**Firestone and Goodyear Christmas Albums: Every Volume (2026)**

> Firestone Christmas albums: all seven volumes 1962–1968, artists, catalogue numbers, plus Goodyear's Great Songs of Christmas. Find out what your box is worth.

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# Firestone and Goodyear Christmas Albums: Every Volume, Who's on Them and What They're Worth (2026)

Firestone issued seven Christmas albums between 1962 and 1968 — the "Your Christmas Favorites" / "Voice of Firestone" series sold for about a dollar at tire dealerships — and almost all of them are common, low-value records today. Goodyear ran a parallel series, The Great Songs of Christmas, from 1961 through 1977. Below is every volume of both series with years, artists and catalogue numbers, plus the handful of specific pressings that genuinely are hard to find.

By VinylAI Editorial Updated October 12, 2026

## Key Takeaways

- There are seven Firestone Christmas albums, released annually from 1962 to 1968 and produced by the advertising-jingle firm Forrell & Thomas; Antique Trader (Tim Neely, 16 December 2024) describes all seven as common, with only the 1967 mono version a little harder to find.
- Goodyear's The Great Songs of Christmas ran one album a year from 1961; the 1961 debut was pressed in 900,000 copies and sold out by 1 December, and Billboard (24 December 1966) reported the series had sold roughly 15 million copies at $1.00 each in its first six years. Huge pressings are exactly why these records stay cheap.
- The genuine scarcities are not the main volumes: Firestone's 1988 two-LP "Your Favorite Songs of Christmas: 20th Anniversary Collectors Album" and Goodyear's final two RCA-era LPs (1976–1977) are the hard ones, and Goodyear's 1972 "Christmas Is" matters for containing the first album appearance of the Carpenters' "Merry Christmas Darling."
- If an estate sale produced a box of these, sort them by condition rather than by title: a common sponsored Christmas LP in average, played condition is a dollar-or-two record at a yard sale, so your time is better spent identifying the two or three exceptions and the non-sponsored Christmas titles mixed in with them.

## The Short Answer: Firestone Christmas Albums Are Common and Cheap — With a Few Named Exceptions

If you have just carried a box of tire-company Christmas LPs out of a relative's basement, here is the honest answer before the detail: these are among the most widely distributed records ever pressed in America, and that is precisely why they are worth very little. Antique Trader's Tim Neely, writing on 16 December 2024, puts it plainly — the enormous print runs mean these albums were "cheap in the 1960s" and "remain common and cheap today." Modern Tire Dealer made the same observation back on 1 December 2003, noting that most Goodyear and Firestone holiday LPs "collect dust in attics and thrift-store record bins." Twenty years later nothing has changed.

That is not the whole story, though, and the exceptions are specific rather than vague. Neely names the 1967 Firestone **mono** pressing as somewhat harder to find than its stereo counterpart; the 1988 Firestone two-LP anniversary set as much harder to find than any of the original seven; and Goodyear's last two albums, after the series moved from Columbia Special Products to RCA in 1975, as relatively hard to find. One more title is collected for its content rather than its scarcity: Goodyear's 1972 *Christmas Is*, which carries the first album appearance of the Carpenters' "Merry Christmas Darling." Everything else in that box is a decoration, a listening copy, or a dollar bin record — and there is no shame in any of those three.

## Why Tire Companies Sold Christmas Records in the First Place

The sponsored Christmas LP was one of the smartest retail promotions of the postwar era. A tire dealership is a destination nobody visits for pleasure, so Goodyear and Firestone gave people a reason to walk in during the one month of the year when every household is shopping: a full-length orchestral and vocal Christmas album, with major-label artists on it, for about a dollar — sometimes with a purchase, sometimes simply for stopping by. The records were not label releases in the ordinary sense. They were **custom pressings**, commissioned through the special-products divisions that Columbia, RCA and Capitol ran for exactly this kind of corporate client, with an advertising agency handling the artistic side. Firestone's seven volumes were produced by the jingle house Forrell & Thomas.

![Why Tire Companies Sold Christmas Records in the First Place - firestone goodyear christmas albums value](https://vinylai.app/images/articles/firestone-goodyear-christmas-albums-value/img-1.webp)

The economics worked immediately. Deep Roots Magazine (18 December 2023) reports that Goodyear's first album, in 1961, was pressed in 900,000 copies, stocked nationwide and priced at $1 — and Antique Trader notes it "was completely sold out by December 1," which prompted bigger runs every year after. By 24 December 1966, Billboard was reporting that the Goodyear albums "produced annually for the past six years" had sold approximately fifteen million copies at a dollar each. Those are Beatles-scale numbers for a record you could not buy in a record store, and they explain the market today better than any price guide can. Supply this deep never becomes scarce.

