Beach City Chevrolet Co. / Merry Christmas Carols
The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
- Artist
- The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
- Label
- Record-O-Ad-Corp.
- Catalog number
- GE. 37421
- Format
- 7" · Promo · 45 RPM
- Released
- 1958
- Genre
- Non-Music
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The 1958 Merry Christmas Carols record was produced by Record-O-Ad-Corp. as a promotional gift for customers of the Beach City Chevrolet dealership. During the post-war era, local businesses frequently commissioned exclusive musical pressings to foster community goodwill and solidify brand loyalty among their regional clientele, often utilizing established symphonic groups to lend an air of prestige to their advertising materials.
The recording features the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble known for its frequent collaborations with the Capitol Records label throughout the 1950s. While these sponsored records were functional marketing tools rather than commercial releases, they serve as artifacts of a period when high-fidelity orchestral arrangements were a common luxury used to curate a festive shopping experience for car buyers in Southern California.
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