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I heard this song just today on a just-out compilation on the
Bar/None Records label titled "The American Song-Poem Christmas" and
given the fact that many of these songs have a children's
1950's/1960's adult contemporary holiday theme about them, imagine my
surprise when I heard what sounds like MkII strings and noodling like
something off of Harrison's Wonderwall Music flailing about all
through the song. I thought it might have been the Big Band Beat
Optigan disc for a nanosecond, but the cool thing about this tune was
that you can hear the key attacks loud and clear.

Upon doing a little research (the CD's liner notes tell nothing), I
gfind out the song was the flip of a single from 1977. It sounded
like 1962! I thought I was on to some ancient Chamberlin gem at least.

I wonder why the band was called the "Swinging Strings"? Someone
trying to pull the wool over our eyes on a technicality?