Nat King Cole - Christmas Song
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Artist: Nat King ColeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Capitol
Product features:
- Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song Brazil Import
- The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)
- Deck The Hall
- Adeste Fideles
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- O Tannenbaum
- O Little Town Of Bethlehem
- I Saw Three Ships
- O Holy Night
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- A Cradle In Bethlehem
- Away In A Manger
- Joy To The World
- The First Noel
- Caroling, Caroling
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- Silent Night
- Nat's Christmas Introduction
- The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole with Natalie Cole
- Nat's Christmas Wishes
- The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) - The Nat King Cole Trio
- Toys For Tots
- Happy New Year
Free Music Notes for Christmas Song
Free Music Review: A heartfelt holiday wish from one of the greats.
Hit: 5 Stars
Singing traditional Christmas songs with dignity and feeling, this Nat King Cole holiday album gloriously captures the spirit of the season. Without fireworks, improvisations, catchy rhythms, or unusual variations, Cole gives us songs full of love in his relaxed and unpretentious style. Accompanied by two orchestras and choruses, which are directed by Ralph Carmichael, Cole still manages to keep his style simple and the songs "clean," sometimes slowing the lyrics in order to make them more expressive of the meaning.
"The Christmas Song," written by Mel Torme has always been Cole's biggest Christmas hit, beautifully sung to an accompaniment of piano and strings. "O Holy Night," with a 27-string orchestra, maintains its sense of quiet awe, instead of becoming loudly triumphant (as it is in many other recordings), while "Adeste Fidelis," sung partly in Latin, speaks to the listener on a personal level and invites him/her to "come, let us adore him," instead of demanding it. The jaunty "I Saw Three Ships" and "The First Noel" are sung with an a capella chorus, and two less-recorded songs, "A Cradle in Bethlehem," from England, and "Caroling, Caroling," written in the US by A. E. Burt add new songs to the Christmas repertoire.
The orchestra and choruses here, while large, are used to highlight Nat King Cole's vocal interpretations, instead of making their own statements, and the use of bells, bell lyre, flutes, and harp often add depth to the background while adding emphasis to the lyrics. Traditional and restrained, Cole's album honors the season and its message, an album one could listen to all day without tiring. Mary Whipple
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