## Firestone Christmas Albums 1962–1968: Every Volume in One Table

The Firestone Christmas record series ran to seven volumes, one a year from 1962 to 1968, sold under titles like *Favorite Christmas Carols from the Voice of Firestone* and *Your Christmas Favorites* — the branding varies slightly from sleeve to sleeve, which is one reason people assume there are more volumes than there are. The artist rosters are genuinely impressive: Risë Stevens and Brian Sullivan with the Firestone Orchestra and Chorus under John Lesko on Volume 1 (1962); Stevens and Sullivan again with the Columbus Boychoir in 1963; Gordon MacRae, Martha Wright, Franco Corelli and Roberta Peters in 1964; Julie Andrews, Vic Damone, Dorothy Kirsten, James McCracken and the Young Americans under Irwin Kostal in 1965; Julie Andrews with André Previn in 1966; and Jack Jones, Roberta Peters and the Vienna Choir Boys in 1967. The table below is built from the Discogs series page for Firestone Presents Your Christmas Favorites (series 1576090), checked 12 October 2026.

| Volume | Year | Title on the sleeve | Credited artists | Catalogue numbers seen | LP versions | Discogs users who own one |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Volume 1 | 1962 | [Favorite Christmas Carols From The Voice Of Firestone](https://www.discogs.com/release/4254614) | The Firestone Orchestra And Chorus, Risë Stevens, Brian Sullivan | `MLP 7005` | 2 | 1,169 |
| Volume 2 | 1963 | [Firestone Presents Your Favorite Christmas Carols Volume 2](https://www.discogs.com/release/2033947) | Risë Stevens, Brian Sullivan And The Columbus Boychoir With The Firestone Orchestra And Chorus | `MLP-7006 / SLP 7006 / SLP-7006` | 7 | 2,334 |
| Volume 3 | 1964 | [Firestone Presents Your Christmas Favorites Volume 3](https://www.discogs.com/release/5159915) | The Columbus Boychoir, The Firestone Chorus, Roberta Peters, Franco Corelli, Martha Wright, Gordon MacRae | `MLP 7008 / SLP 7008` | 6 | 2,474 |
| Volume 4 | 1965 | [Firestone Presents Your Favorite Christmas Music Volume 4](https://www.discogs.com/release/1444906) | Irwin Kostal And The Firestone Orchestra Starring Julie Andrews • Vic Damone ••• Dorothy Kirsten • James McCracken, The Young Americans | `6V-41 / MLP-7011 / SLP 7011 / 6V 40` | 7 | 4,588 |
| Volume 5 | 1966 | [Your Favorite Christmas Carols Volume 5](https://www.discogs.com/release/1500129) | Julie Andrews With André Previn And The Firestone Orchestra And Chorus | `MLP 7012 / SLP 7012` | 9 | 5,826 |
| Volume 6 | 1967 | [Firestone Presents Your Favorite Christmas Music Volume 6](https://www.discogs.com/release/1444893) | Jack Jones • Roberta Peters • Vienna Choir Boys With Irwin Kostal Conducting The Firestone Orchestra And Chorus | `SLP 7014 / MLP 7014` | 8 | 3,252 |
| Volume 7 | 1968 | [Firestone Presents Your Christmas Favorites Volume 7](https://www.discogs.com/release/1444765) | Leontyne Price, Vikki Carr, John Gary, Nicolai Gedda, Vienna Choir Boys, The Firestone Orchestra And Chorus Conducted By Irwin Kostal | `CSLP 7015` | 5 | 1,991 |

Source: Discogs series page, checked 2026-10-12. One row per volume; artists are those credited on the most-collected copy. “Discogs users who own one” adds up the members who log a copy of any LP version — a measure of how common the record is, not a pressing figure and not a price.

