1st RECORDING OF: The Little Drummer Boy (aka Carol Of The Drum) - Trapp Family Singers (1951)

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Best-known from the 1958 Harry Simeone Chorale version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_Rb9A7ImM the tune had been loosely based upon a traditional Czech carol which was adapted and published in 1941 by Katherine Davis. The first recorded version was by that “Sound Of Music” family in their album “Christmas with The Trapp Family Singers--Yuletide Songs of Many Lands.”

The original track was issued on Decca album 9553 - Carol Of The Drum (Katherine Davis) by The Trapp Family Singers, conducted by Dr. Franz Wasner, recorded July 23, 1951

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