Tis the Season

Track Listings

1. First Noel - Howard Hewett

2. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

3. Away in a Manger

4. This Christmas - Patti Austin

5. Silver Bells - Candy Dulfer

6. Christmas Song - Jonathan Butler

7. O Holy Night - Deniece Williams

8. Open Your Heart to Love - Maurice White

9. Merry Christmas Darling - The Whispers

10. I'll Be Home for Christmas - Carl Anderson

11. White Christmas - Jon Lucien

12. Have Your Self a Merry Little Christmas w/Rap [With Rap][*] - Keith Cross,

Tis the Season,Various Artists,Encoded Music,Christmas,Christmas / Chanukkah,Christmas Music,Contemporary Jazz,Crossover Jazz,Funk,Instrumental Pop,Jazz-Pop,Pop,Smooth Jazz,Soul,Urban

Tis the Season

Tracks:

Here Comes Santa Claus
A Marshmallow World
Feliz Navidad
Jingle Bell Rock
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Frosty The Snowman
Christmas In Las Vegas
Let It Snow
Sleigh Ride
Christmas Weekend
Little Drummer Boy
The Christmas Song

Amazon.com

The world would be a far colder place at Christmas without the electric guitar and Los Straitjackets' Tis the Season for is all the proof you need. Packed with 11 guitar-driven traditional songs and two originals, this memorable disc is a must-have for anyone who loves the sound of unaffected, basic guitar rock reminiscent of the Ventures and your favorite garage rock band. Adventurous, ambitious, and totally satisfying, the band takes on "Jingle Bell Rock" (making its guitars ring like a Byrds-fest) and a host of other chestnuts from "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" to the "La Bamba"-framed workout of "Feliz Navidad." Even the band's own "Christmas in Las Vegas" has those classic jingle-jangle guitar hooks that make this record a perennial holiday hit. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews:

Perfect Antidote..........2005-12-16

...for the holiday blahs...X-mas classics have never rocked liked this. Of particular delight is the seldom heard Christmas classic, "Marshmallow World"...Easily my favorite Holiday collection.

If this album doesn't get you rockin' ...........2004-12-27

If this album doesn't get you rockin', you're already dead. From the opening bars, you can't help but dance (or at least tap your toe.) Nothing preps me for the Christmas season like this album. The day after Thanksgiving, this is the first CD in the stereo: it's a family tradition.

Solid Christmas Surf!.......2004-12-08

I don't know if it's my Southern California upbringing, but I find surf instrumentals to be some of the most spiritual music known to mankind. Add Christmas tunes to the mix, and you have a Holiday treat almost as sweet as Eartha Kitt singing Santa Baby!

What works about Los Straitjackets' Christmas CD is the way they play their vintage surf guitars in a way that keeps the true essence of the Christmas songs we love. They are playful and creative, but never go overboard with trying to totally overhaul the tunes.

The finest creative touch shines on track #6. The beginnings of the surf classic "Pipeline" start the song, then Los Straitjackets go full throttle into a beautiful rendition of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," then briefly blend the instrumental portion of Del Shannon's "Runaway" midway into the tune.

Track #6 is worth the investment alone, but this entire CD is excellent modernized Holiday music. Take a chance on this one!

BORING! This is the WORST LS record........2003-12-25

I have to say as a LS fan that I was hugely disappointed with this record. Pete Curry is a great bass player, song writer, guitarist, etc. and he is fantastic when he's producing/engineering another band (Torquays "Somewhere in California" - true 5 star surf/rock instrumental record) but this is a terribly boring record. It sounds like "Ka-Ching" to me - let's see if we can make the cash registers ring with very little effort. This is especially the case when you listen to the fantastic new release produced by the great Mark Neill - "Supersonic Guitars in 3-D" rocks! Tis the season to give this one a pass and buy the Ventures Christmas record instead.

God Rest Ye Los Straitjackets.......2003-12-21

This is a fine seasonal effort from America's rockin' instrumental combo. A natural comparison would be to the Venture's Christmas Album. In fact, the version of "Sleigh Ride" here is almost a note for note copy of the Ventures version. But while the Ventures album grafted intros from then recent hits onto most of their Christmas songs, Los Straitjackets only do that on a few of the songs here. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", for example, uses the intro to the surf classic "Pipeline" and later uses it's organ solo. Anyway, this is a really fun Christmas album. If you are familiar with Los Straitjackets and enjoy them, I think you will dig this.