Read that table from the right-hand columns first. The owner counts are the single most useful number on this page: when several thousand Discogs users already log owning a given volume, you are not holding a rarity, you are holding a record that half the collectors who want one already have. Note also the number of distinct LP versions per volume — multiple pressings of the same album are another supply signal. The one row worth a second look is 1967, because of the mono/stereo split Antique Trader flags, and the 1966 Julie Andrews/Previn volume, which RCA reissued commercially in 1967 as *A Christmas Treasure* and which Wikipedia describes as one of the largest sellers among these custom recordings. If you are new to sorting pressing variations, our guide to [identifying rare vinyl pressings](https://vinylai.app/guides/how-to-identify-rare-vinyl/) covers the same logic applied to mainstream releases.

## Goodyear's The Great Songs of Christmas: Every Album in One Table

Goodyear started first and ran far longer. **The Great Songs of Christmas** began in 1961 with a line-up that reads like a Columbia Records sampler — Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Percy Faith, André Kostelanetz and Norman Luboff — and continued with a new album every year. Nine numbered volumes appeared from 1961 to 1969, followed by *Best of the Great Songs of Christmas* as the tenth in 1970. These were Columbia Special Products releases; The Second Disc (10 October 2019) lists the catalogue numbers for the first eight as XTV 69406 (1961), XTV 86101 (1962), CSP 117 (1963), CSP 155 S (1964), CSP 238 S (1965), CSS 388 (1966), CSS 547 (1967) and CSS 888 (1968). The table below comes from the Discogs series page for The Great Songs Of Christmas (series 937352), checked 12 October 2026.

![Goodyear's The Great Songs of Christmas: Every Album in One Table - firestone goodyear christmas albums value](https://vinylai.app/images/articles/firestone-goodyear-christmas-albums-value/img-2.webp)

| Album | Year | Title on the sleeve | Credited artists | Catalogue numbers seen | LP versions | Discogs users who own one |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Album 1 | 1961 | [The Great Songs Of Christmas (By Ten Great Artists Of Our Time)](https://www.discogs.com/release/3078991) | Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Eileen Farrell, Luther Henderson And His Orchestra, Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Mitch Miller And The Gang, Earl Wrightson, André Kostelanetz And His Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, … | `—` | 9 | 1,887 |
| Album 2 | 1962 | [The Great Songs Of Christmas](https://www.discogs.com/release/1557647) | Percy Faith, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Eileen Farrell, André Kostelanetz, Nelson Eddy, Norman Luboff Choir, Earl Wrightson, The Philadelphia Orchestra, … | `XTV 86100` | 8 | 2,712 |
| Album 3 | 1963 | [The Great Songs Of Christmas, Album Three](https://www.discogs.com/release/1484409) | Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Julie Andrews, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Percy Faith, Mitch Miller, Isaac Stern, Robert Goulet, … | `CSP 117 / SL-109 / XTV 88656 / MX-144505` | 13 | 3,058 |
| Album 4 | 1964 | [Great Songs Of Christmas (By The Great Artists Of Our Time)](https://www.discogs.com/release/2535141) | Mary Martin, Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Robert Goulet, Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Percy Faith, … | `CSP 155 M / CSP 155 S / CSP 112 / MX146116` | 13 | 3,859 |
| Album 5 | 1965 | [The Great Songs Of Christmas, Album Five](https://www.discogs.com/release/1484383) | Andy Williams, André Kostelanetz, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Maurice Chevalier, Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Richard Tucker, Steve & Eydie, … | `CSP 238 S / CSP 238 M / CSP 120 / CSPS 320` | 13 | 4,978 |
| Album 6 | 1966 | [The Great Songs Of Christmas Album Six](https://www.discogs.com/release/1659045) | Barbra Streisand, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis, The King Family, Pablo Casals, Jan Peerce, Ray Conniff, The New Christy Minstrels, … | `CSM 388 / CSS 388 / CSPS 339 / CSS388` | 12 | 4,011 |
| Album 7 | 1967 | [The Great Songs Of Christmas - Album Seven](https://www.discogs.com/release/722364) | Tony Bennett, Sally Ann Howes, Robert Goulet, The Cleveland Orchestra, Diahann Carroll, Steve Lawrence, The Brothers Four, John Davidson, … | `CSS 547` | 8 | 4,781 |
| Album 8 | 1968 | [The Great Songs Of Christmas, Album Eight](https://www.discogs.com/release/2037760) | Andy Williams, Robert Goulet, Carol Lawrence, Ray Conniff And The Singers, Tony Bennett, Percy Faith And His Orchestra And Chorus, Johnny Mathis, The New Christy Minstrels, … | `CSS 888` | 4 | 4,214 |
| Album 9 | 1969 | [Great Songs Of Christmas, Album Nine](https://www.discogs.com/release/1680653) | Petula Clark, Bing Crosby, Joan Sutherland, Connie Francis, Richard Kiley, Lawrence Welk, London Symphony Orchestra, The Roger Wagner Chorale, … | `CSS 1033` | 2 | 2,118 |
| Best of (compilation) | 1970 | [Best Of The Great Songs Of Christmas By Great Artists Of Our Time](https://www.discogs.com/release/3141125) | John Davidson, New York Philharmonic, Anna Moffo, Richard Tucker, Mahalia Jackson, Isaac Stern, Barbra Streisand, Petula Clark, … | `CSS 1478` | 4 | 1,760 |

