Christmas Classics
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) - Nat King Cole
- Baby, It's Cold Outside - Dean Martin
- Winter Wonderland - Bing Crosby
- The Christmas Waltz - Nancy Wilson
- I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Les Brown And His Band of Renown
- The Merriest - June Christy
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Lou Rawls
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Lena Horne
- (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag - Kay Starr
- Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Johnny Mercer With The Pied Pipers
- Happy Holiday - Peggy Lee
- Sleigh Ride - Ferrante & Teicher
- I'd Like You For Christmas - Julie London
- It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Ella Fitzgerald
- All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) - The Nat King Cole Trio
- Auld Lang Syne - Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians
Free Music Notes for Christmas Classics
Free Music Review: a charming holiday album
Hit: 5 Stars
Christmas Classics, a partial re-release of an earlier holiday album entitled Let It Snow, is truly one of the nicest Christmas albums I've come upon so far. There are a number of wonderfully talented artists on this album and every song is a delight; there's not a dud in the bunch. Sure, some tracks were left out from the original release; yet what we do get is nothing but the very best in classic holiday music. The quality of the sound is excellent and the artwork is very nice.
Nat "King" Cole's "The Christmas Song" begins the track set with one of the very best holiday numbers even performed; Nat truly owns this song and he never lets go of a single superfluous note. This number moves me, too; this music is all THAT good. Dean Martin's "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is extremely well done; and that backup chorus enchants me as well--not that Dean really needed backup but they do sound very good anyway. Bing Crosby's "Winter Wonderland" is yet another charmer; Bing could really croon and he still sounds perfect even after all these years!
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" gets the royal treatment from Les Brown & His Band of Renown; ooh, how they do this one up right! The jazzy arrangement works wonders for this melody. Lou Rawls also does a sublime job on the classic "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas;" this number was first sung by Judy Garland in the MGM movie "Meet Me in Saint Louis;" and I would like to think that Judy surely would have approved of Lou's rendition of this song! In addition, Kay Starr's treatment of "(Everybody's Waitin' for) The Man with the Bag" just couldn't have been any better; Kay's voice is as clear as a bell and when you hear this it becomes no secret why she was one of the best songbirds of the entire twentieth century.
Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers perform "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" with lots of positive energy and it's a great highlight of this album. How's about that brass? It all holds its own very well; I love this tune especially when these pros deliver it so very well! Peggy Lee's "Happy Holiday" was a number that had to grow on me somewhat; the arrangement is different than the one I'm used to but it's actually a pretty neat number with Peggy swinging brightly to make this tune shine bright! Listen also for the great Julie London to deliver "I'd Like You For Christmas;" oh, wow, how the guys loved to hear Julie sing and a number of hers on this album helps to make the CD special.
Ella Fitzgerald does great justice to `It Came Upon a Midnight Clear;" Ella never disappointed her fans and she sounds just great on this track. The King Cole Trio does the playful "All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth);" and the album ends with Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians performing "Auld Lang Syne." What a fine way to end this amazing album!
Christmas Classic is certainly a terrific addition to anyone's holiday music collection. I highly recommend it.
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Travel back in time with the big bands and singers of an era some 50 years in the past. On Christmas Classics, Les Brown and His Band of Renown, Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers, Kay Starr (making sure you know that "Everybody's Waitin' for the Man with the Bag"), Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, and others recall a place and time that lives on in the Christmases of the 21st century. While there's a comforting quaintness to Ferrante & Teicher's instrumental of "Sleigh Ride" and a campy breathlessness in Julie London's "I'd Like You for Christmas," this is an album you can use to introduce the grandkids to a more innocent and sentimental age. Besides, if you can't appreciate Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians' "Auld Lang Syne," you're probably being haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Present big time. --Martin KellerBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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