Robert Maxwell & His Harp - 40 All-Time Christmas Favorites
This was a from a lot of Christmas records I purchased from a Canadian dealer off eBay earlier this year. Robert Maxwell was a songwriter (he wrote "Ebb Tide") and harpist innovator. This was a man who wired his harp into a light display back in the late 1950s for club appearances and was considered in the same light as Ferrante & Teicher in the way he produced sound from the harp. Maxwell composed a number of songs and instrumental pieces, including the exotica standard, "Ebb Tide," and "Shangri-La," which gave him a Top 40 hit in 1964 after Jackie Gleason began using it on his variety show - a mere 18 years after Maxwell first composed it! Another of Maxwell's pseudonyms is familiar to any fans of "The Ernie Kovacs Show": The Nairobi Trio. Maxwell wrote " Solfeggio: The Song of the Nairobi Trio ," which played along with the recurring bit about the trio of mechanical monkey musicians. I had been looking for a Chris...