Source: Discogs series page, checked 2026-10-12. One row per album; artists are those credited on the most-collected copy. “Discogs users who own one” adds up the members who log a copy of any LP version — a measure of how common the record is, not a pressing figure and not a price.

Two rows reward attention. Album Seven (1967) is the strongest single line-up of the whole run — Tony Bennett, George Szell with the Cleveland Orchestra, Sally Ann Howes, Jerry Vale, John Davidson, Robert Goulet, the New Christy Minstrels and Barbra Streisand on one $1 record — and Album Nine (1969) carried two new Petula Clark recordings, which is the kind of detail that creates demand from single-artist collectors rather than Christmas collectors. People searching for Goodyear Christmas albums value by year are usually hoping the table is also a price list; it is not, and it cannot be, because no published source assigns a dollar figure to individual volumes. What the table does give you is identification: which volume you hold, which pressing it is, and how many other people own one. For the valuation side, work from our [vinyl record value guide](https://vinylai.app/guides/vinyl-record-value-guide/) and from completed sales, not from asking prices.

## After 1970: Goodyear's Later Titles and Firestone's Capitol Sticker Albums

The series did not stop at the numbered volumes, which is where most online lists fall apart. Goodyear offered a new album every year from 1961 through 1977. After the 1970 *Best of*, each release carried a different name: *Joyous Songs of Christmas* (1971), *Christmas Is* (1972), *Many Moods of Christmas* (1973), *Carols and Candlelight* (1974), *Henry Mancini Selects Great Songs of Christmas* (1975), *Mancini Moods at Christmastime* (1976) and *Great Songs of Christmas with Perry Como and Eugene Ormandy* (1977). Antique Trader notes the series moved from Columbia to RCA in 1975 and that the last two LPs are relatively hard to find — a useful reminder that in sponsored series, the end of a run is often scarcer than the beginning.

Firestone's post-1968 Christmas records are the trickiest items on this whole subject, because they are not obviously Firestone records at all. The company's 1970s holiday albums came out on Capitol — *Christmas America* (1973) and its *Album Two* (1974), *The Wonderful World of Christmas* (1975) and its *Album Two* (1976) — and the only thing distinguishing the Firestone promotional copies from ordinary Capitol stock is a red "Seasons Greetings Firestone" sticker applied to the shrink-wrap. No sticker, no shrink, no Firestone connection. If you are buying one of these as a Firestone item, buy it sealed or do not buy it at all. Separately, the single rarest Firestone Christmas release is the 1988 two-LP *Your Favorite Songs of Christmas: 20th Anniversary Collectors Album*, which Antique Trader describes as much harder to find than the original seven.

## Other Company Christmas Records of the Era: True Value, W.T. Grant and More

Once Goodyear proved the format, every retailer with a counter and a Christmas season tried it. If your estate-sale box contains tire-company LPs, it very likely contains hardware-store and department-store ones too, and the same rules apply: enormous distribution, negligible value, with scarcity concentrated at the tail end of each run.

![Other Company Christmas Records of the Era: True Value, W.T. Grant and More - firestone goodyear christmas albums value](https://vinylai.app/images/articles/firestone-goodyear-christmas-albums-value/img-3.webp)

| Sponsor | Series | Run | Notes worth knowing |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Goodyear | The Great Songs of Christmas | 1961–1977 | Nine numbered volumes, a Best Of (1970), then individually titled albums; moved Columbia → RCA in 1975 |
| Firestone | Your Christmas Favorites / Voice of Firestone | 1962–1968 | Seven volumes; 1988 two-LP anniversary set is the hard one |
| True Value | Happy Holidays | 1965–2005 | Reached Volume 40; Volume 24 (1989) scarce on vinyl, Volume 25 (1990) rare |
| W.T. Grant | A Very Merry Christmas | 1967 onward | Eight volumes |
| Others | Various | 1960s–1970s | Zenith, Philco, JC Penney, Beneficial Finance, Acme Markets, Avon, Ace Hardware and several airlines |

