Best Christmas Album..

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Blue Monday" has been shortened slightly from its original 12" version, while the following track "How Soon is Now? Bought this CD as we have listened to this many times at my parents house and I'm pleased to have my own copy for the car during the Christmas season! Ella Fitzgerald's classic holiday album includes a number of high-energy, spirited takes on the Christmas songs that most of us love and know well, including "Jingle Bells" and "Let It Snow!

a too-cute 1970 Michael Jackson tells his doubting brothers in what might be Xmas-pop's most adorable moment. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. When Rivers Cuomo sings "Oh, come let us adore him" on "O Come All Ye Faithful," his creepily deadpan vocals sound like he's stalking the Baby Jesus, not celebrating him, and on the pooch-metal rendition of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," he's like a Dickensian droogy ready to burn his crummy Victorian orphanage if he doesn't get some figgy pudding, stat! This was the fourth album Sinatra recorded in a very good year, and he sings like he has the universe effortlessly balanced on the brim of his hat. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term.

Dynamite has something in his bottomless gift bag for every girl and boy the world over: On the blazing title track from 1970's Hey America It's Christmas, he implores, "White or black, blue or green/ Even a man I've never seen/Let's get together! Bublé also tries his hand at Mariah Carey's Christmas behemoth "All I Want for Christmas Is You," a bold attempt at taking an uplifting power ballad and turning it into something a little more broody, and we won't hold against him. Otis Redding does a slow, heart-weary "White Christmas" and a satisfied, Southern-fried "Merry Christmas Baby," while Carla Thomas spins her signature hit "Gee Whiz" into the fireplace-stoking forget-me-not "Gee Whiz, It's Christmas. With that in mind, listening to Christmas Portrait is an exercise in loving one another and not taking the season or its meaning for granted. The concept of the album is similar to the Harmless collections and to BMG Global TV's Blaxplotation album series.The Jackson 5’s Santa Claus Is Coming to Town is exuberance bottled; Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen intriguingly jazzy. Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas is a triumph from start to finish – no schmaltz, no excess, just one beautiful arrangement and incredible, seemingly effortless vocal after another. His takes on the classics are pretty and lovably dog-eared (see his banjo-fied "Amazing Grace") and his originals add wrinkles to the canon.

And if you think Christmas music has lost its sense of religious meaning, "The Word Was Made Flesh" is all you'll need to reset your spiritual clock. Christina Aguilera swings by for a jazzy "Baby, It's Cold Outside," where Cee Lo injects the line "Baby, it's bad out there/ No cab's to be had out there" with a sly tinge of urban realism; "All I Need Is Love," with the Muppets, interpolates the Sesame Street classic "Manamana" into a hip-hop-soul jam; and Cee Lo locks in with Rod Stewart and New Orleans hornman Trombone Shorty for a super smooth "Merry, Christmas Baby.K. hit "One Christmas Catalogue," a sublime synth-rock evocation of all the ways we use the holiday to mark time – for better or worse. The fuzzed-out Little Drummer Boy is magical, but the killer is Just Like Christmas, a lo-fi version of the Phil Spector sound, utterly joyous despite its depiction of tour-related misery: “The snow was gone, we got lost … it was just like Christmas. It's composed of five EPs Stevens made for loved ones through the years, many of whom helped complete the set, giving the Christmas album's aura an extra personable touch.