Modified: January 10, 2012

Special Christmas Programming 

         Release: RCA Victor UNRM-5697 Special Christmas Programming (LP)
              Artist: Elvis Presley
Release Date: 11/1967

Track Listings: (click here to expand / collapse)

Side 1

Intro: Here Comes Santa Claus
Announcer (Buzz Benson)
Here Comes Santa Claus
Announcer (Buzz Benson)
Blue Christmas
Announcer (Buzz Benson)
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Announcer (Buzz Benson)
Mr. Robertson
Announcer (Buzz Benson)
Silent Night
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Announcer (Buzz Benson)
I Believe
Announcer (Buzz Benson)
If Every Day Was Like Christmas
Announcer (Buzz Benson)
How Great Thou Art
His Hand in Mine
Announcer (Buzz Benson)
Background Music: I'll Be Home For Christmas
Announcer (Buzz Benson)
Elvis: Special Christmas Message
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Announcer (Buzz Benson)

Side 2

blank

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Cover: Front and back. The album is reported to have been released without a sleeve. There is an interesting note about this copy, it was found in New York in 1976 in a blue cover with the insert of the reel to reel tape glued on it. Nobody knows if it belongs to the record and who made it.1

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Disc: White label.2

Matrix number
Side 1: UNRM -5697- 1S (machine stamped) (Rockaway pressing)3

This Special Christmas Programming album has a running time of 28 minutes 45 seconds on a single side of this two sided album. The other side is blank.

billboard 2012 1202 p3 4 small Special Christmas Programming (Elvis Presley)3,000 Stations To Air Presley Yule Program

New York - More than 3,000 stations will broadcast an Elvis Presley Christmas radio program on Dec. 3 and 10. The half-hour program will include selections from his RCA Victor Christmas single "If Every Day Was Like Christmas," two sacred albums and one Christmas album.

A spot announcement by Dale Robertson for Christmas seals also is part of the program. One minute has been left at the end of the program for local public-service announcements. Victor is supplying stations with special program kits containing a 7 1/2 - i.p.s. tape of the program plus a complete script with timings and a separate copy of the single. Being mailed separately are two four-color posters for store use and an ad mat for local tie-ins by dealers and radio stations. Trade and consumer advertising also is slated.

Stations carrying the program also will receive complete Presley disk and 8-track tape CARtridge catalogs, 100 Presley Christmas cards, 50 1968 Presley calendars, a package of Christmas seals, and handbills.

-Billboard Magazine, December 2, 1967, page 3.

 

 

Promotional Material
Features Elvis' Christmas and sacred album and single collection. hear Elvis' special radio program on more than 2,000 stations. Coast-to-Coast ~ Sunday, Dec. 3rd 1967 ~ Coast-to-Coast. Also on Many Other Radio Stations Sunday, Dec. 10th, Coast to Coast. 4

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  1. Images and details from the collection of Christian (of France). ↩
  2. Image from the collection of Christian (of France). ↩
  3. Matrix numbers from the collection of Christian (of France). ↩
  4. Elvis For Christmas, Billboard Music Week. December 2, 1967, p. 45. ↩