The True Value row is the one to internalise, because it is the clearest illustration of how sponsored-series scarcity actually works. The series ran for four decades, which means the 1960s and 1970s volumes were pressed in vinyl-era quantities while the late-1980s volumes were caught in the switch to CD — hence Antique Trader flagging Volume 24 (1989) as scarce on vinyl and Volume 25 (1990) as rare. The last vinyl pressings in a long series are often the sleepers. For context on which holiday records genuinely command money, see our round-up of [Christmas vinyl records worth money](https://vinylai.app/guides/christmas-vinyl-records-worth-money/).

## What Makes One Firestone or Goodyear Christmas Record Worth More Than Another

With prices this compressed, the usual drivers of record value barely register — but they are not zero, and knowing them tells you which three or four discs to pull out of the box. In rough order of how much they matter for this specific category:

1. **Condition of the sleeve, not the disc.** These albums lived in attics and under Christmas trees. Ring wear, split seams and water staining are near-universal, so a genuinely clean, flat, bright sleeve is the scarce part. Grade honestly using standard [vinyl grading standards](https://vinylai.app/guides/vinyl-grading-guide/) — Goldmine's VG/VG+/NM scale is what buyers expect to see quoted.
2. **Mono versus stereo.** Mono LPs were being phased out across the industry in the late 1960s, so late mono runs are the smaller population — the reason Antique Trader singles out the 1967 Firestone mono.
3. **Content that crosses over to another collecting base.** Goodyear's 1972 *Christmas Is* is collected by Carpenters completists for "Merry Christmas Darling"; the 1969 volume by Petula Clark collectors. That demand is not about Christmas at all.
4. **Late-run volumes.** Goodyear 1976 and 1977; Firestone's 1988 set; True Value Volumes 24 and 25.
5. **Still sealed.** For the 1970s Firestone Capitol titles this is effectively mandatory, since the red shrink-wrap sticker is the only proof of what you have.

One identification tip that costs nothing: Fonts in Use (25 December 2024), citing Discogs, notes that Firestone volumes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 were manufactured by RCA's custom records division while volumes 4 and 6 came from Capitol. Checking the manufacturing credit in the dead wax and on the label is a fast way to confirm you have an original rather than a later reissue sleeve with a swapped disc inside. Tools like VinylAI let you scan the barcode or snap the label to pull up the exact Discogs release and pressing details before you decide what is worth listing.

## What a Box of Them From an Estate Sale Is Worth — and Should You Sell?

Here is a practical triage for a crate of sponsored Christmas LPs. First, pull every record with a tire company, hardware chain or department-store name on it into one stack — that stack is, as a rule of thumb, a dollar-or-two-each stack at a garage sale or a bulk lot on a local marketplace, and no published source gives a higher figure for any of the seven Firestone volumes or the main Goodyear volumes. Second, pull the four named exceptions: Firestone 1988 anniversary set, Firestone 1967 mono, Goodyear 1976 and 1977, plus any still-sealed 1970s Capitol title with the red Firestone sticker intact. Third — and this is where the real money usually hides — look at what else is in the box, because households that bought dollar Christmas records also bought Sinatra, Elvis, Mantovani and, occasionally, something from the [most valuable vinyl records](https://vinylai.app/guides/most-valuable-vinyl-records/) end of the market.

Should you sell the common ones individually? Usually not. Shipping a single LP in the US costs more than the record is worth, and listing time is a real cost. Sell them as a lot of ten or twenty with honest photographs of the sleeves, or keep them — they are genuinely enjoyable December listening, with real orchestras and real singers, and they belong on the "play it, don't vault it" side of any collection. Our guide to [the best Christmas albums on vinyl](https://vinylai.app/guides/best-christmas-albums-on-vinyl/) is a good companion if you want to build a holiday shelf, and if the whole crate landed on you at once, [what to do with an inherited record collection](https://vinylai.app/guides/inherited-a-vinyl-record-collection/) and our notes on [how to sell vinyl records](https://vinylai.app/guides/how-to-sell-vinyl-records/) will save you a weekend of guesswork.

