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Reading, PA Album ‘Holiday Fruitcake 3’ Just Released Worldwide

By Dave Kline Productions

Dec 01, 2022

Just in time for the 2022 holiday season, Holiday Fruitcake 3, an EP collection of fun, original, alternative holiday songs has been released on the Reading, PA-based Smoking Bishop label, a Dave Kline Productions subsidiary.

Featuring seven new holiday songs, Holiday Fruitcake 3 is the third annual release in the Holiday Fruitcake series.  2020’s Holiday Fruitcake, 2021’s Holiday Fruitcake 2, and this year’s 2022 Holiday Fruitcake 3 are all available on all major digital download platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple iTunes, Deezer, Spotify and YouTube.  CD hard copies of the collections are collector’s items and only available from the bands involved with the projects.  Intentionally produced in very limited quantities, CD copies of Holiday Fruitcake, Holiday Fruitcake 2 and Holiday Fruitcake 3 are not the easiest thing to add to your alternative holiday music collection so if you have an in with one of the bands, make that connection right away to see if you can snag a copy of the project.  Otherwise, digital distribution is available to everyone at the aforementioned digital download music sites.

Holiday Fruitcake’s seven new songs include “Happy Time of Year” by MO7S, “Keep the X in Xmas” by Steve Walker, “When I Come Home for Christmas” and “Hex Highway Christmas Ball” by The Hex Highway Rangers, “Jingle Jangle of the Bells” by Fezie’s Wig, “Santa’s Gone Rockin’ Tonight” and Merry Christmas Hare Krishna” by Busker Incognito & The Christmas Balls.  This year’s tracks were all recorded and mixed at Mount Penn’s Gangsta Beagle Studio, with Dave Lewis handling recording, editing, mixing and mastering.

The annual Holiday Fruitcake project and collection was begun as a response to COVID in 2019.  At that time, many musicians had lost their primary source of income and public exposure almost overnight.  Holiday Fruitcake, a collaboration between Smoking Bishop Records and Gangsta Beagle Studios and all musicians involved, was created to offer a fun and uplifting holiday challenge during which musicians/composers could push themselves to create new, original holiday music for celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Middlemas, Anythingmas and New Year’s.  The results have been so great that the project is now in its third year with the release of Holiday Fruitcake 3 and invitations to create content for Holiday Fruitcake 4 for 2023 have already been sent to select artists. Holiday Fruitcake songs have been picked up and programmed on holiday music Internet stations, playlists, podcasts and blogs.  The Holiday Fruitcake Facebook page link is https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088253375150&mibextid=LQQJ4d

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