Bravo, King! I hope “Christmas Favorites” sells millions – for Stu Phillips’ sake and so Capitol realizes the gold mine they’ve been missing all these years. I mean, I’m sure they’re getting a cut of the royalties from CCM’s sales, but still. Shame on them for letting this great music languish in the vaults!

And BTW, for anyone who owns a copy of Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You Can,” (a GREAT period movie practically overflowing with 1960s-era icons that features an even better TRUE LIFE cat & mouse tale of suspense!) I scanned my copy to hear “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” as mentioned by Stu Phillips. Just so you know, the scene doesn’t play out quite like he said it does. The scene he described is close to the end of the movie and the song playing in the background is Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song.” The Hollyridge Strings actually appear much earlier in the film, during chapter 15, at approximately the 1 hour 36 minute mark. The scene features Leonardo DiCaprio’s character sitting in a bar talking to Tom Hanks’ character on the phone. It’s very faint, but you can definitely hear “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” in the background. How cool is that?