Latino Christmas (Feliz Navidad, Tis The Season, Jingle Bells, Frosty The Snowman, Let It Snow, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, The First Noel, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, White Christmas, Little Drummer Boy)

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Latino Christmas (Feliz Navidad, Tis The Season, Jingle Bells, Frosty The Snowman, Let It Snow, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, The First Noel, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, White Christmas, Little Drummer Boy)

Manufacturer: Michele Audio Corporation
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000BZ1JL8

Product Description

1. Feliz Navidad -- 2. Tis The Season -- 3. Jingle Bells -- 4.Frosty The Snowman -- 5. Let It Snow -- 6. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer -- 7. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town -- 8. The First Noel -- 9. O Come All ye Faithful -- 10. We Wish You A Merry Christmas -- 11. Hark The Herald Angels Sing -- 12. I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas -- 13. Little Drummer Boy -- 14. Latino Christmas Medley (Instrumental)

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Troubled show, but good sound
Footnote to the Dublin review
mixed bag

Tis the Season to Be Jelly
Frank Zappa
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

Troubled show, but good sound.......2003-12-23

This is the first disc in the first volume of the BEAT THE BOOTS series (in which Zappa collected some his more notorious bootlegs and released them himself, packaging, errors, and all). Its actually one of the more worthwhile ones that I've heard. The packaging is amusing -- handled with some care, with a rather grotesque but well-drawn cover, and a painstakingly detailed Zappaesque story on the back.

It documents the Scandanavian branch of the 1967 Mothers tour. This ill-fated leg off the tour is famous because Zappa, taking a detour in Italy and drinking some tap water, had horrible gastro-intestinal problems. This was in addition to the already awful conditions the band was performing under (see the amusing "Where's Our Equipment?" on YCDToSA vol.5). Considering the date, the sound quality is excellent. It runs at a disappointing 37 minutes.

While, as another reviewer has noted, Zappa seems decidedly uninvolved in this particular performance, its still quite interesting. The Mothers run through a song suite which contains both a snippet of Stravinsky's PETROUSHKA and the Supreme's BABY LOVE. The recording seems to cut here. NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO has a few bars of Tchaikovsky's 6th during a monologue, which leads into a few unnotable covers like HOUND DOG and BLUE SUEDE SHOES. The highlight of the disc is a pretty inspired performance of KING KONG. Bunk Gardner and Ian Underwood are in top form. IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE is the closer -- just as bizarre as usual.

Not a bad disc at all. Fans of the early Mothers lineup should definitely consider this one.

Footnote to the Dublin review.......2003-07-03

No, the sound quality isn't top-notch, and there's another reason why this album isn't highly-rated. Zappa was unwell on this particular night (he had gastro-enteritis, I think) and spent much of the concert offstage. (It's been speculated that Ian Underwood played some of the guitar parts). So those looking for Zappa solos will be disappointed. The slightly flat vocals during `You Didn't Try To Call Me' will also disappoint (I know it's not supposed to matter in the case of a semi-humorous song, but still...) even if they fit the ensuing medley of song-parodies - which includes an obscurity, `No Matter What You Do' (with an amusing talkover section), and a snippet from Stravinsky's `Petrouchka' which had to be deleted from some issues of the CD (copyright etc).
`King Kong' is what you buy the CD for. And it's an unusual arrangement, closer to the studio version than the standard live one as it's in 3-4 time (rather than 12-8) and doesn't have the composed middle-section familiar from albums like `The Ark'. The theme is stated by Bunk Gardner on clarinet, who leads off the solos with an exquisite two-part affair. Underwood follows, on alto sax - desperate and distraught-sounding, and beautifully so - then some spare and thoughtful keyboard work from Preston. Zappa stays out of the action, apart from conducting, and a few guitar licks during Bunk's solo. Which is just as well, anything he came up with would seem like an anticlimax in comparison to the other three soloists...But after Don's solo, Zappa and his baton take control, and the madness begins. Deafening synthesizer shrieks, voice samples, radio scanning, much indecipherable babble in foreign languages, a quick chorus of `It Can't Happen Here' and a gargantuan synth solo from Preston take us through to the end of the show, and album.

mixed bag.......2001-04-19

High point of the disc is a rousing King Kong, which has zappa's amusing introduction. Some real fine blowing by the horn section. Then a bonkers it can't happen here, loads of 'noise' including radio transmission, very out there. These two take up most of the 40 or so minutes. Also there is a 'waltz' version of you didn't try to call me, it's good. Big leg emma is ok, then you have various covers of different tunes like baby love, hound dog, bristol stomp. Moderately enjoyable tunes. Sound quality is reasonable for a bootleg...it has better sound than freaks and motherf***ers for instance. If you've never heard Frank Zappa's music, this is not a good place to start, get an official release. But king kong and it can't happen here are treasures, making this cd worthwhile for zappa fans.

