you who live in the Northeast, you may remember we had a foot of snow that year which would turn out to be the only white Christmas for quite a few years... well, at least here in the Mid-Atlantic states.  That was also the first year my family went to Midnight Mass (and, as I recall... the only time.)  We walked to Church and I can still picture how the Christmas lights on some of the neighborhood trees reflected on the snow.  Everyone has special memories of certain Christmases and 1966 was one of mine.

By the way, Philadelphia will always have a soft spot in its heart for Kate Smith.  She sang "God Bless America" in person at some of the Flyers games during their Stanley Cup years in the '70s:
http://www.flyershistory.com/cgi-bin/kate.cgi
Unfortunately, the Spectrum was demolished earlier this year and the statue is in storage.

Jim,

The track listing for that CD-R which is currently being sold by Amazon does not show all of the songs that are in the two medleys that Kate did on the album. Track #3 is a 3-song medley that includes Deck The Halls, Joy To The World and It Came Upon A Midnight Clear; and Track #10 is a 3-song medley that includes The First Noel, Silent Night and O Holy Night.

By the way, I edited my opening post on the thread to remove the link that I had originally posted to Amazon for used copies of the original 1992 RCA reissue CD, as Amazon has now replaced it as of March 2010 with the custom manufactured CD-R.