Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week brings new remixes from Pet Shop Boys, old remixes from INXS, plus rare folk, jazz and alt-rock favorites - plus another bounty of unusual Christmas albums and EPs!

Pet Shop Boys, New London boy / All the young dudes EPs (x2/Parlophone)

Standard: iTunes / Amazon
Remixes: iTunes / Amazon

A new double A-side single from Pet Shop Boys' 15th album Nonetheless - released earlier this year - is physically due next week; but you can stream or download the new single now: the track "New London boy" and an otherwise unavailable cover of Mott The Hoople's David Bowie-penned "All the Young Dudes." Extra tracks between both versions of the single include remixes and studio tracks "Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus" (a Japanese bonus track from Nonetheless) and the previously unreleased "Beauty has laid siege to the city."

Judy Collins, Fires of Eden (Columbia) (iTunes / Amazon)

Folk icon Judy Collins issued only one album for Columbia - 1990's Fires of Eden - and it's now digitally available after a long absence. Produced by longtime Atlantic Records producer Joel Dorn (a double Grammy winner for Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song") and Carly Simon's sister Lucy, the album featured spirited originals like epic opener "The Blizzard" as well as covers of "The Air That I Breathe" (made famous by The Hollies) and "From a Distance" (featured on her 1989 live album Sanity and Grace and a major hit for Bette Midler shortly after Fires was released).

Savoy, Reasons to Stay Indoors (Virgin) (iTunes / Amazon)

After last week's solo single from Magne Furuholmen, we have another a-ha related digital drop! The Norwegian band's main songwriter, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, is also well-known in his home country as part of the band Savoy, featuring his wife Lauren on rhythm guitar and vocals and drummer Frode Unneland. Their fourth album, 2001's Reasons to Stay Indoors - originally released by EMI - is now digitally available worldwide, newly remastered with alternate artwork.

INXS, Original Sin (Ian Green Remix) (Petrol/Atlantic) (iTunes / Amazon)

The last legs of All Juiced Up Part 2 continue with a rare 1995 house-flavored remix of INXS' classic "Original Sin," released in the wake of a greatest hits album the year before.

Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra, The Essential Claude Thornhill - The Columbia Years (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon)

A prolific jazz pianist and big band leader, Claude Thornhill's influence is perhaps most detected through Miles Davis' landmark The Birth of the Cool sessions. (Thornhill employed Gil Evans as an orchestrator, and Miles valued the orchestra's impressionistic, harmonic style, utilizing unique instrumentation.) This two-hour overview offers dozens of lovely standards, and kicks off with Thornhill's best-known original composition, "Snowfall." Which, of course, brings us to...

That's right! It's another assortment of Christmas albums beneath our digital tree. There's a lot of really unique stuff in here this week as we get even closer to December 25!

Rosemary Clooney, Sings Songs from White Christmas and Other Yuletide Favorites (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon)

One of the most enduring singers of the early '50s, Rosemary Clooney also had an indelible connection to the holiday season thanks to her turn opposite Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye in the 1954 film White Christmas. Here, a dozen of her festive Columbia sides are presented, including collaborations with Gene Autry ("The Night Before Christmas Song," "Look Out the Window"), the orchestras of Paul Weston ("Winter Wonderland") and Tony Mottola ("Suzy Snowflake") - and, of course, her own take on Irving Berlin's enduring classic, with vocal backing by The Mellomen, a well-known vocal group heard in countless Walt Disney projects and featuring the notable voices of baritone Bill Lee (who'd sing for John Kerr in the film version of South Pacific) and bass Thurl Ravenscroft (known for everything from Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger to his own immortal holiday number: "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the animated television adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!).

Al Hirt, White Christmas / Hooray for Santa Claus (RCA Victor) (iTunes / Amazon)

While the king of the Dixieland trumpet would bring his honey horn sound to holiday standards on 1965's The Sound of Christmas, the album did not offer either side of a single released the season before: a take on Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" plus the a version of song "Hooray for Santa Claus," infamously written for the low-budget schlockfest Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Now it, and its delightfully kitschy cover art, are available digitally.

Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy Doody's Christmas Party (RCA Victor) (iTunes / Amazon)

Say kids, what time is it? This 1951 single featured the cast of the hit NBC children's television show - including Howdy Doody, Bob, the often-mute Clarabelle the Clown, Doodyville mayor Phineas T. Bluster and Inspector John J. Fadoozle - ringing in the merriest season.

Father Sydney MacEwan, Christmas Carols (RCA Victor) (iTunes / Amazon)

From 1956, this LP offers classic, organ-backed carols courtesy of the gifted Scottish tenor who received his ordination during World War II and balanced his priestly Catholic duties with a mid-century period of recording and touring across the globe for rapt audiences.

Arthur Lynds Bigelow & Majorie MacComb, Ring! Christmas Bells (Columbia) (iTunes / Amazon)

More traditional carols abound on this 1956 LP that takes its title literally: Bigelow was the bell master of Princeton University and MacComb played organ for the Faith Church of Springfield, Massachusetts. An old-fashioned Christmas, indeed!

Leonard MacClain, Joy to the World (Epic) (iTunes / Amazon)

And how about some more retro holiday sounds? Leonard MacClain was a Philadelphia organist who recorded several albums for the three-year-old Epic label in 1956. These piped-up medleys offer traditional fare as well as newer Christmas standards like "Sleigh Ride," "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" and "Jingle Bells."

Kenny Bowers, Little Star of Bethlehem (and the Toy Box) (Columbia) (iTunes / Amazon)

Finally, this 1957 oddity offers original suites by children's composers Paul Tripp and George Kleinsinger - one of which is performed by the David Randolph Chorus and an "orchestra of ancient instruments," the other narrated by Bowers with backing from the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra.