Popular Songs of Christmas & New Year's

Popular Songs of Christmas & New Year's

Track Listings

1. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

2. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

3. Skater's Waltz

4. Christmas Song

5. Medley: Christmas Time's a Coming/Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

6. Medley: The Holly and the Ivy/The Cherry Tree Carol

7. Apple Blosom Time

8. White Christmas

9. Medley: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!/Winter Wonderland

10. Remember

11. Christmas Time Is Here

12. Do You Hear What I Hear?

13. I'll Be Home for Christmas

14. Waltz You Saved for Me

15. Medley: Deck the Halls/We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Editorial Reviews
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The remarkable acoustic guitarist really stretches out on this generous 19-song compendium of holiday tunes guaranteed to jog the memory and make you ponder why these songs aren't heard more often. Fahey (joined here and there by second guitarist Terry Robb) plucks his way lovingly through carols such as "Do You Hear What I Hear?" and "Jolly Old Saint Nick," his unique style ever-so-subtly evoking the ambiance of bygone days. Fahey also brings a smile via non- traditional songs like "Skater's Waltz" and "The Holly and the Ivy," making this the kind of disc you can slip on any time of year for a quick, wintry pick-me-up. --David Sprague

Tracks:

Jingle Bells
Let It Snow
The Christmas Song
Winter Wonderland
I'll Be Home For Christmas
Christmas Time Is Here
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
White Christmas
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
Sleigh Ride
Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep

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As the song goes, "Merry Christmas" has already "been said many times, many ways." Diana Krall's Christmas Songs is a worthy--though not particularly unique--addition to the holiday catalog. On it, she excels with an approach mastered long ago: elegant delivery that gives extra polish to a very familiar lineup. Some might find her style frosty at times, but that will come as a relief to those who want their carolers to cut through some of the holiday treacle and create a festive, yet grown-up vibe. And Krall does show off her playful side with little, personal touches. In "Winter Wonderland" she promises to "frolic and play the Canadian way," which should draw smiles from her native land. (That'll mean toasting the holiday with Molson, eh?) Elsewhere, she ends "Jingle Bells" with the girlishly giddy statement, "I'm just crazy about horses." Well…can't argue with that. --Leah Weathersby

Customer Reviews:

Christmas Songs.......2007-05-13

The product is what I expected. It arrived on time and in the condition advertised.

YeeHaa. Merry Christmas........2007-02-22

Hot babe. Good Jazz.

Helluva voice.

Nice take on some well-worn standards.

This and the Vince Guarldi Charlie Brown Christmas album are the only two Christmas albums that should be given to everybody who ever bought a CD player, Ipod, whatever.

Nice dress.

Elvis Costello (Mr. Diana Krall) better thank God every day.

I proudly listen to this album at non-Christmas times of the year, by the way. When it plays at work, someone almost always stops and says "Who is THAT?"; never "Why are you listening to Christmas music in June?". That's the power of the voice and arrangements we're dealing with, here.

Thank you for coming into my life, if only as a beautiful voice. And what a voice!

If you like Diana Krall you'll probably hate this review........2007-01-26

I love Diana Krall's voice, style, the music she chooses to record, and the polish of her music. I have all her CDs and they're great. So, when I got this CD at Christmas 2005 I was really disappointed. Look, it's OK, I guess, but not up to her usual standards. There's no enthusiasm here (except for the false enthusiasm of her fingernail-on-chalkboard tittering "I'm just crazy 'bout hooorses").

Rather than write it off as just average I decided to give it a whirl again for Christmas '06, and had the same reaction. Guys might like this CD for her recumbent "come hither and unwrap THIS present" look and posture on the CD packaging, but there's little to come hither for inside.

Have Diana Krall over for the holidays. .......2007-01-21

If your into Diana Krall and your into Christmas, Then this CD is a MUST! It's everything you want in your Jazz Christmas collection.

Christmas Songs/Diana Krall.......2007-01-19

Good CD -- only thing I didn't care for was "scat" on a couple of songs --

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More Dino Nostalgia From The Capitol Days
Let It Snow

Christmas Songs
Dean Martin
Manufacturer: Christmas Legends
ProductGroup: Music
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Release Date: 2004-10-04

Tracks:

I'll Be Home For Christmas
Jingle Bells
Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow
Blue Christmas
Winter Wonderland
White Christmas
Silver Bells
Silent Night
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Christmas Blues
Canadian Sunset
Out In The Cold Again
Baby It's Cold Outside
It Won't Cool Off

Album Description

Import exclusive compilation featuring 'I'll Be Home For Christmas', 'Jingle Bells', 'Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow', & many more. Christmas Legends. 2004. Christmas Legends. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

More Dino Nostalgia From The Capitol Days.......2007-01-18

One of many RR of the LPs "A Winter Romance" and "Holliday Cheer".
This time with a great cover from the younger Dino days.
Often is the cover a "flop" on this RRs but in this case its a "hit"
Roland

Let It Snow.......2006-07-16

I love the Dean Martin version of "Baby It's Cold Outside," which is included in this excellent collection. Dean's range and versatility are in full display here, and I'm glad the producers focused as they did on his early career.

You'll love it, and it's out just in time for the holidays.

A Winter Garden: Five Songs For The Season

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Lullay, lullay

A Winter Garden: Five Songs For The Season
Loreena McKennitt
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ASIN: B000J233UI
Release Date: 2006-11-14

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Good King Wenceslas
Snow
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Customer Reviews:

Lullay, lullay.......2006-11-15

Finally -- a Christmas album that doesn't include "Jingle Bells," "Joy to the World" or "Let It Snow." I'm so bloody sick of those songs. Instead, Loreena McKennitt looks back on an almost-forgotten time when Christmas was a sacred day full of beauty and magic, in the all-too-brief but very lovely EP "A Winter Garden."

It opens with the soothing, lullaby-like "Coventry Carol," before heading to the majestic catchiness of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and utterly enchanting "Good King Wenceslas," where a saintly king and his servant travel on foot to bring food and firewood to a poor woodsman's family. It's a beautiful little song, and the sprightly tune makes it even more so.

A smoother, softer tone comes in with "Snow," the musical adaptation of a poem by nineteenth-century Canadian poet Archibald Lampman. It's a frosty, beautiful portrait of a winter evening, without any direct reference to Christmas, but its formal tone fits in. The EP rounds off with the traditional "Seeds of Love," a sweet little love song.

Christmas is one of those holidays swamped by commercial profit and not by the traditions and beliefs behind it. So it's refreshing to hear songs that don't bring to mind mall muzak -- instead, McKennitt's EP make you think of wassail, medieval castles, cathedrals draped in holly, and blankets of snow over dark forests.

"A Winter Garden" was recorded over a few days in the summer of 1995, in Wiltshire's recording studios. It sounds pretty laid-back, and the relaxed tone of the results shows it. Her selection of songs is excellent -- four are traditional ballads, rich and underused by most singers. I'm not quite sure why she included "Seeds of Love," which while a lovely song, has no reference to Christmas or wintertime.

McKennitt not only provides her rich vocals, but also plays the harp and adds some keyboard flourishes. Backing her is Rich Lazar's medieval-sounding percussion, Hugh Marsh's violin and Caroline Lavelle's cello -- among others. There are also acoustic guitars, bass, viola, and pipes, which all are woven into a sort of medieval-pop.

While a full-length Christmas album can be found in "To Drive the Cold Winter Away," the "Winter Garden" EP is an enchanting, atmospheric listen that gives a whole new look at Christmas carols.

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ok, THIS is Loreena McKennitt's CHRISTMAS Album
Great Artist!
wonderful
a winter garden
beautiful!

A Winter Garden: Five Songs For The Season
Loreena McKennitt
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God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
Snow
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Loreena McKennitt's "songs for the season" are haunting for their beauty and her fascinating voice. Blending traditional Irish music with worldbeat and New Age-like instrumentation, McKennitt's arrangements are at once elegant and eloquent, enchanting and familiar, whether she's singing "Coventry Carol," "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen," or "Good King Wenceslas." "Snow," adapted from a 19th-century poem, and the traditional "Seeds of Love" are so lofty and deep they reach almost mystical places. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews:

ok, THIS is Loreena McKennitt's CHRISTMAS Album.......2007-06-16

Everyone considers Loreena McKennitt's "To Drive the Cold Winter Away" her Christmas album. I ask people not to call it that, it is more than that, it is music for the whole season from leaf-fall to buds and sprouts in the spring.

This, then, is her Christmas album. Although short, at only five songs, it is a well thought-out album, and a definite "Must-Have" and a "Keeper". The songs here are wonderful, not your standard fare for Christmas, so it is a fresh experience, something always welcome with music for this time of the year, don't you think? Her accompanyment, here, is harp only, so everything is light and open, just right, and soothing after all the crash and bang regular Christmas music......I mean, how many times can one listen to Silver Bells, Jingle Bells, and Here Comes Santa Claus before you just wanna scream "STOP!", huh?