'Tis the Season-The First Noel: 2 Cds of Holiday Celtic Favorites

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'Tis the Season-The First Noel: 2 Cds of Holiday Celtic Favorites
Various
Manufacturer: Compass
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000MGI6BM

Product Description

24 track collection with 12 songs apiece on two cds. The first CD is called "Christmas Celebration: The Joyful sounds of the fiddle, flute, mandolin, and guitar join together in this collection of Christmas classics." Songs are: 1)I Saw Three Ships, 2)Deck the Halls/New Christmas/Good King Wenceslas/Merriment of Christmas, 3)Angels We Have Heard on High, 4)Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, 5)We Three Kings/The Rocky Road, 6)God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/The Three Little Drummers, 7)The Holly and The Ivy, 8)Good Christian Men Rejoice/Red Stockings/The Hills of Ireland, 9)Jingle Bells/Shandon Bells, 10)O Come All Ye Faithful, 11)Here We Come A'Wassailing/The Ale Is Dear, 12)Joy to the World. The second CD is described as "Relaxing Celtic Christmas: Celtic wooden flutes, guitar, piano, and bagpipes flow gently through this beautiful set of holiday favorites." Songs are: 1)The First Noel, 2)It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, 3)What Child Is This?, 4)O Come, O Come Immanuel/The Night in Bethlehem, 5)Coventry Carol,6)In the Bleak Midwinter, 7)Away in a Manger, 8)Angels We Have Heard on High/O'Carolan's, 9)I Saw Three Ships, 10)The Sussex Carol/Christmas Day in the Morning/Baloo Lammy, 11)Silent Night, 12)All Through the Night.

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Beethoven: Songs from the British Isles

Beethoven: Songs from the British Isles

Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

Beethoven: Songs from the British Isles.......2007-04-10

Beethoven was commissioned to compose music for British songs, but he was given free rein as to the music, not being constrained by the words. What he composed is marvelous, melodic, memorable, captivating, and haunting, to use just a few adjectives to describe this music. I have a 33-1/3 record (yes-vinyl) of other songs that he wrote for the Brits, and this CD is complementary to that - equally well performed. A person that likes OLD folksongs will be humming the tunes forthwith.

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Go Northwest Choirs

'Tis the Season

Manufacturer: NWC
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00003GPLT
Release Date: 1998-12-01

Tracks:

Caroling, Caroling
Come Leave Your Sheep
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Deck The Halls
Personent Hodie
How Far Is It To Bethlehem
When Christ Was Born
Jingle Bell Rock
Winter Wonderland
The Christmas Song
Sleigh Ride
Christmas Time Is Here
Let It Snow
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Jingle Bells

Product Description

Released in November 1999, Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle's fourth Christmas album: 'Tis the Season! The repertoire for this album includes a mix of traditional sacred music and favorite popular tunes. The traditional, sacred pieces were recorded at Bastyr University's chapel (formerly St. Thomas Center) with musicians from Seattle's professional orchestra and chamber groups. The popular pieces were recorded at Triad Studios in Redmond.

Customer Reviews:

Go Northwest Choirs.......2000-01-11

As a huge choral music fan, I tell you these guys are great. I have been to many of their concerts and always enjoy them immensely. To all you performing guys, Joe, Jenny, and Vocalpoint! great job. This is a wonderful CD and is a nice mix of rare classical and pop stuff. I'm not sure if Amazon has it, but also look for Our Finest Gifts, released 1994, for great traditional numbers. If you haven't heard this group, you don't know what you are missing.

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Vol. 3: 'Tis the Season
Jamie deRoy & Friends
Manufacturer: Harbinger
ProductGroup: Music
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'tis the season - celtic christmas

Manufacturer: compass productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0009E7JHY

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a collection of tranditional holiday classics

Karaoke Music CDG: Sound Choice Star CDG SC2513 - 'Tis The Season - Vol. 15

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ASIN: B000PIMP28

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