Up for Auction is an Australian  first LP Pressing of  
Bing Crosby
"Merry Christmas"
There is not much to say about this pressing apart from
the fact that the record is "NEAR MINT", all the way from 1968!
and
it is a Fairly Rare Australian Pressing
Festival Records Australia- Category Number SFL-930,382 First Pressing in Stereo
The record is in NEAR MINT condition, the record labels are bright, clean and crisp and NEAR MINT TOO!
Th Album jacket has sticker mark, top, left, front and some very slight  faint ring wear marks both back & front it is graded VERY GOOD PLUS (see photos).

Would be NEAR MINT if not for these minor issues
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Bing Crosby ?– Merry Christmas

Label:

Festival Records ?– SFL-930,382

Format:

Vinyl LP, Stereo 

Country:

Australia

Released:

1968

Genre:

Pop

Style:

Vocal

TracklistHide Credits

A1 Silent Night A2 Adeste Fideles (Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful) A3 White Christmas A4 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen A5 Faith Of Our Fathers A6 I'll Be Home For Christmas (If Only In My Dreams) B1 Jingle Bells Backing Vocals – The Andrews Sisters B2 Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Backing Vocals – The Andrews Sisters B3 Silver Bells Vocals – Carole Richards* B4 It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas B5 Christmas In Killarney B6 Mele Kalikimaka Backing Vocals – The Andrews Sisters

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Festival Records Pty. Ltd.
• Distributed By – Festival Records Pty. Ltd.

Credits

• Orchestra – John Scott Trotter And His Orchestra (tracks: A1 to A6, B3 to B5), Vic Schoen And His Orchestra (tracks: B1, B2, B6)

Notes

Licenced by M.C.A. Records, Inc., Universal City, California, U.S.A. 
Manufactured and Distributed by Astor Records Pty Ltd.

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Notes: Original title Merry Christmas later changed to White Christmas. 

When Decca (and the rest of the industry) abandoned the 10-inch LP format in 1955, it created a 12-inch LP version of Merry Christmas, catalogue Decca DL-8128, with four additional songs and the now familiar cover with Crosby in his Santa Claus stocking cap as pictured above. The new songs were "Silver Bells" and "Mele Kalikimaka," both recorded in September 1950, and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" and "Christmas in Killarney," both recorded on October 1, 1951. The album's track listing was also adjusted slightly, with "Faith of Our Fathers" now preceding "I'll Be Home for Christmas." This issue has remained unchanged to present; first pressings of the album were released on Decca's all-black label with the catalog number in the top left corner of the front cover. 

In 1963 the album was made available in electronically re-channeled stereo (with Decca's moniker, "Enhanced for Stereo" added on the upper right corner of the cover), Decca DL-78128. Mono copies made after the introduction of stereo have "DL-8128" in the bottom left corner of the front cover. All copies from the 1960s feature the Decca rainbow label. The mono version was temporarily deleted in 1968. The re-channeled stereo mixes are considered by many to be inferior due to the addition of artificial reverb, giving the once intimate-sounding "dry" original masters a "concert-hall" sound. The reverb is particularly intrusive on tracks such as "Adeste Fideles", "White Christmas", and "Silver Bells." 

In 1973, after MCA merged all their labels (Decca, Uni, Kapp) to one corporate name, MCA Records, the album received a new catalogue number, MCA 167. This version was only available for a short time. Eventually, MCA chose to create a new numbering series for its reissued Christmas albums, and Merry Christmas was assigned MCA 15024. This exists on the black with rainbow, tan, and blue with rainbow labels. While the initial MCA pressings were in re-channeled stereo (as on the post-1963 Decca issues), the original "dry" mono mixes were restored to several of the later MCA pressings- most notably on the blue with rainbow labels. 

In 1986 Merry Christmas was transferred to compact disc, MCAD-31143 and included these same twelve songs in their original mono mixes. Universal Music Group (successor to MCA Records) changed the name of the album to White Christmas, keeping the contents and the catalogue number unchanged. A new mono re-master was made in 1992 and reissued in 1995 (with either Catalog #MCAD 20820, or Catalog #MCAD 31143), and again in 1998 (with Catalog #B0017220-02), which is the one available at present. *Please see the photos above, and note that my photographs form part of the description
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