THE STUFF WE COULD AFFORD
The WARNERS Christmas Album
At a collectors show one
of our NiteOwls commented facetiously to Peter that he must have a truly
awful voice if Warners didn't get him into an echo chamber to record an
album. Peter reckoned as to how his voice might not be the greatest
but he did have a recording. He sang Winter Wonderland on
the Warners Christmas album. So of course we had to search ebay until
we found one. [Actually in the past two years, three of us found
one each.]
Peter Brown on the Warners Christmas album |
 
Peter appears in song with Warners stars like Dorothy Provine, Roger Moore, Ty Hardin, Poncie Ponce, Robert Conrad, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Eddie Cole, Ray Danton, Connie Stevens, Edd Byrnes and [pictured on back only] Clint Walker who may have been in the midst of his contract dispute when the front picture was shot. |
Peter was probably a little over his head, musically speaking, in this crowd A few of the stars regularly sang on their shows -- in character. Dorothy Provine's numbers were the highlight of the Roaring Twenties and The Alaskans. Connie Stevens and Poncie Ponce regularly did numbers on Hawaiian Eye. Some of the other stars like Efrem Zimbalist Jr. had serious music backgrounds. So what's the verdict on Peter's voice? Well, he stuck to a song suitable for a limited range and had a female chorus to sing the more difficult parts. Given those limits, his voice was quite pleasant, definitely notches above Edd Byrnes, who talked his way thru Yulesville.
