V/A - Y'All Come

Have A Country Christmas

(Starday SLP-123) Oct 1960

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This Various Artists compilation from October 1960 includes The Stanley Brothers' Christmas Time Is Near, but the version is different to the one that Starday had previously released as a Christmas single in 1958. Towards the middle of the song, the earlier version features a split banjo/fiddle break, whereas this version has a split banjo/mandolin break.

From checking with Gary B. Reid's liner notes to The King Years, 1961-1965 and his later The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book, it looks like the session date on The King Years, 1961-1965 booklet is wrong, and that this version of the song must date from 1960.^[1]

The entire album can be heard on youtube, and the Stanley's track can be found on The King Years, 1961-1965. (The earlier version can also be heard on The Early Starday/King Years, 1958-1961).

• Carter Stanley: guitar, vocals
• Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
• Curley Lambert?: mandolin
• Ralph Mayo?: fiddle
• ???: bass

For detailed information on the songs/sessions check Gary B. Reid's The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book pages 111, 150.

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[1] Billboard reviewed the album on 24th Oct 1960.