Pick this album up, take it home, and slip in between some other Christmas albums, and be prepared to go "WOW!....That's Nice!", and to also find a new favorite Christmas album. ~operabruin

Great Artist!.......2007-05-14

This is an awesome holiday / winter / Christmas CD. It is short (only 5 songs) but it is full of voice and enough to set the mood perfectly. Not traditional versions of the songs, but none the less beautiful.

wonderful.......2007-01-20

This is THE Christmas album to have.Loreena McKennitt's hauntingly beautiful voice and the wonderful arrangements of traditional Christmas songs has made this our most listened to Christmas album in the last few years.I like to play this album any time of the year as it is very peaceful and relaxing to hear.

a winter garden.......2007-01-11

I love Loreena McKennitts' music. this CD is very melodic in a Celtic way. the music on this CD is also very mellow listening. I love the rhythms of the instruments used.

beautiful!.......2006-12-31

The only reason I gave this item "4 stars" is because it only has the 5 songs on it - I wish it had more. However, it's still worth buying. The songs are hauntingly beautiful, in McKennitt's signature style. If you enjoy her music, this album won't disappoint. I recommend it! :-)

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Holiday treats from the Andrews Sisters with Bing and Danny

Songs for Christmas
Andrews Sisters
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ASIN: B00065VSIM
Release Date: 2004-10-04

Tracks:

Winter Wonderland
Sleigh Ride
Jingle Bells (Ft Bing Crosby)
Christmas Candles
Merry Christmas Polka
Twelve Days Of Christmas (Ft Bing Crosby)
Here Comes Santa Claus (Ft Bing Crosby)
Jung-A-Ling Jing-A-Ling
Christmas Tree Angel
(The Toys Gave A Party For) Poppa Santa (Ft Bing Crosby)
Merry Christmas At Grandmother's (Ft Danny Kaye)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Ft Bing Crosby)
Christmas Island
Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow

Album Description

Import exclusive compilation featuring 'Winter Wonderland', 'Sleigh Ride', & 'Jingle Bells' with Bing Crosby. Christmas Legends. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

Holiday treats from the Andrews Sisters with Bing and Danny.......2004-12-05

The Andrews Sisters were far and away the most successful female vocal group for the first half of the 20th century, with over a hundred singles on the charts. The secret of their success was an infectious, close-harmony style involving intricate vocal arrangements that suited the swing bands of that era. When World War II came along their tone matched perfectly the optimism the times needed, personified by their signature song, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." It is not surprising that LaVerne, Maxene and Patty produced a couple of Christmas albums during their time. "Winter Wonderland" brings together some choice selections from their holiday work.

A few of the songs the Andrews Sisters sing on this album are Christmas standards, namely "Winter Wonderland," "Sleigh Ride," and "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow." However, half the album consists of songs I have never heard before, with "Christmas Candles," "Merry Christmas Polka," "Jung-A-Ling Jing-A-Ling," "Christmas Tree Angel," and "Christmas Island." But surprisingly those "new" songs are the more interesting ones, mainly because beyond the title track the singing style of the Andrews Sisters does not suit the standards as well as it does these songs, many of which I suspect were written for their distinctive vocal approach.

This album also features a half-dozen songs with the girls singing with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. The Andrews Sisters had reached the Top 10 with both singers, having recorded "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "Along the Navajo Trail," and "South America, Take It Alway," all with Crosby, "Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)" with Kaye. Der Bingle is featured on "Jingle Bells," "Twelve Days of Christmas," "Here Comes Santa Claus," "The Toys Gave A Party For) Poppa Santa," and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town. There is something compelling about the top female and male vocalists singing so many songs together. There are more such treats out there and you can find them on several of Crosby's Christmas collections. Kaye shows up for "Merry Christmas at Grandmother's," which is not bad, it just suffers from the comparison. Granted, this is an acquired taste in terms of holiday music, but for those raised on such songs there is more at work here than nostalgia.

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Catholic Classics: Songs in Spanish
Donna Pena
Manufacturer: Gia Publications
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Songs for Christmas
Nat King Cole
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ASIN: B00065VSKK
Release Date: 2004-10-04

Tracks:

All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
Frosty The Snowman The Little Christmas Tree
The Little Christmas
The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
Mrs. Santa Claus
Deck The Halls
O Tannenbaum
Santa Claus Is Coming Tot Town
A House With Love In It
Jingle Bells
The Christmas Song
Silent Night (Instr.)

Album Description

Import exclusive 12-track compilation featuring 'All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)', 'Frosty The Snowman', & 'The Little Christmas Tree'. Christmas Legends. 2004.

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beautiful vintage recordings
this guy is amazing

Encores

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Customer Reviews:

beautiful vintage recordings.......2007-01-06

These recordings were made between 1915-1954; as the other reviewer said, sound is vintage (about half of the tracks are from 1915) but not bad at all, with nice atmosphere, good acoustics and rich sound of the instruments; the "El Cant dels Ocells" from 1950 is particularly beautiful (I wasn't familiar with it until today) but all tracks are well worth listening. Great CD.

this guy is amazing.......2003-03-22

This recording is great. The sound is vintage but clear and perfectly executed. The guy appears with a pipe like playing so easy,and surely it is.