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Table of Contents

- The Short Answer: Firestone Christmas Albums Are Common and Cheap — With a Few Named Exceptions
- Why Tire Companies Sold Christmas Records in the First Place
- Firestone Christmas Albums 1962–1968: Every Volume in One Table
- Goodyear's The Great Songs of Christmas: Every Album in One Table
- After 1970: Goodyear's Later Titles and Firestone's Capitol Sticker Albums
- Other Company Christmas Records of the Era: True Value, W.T. Grant and More
- What Makes One Firestone or Goodyear Christmas Record Worth More Than Another
- What a Box of Them From an Estate Sale Is Worth — and Should You Sell?

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## FAQ: firestone christmas albums

How many Firestone Christmas albums are there?

There are seven, issued one per year from 1962 to 1968 and produced by the advertising-jingle firm Forrell & Thomas. Beyond those seven, Firestone also put its name on four Capitol Christmas LPs in 1973–1976, identifiable only by a red "Seasons Greetings Firestone" shrink-wrap sticker, and released a two-LP *Your Favorite Songs of Christmas: 20th Anniversary Collectors Album* in 1988. A "Volume 8" of the original series is not verified.

Are old Christmas albums worth money?

Some are, but the sponsored tire-company and hardware-store series generally are not. Antique Trader's Tim Neely (16 December 2024) explains that Goodyear's 1961 debut sold out a 900,000-copy run by 1 December, which led to even larger pressings in later years — so these albums were cheap then and remain common and cheap now. Value in vintage Christmas vinyl sits in specific early pressings of famous albums instead — the 1957 gatefold of [Elvis' Christmas Album](https://vinylai.app/guides/elvis-christmas-album-vinyl-value/) or the 1963 Philles original of [A Christmas Gift for You](https://vinylai.app/guides/phil-spector-christmas-gift-for-you-vinyl/).

What are some of the best vintage Christmas vinyl albums?

For listening rather than investment, the sponsored series are better than their prices suggest: Goodyear's Album Seven (1967) alone has Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Robert Goulet, Jerry Vale and George Szell with the Cleveland Orchestra. Firestone Volume 5 (1966) pairs Julie Andrews with André Previn and was reissued commercially by RCA in 1967 as *A Christmas Treasure*. Volume 4 (1965) adds Vic Damone, Dorothy Kirsten and James McCracken under Irwin Kostal.

What is the Great Songs of Christmas album on vinyl?

It is Goodyear's annual Christmas LP series, sold at Goodyear tire stores from 1961 for about $1. The albums were Columbia Special Products pressings; The Second Disc (10 October 2019) lists catalogue numbers from XTV 69406 (Album One, 1961) through CSS 888 (Album Eight, 1968). Nine numbered volumes ran to 1969, a *Best of* followed in 1970, and individually titled albums continued annually through 1977.

Which Goodyear Christmas album is the most valuable?

No published source assigns dollar values to individual volumes, but two stand out. Antique Trader notes the series moved from Columbia to RCA in 1975 and that the final two LPs — 1976's *Mancini Moods at Christmastime* and 1977's Perry Como/Eugene Ormandy album — are relatively hard to find. The most sought-after on content grounds is 1972's *Christmas Is*, which carries the first album appearance of the Carpenters' "Merry Christmas Darling."

Who sang on the Firestone Christmas albums?

Volume 1 (1962) and Volume 2 (1963) featured Risë Stevens and Brian Sullivan, with the Columbus Boychoir joining on Volume 2. Volume 3 (1964) added Gordon MacRae, Martha Wright, Franco Corelli and Roberta Peters. Volume 4 (1965) brought Julie Andrews, Vic Damone, Dorothy Kirsten, James McCracken and the Young Americans; Volume 5 (1966) paired Andrews with André Previn; Volume 6 (1967) featured Jack Jones, Roberta Peters and the Vienna Choir Boys.

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Table of Contents

- The Short Answer: Firestone Christmas Albums Are Common and Cheap — With a Few Named Exceptions
- Why Tire Companies Sold Christmas Records in the First Place
- Firestone Christmas Albums 1962–1968: Every Volume in One Table
- Goodyear's The Great Songs of Christmas: Every Album in One Table
- After 1970: Goodyear's Later Titles and Firestone's Capitol Sticker Albums
- Other Company Christmas Records of the Era: True Value, W.T. Grant and More
- What Makes One Firestone or Goodyear Christmas Record Worth More Than Another
- What a Box of Them From an Estate Sale Is Worth — and Should You Sell?

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