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Review Bing Crosby / Merry Christmas With Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
Tracks Merry Christmas With Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
  • Merry Christmas Polka
  • Christmas Candles
  • Here Comes Santa Claus
  • Christmas In Killarney
  • Winter Wonderland
  • Is Christmas Only A Tree
  • Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
  • O Fir Tree Dark
  • Happy Holiday
  • Christmas Tree Angel
  • First Snowfall
  • Jing A Ling Jing A Ling
  • Jingle Bells
  • Mele Kalikimaka
  • You're All I Want For Christmas
  • Poppa Santa Claus
  • Twelve Days Of Christmas
  • I'd Like To Hitch A Ride With Santa Claus
  • Looks Like A Cold Winter
Publisher: Mca
Release date: 2000-10-23
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.26

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Review Laura Nyro / Christmas and the Beads of Sweat
Tracks Christmas and the Beads of Sweat
  • Christmas in My Soul
  • Blackpatch
  • Beads of Sweat
  • Been on a Train
  • Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp
  • Map to the Treasure
  • When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag
  • Brown Earth
  • Up on the Roof
Publisher: Sbme Special MKTS.
Release date: 2008-03-01
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.47

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Review Rick Wakeman / Christmas Variations
Tracks Christmas Variations
  • Once In Royal David's City
  • O Little Town Of Bethlehem
  • Silent Night
  • Hark The Herald Angels Sing
  • Christians Awake Salute The Happy Morn
  • O Come All Ye Faithful
  • Angels From The Realms Of Glory
  • Away In A Manger
  • It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
  • While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks By Night
Publisher: Music Fusion
Release date: 2008-11-10
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.99

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Review Various Artists / 25 Favourite Christmas Songs
Tracks 25 Favourite Christmas Songs
  • Good Christian Men Rejoice
  • We Three Kings
  • Winter Wonderland
  • Jingle Bells
  • What Child Is This
  • Hark The Herald Angels Sing
  • White Christmas
  • O Holy Night
  • O Christmas Tree
  • We Wish You A Merry Christmas
  • Angels We Have Heard On High
  • First Noel
  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
  • Joy To The World
  • Deck The Halls
  • Go Tell It On The Mountain
  • It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
  • Silent Night
  • Silver Bells
  • O Little Town Of Bethlehem
  • I'll Be Home For Christmas
  • Away In A Manger
  • O Come All Ye Faithful
  • Little Drummer Boy
  • Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow
Publisher: Camden
Release date: 2008-10-13
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.99

Review 25 Favourite Christmas Songs / Various Artists:


Review Various / A Very Special Christmas, Vol. 4: Live
Tracks A Very Special Christmas, Vol. 4: Live
  • Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow
  • Merry Christmas, Baby - Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow
  • Christmas in Hollis - Run-D.M.C.
  • What Child Is This? - Vanessa Williams
  • O Holy Night - Tracy Chapman
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Mary J. Blige, Jon Bon Jovi, Tracy Chapman, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, John Popper, Run-D.M.C., Vanessa Williams
  • Please Come Home for Christmas - Jon Bon Jovi
  • Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Jon Bon Jovi
  • Christmas Blues - Eric Clapton, John Popper
  • Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman, Eric Clapton
  • Christmas Tears - Eric Clapton
Publisher: A&M
Release date: 1999-10-19
RRP: £20.99
Price: £5.47

Review A Very Special Christmas, Vol. 4: Live / Various:

The Very Special Christmas series has become almost as much of a Christmas tradition as decking the halls and trimming the tree. Although lacking the charm and breadth of previous in-studio discs, Special Christmas Live partially makes up the deficit with interesting pairings. There's Mary J Blige and Sheryl Crow "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," Eric Clapton and Crow doing "Merry Christmas Baby," Clapton and John Popper trading licks in "Christmas Blues," and old Slowhand and Tracy Chapman reprising Chapman's delicious "Give Me One Reason," a tune that has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas. Obviously Clapton-heavy (there's even a solo slot with the blues ballad "Christmas Tears"), the set also includes Jon Bon Jovi getting on his knees to plead "Please Come Home for Christmas" and "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home"), Vanessa Williams singing "What Child Is This," and Chapman doing a soulful acoustic take of "O Holy Night. " The all-star line-up closes en masse with "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town. " -Martin Keller.

Review Various Artists / Disney's Sing-Along Christmas Favourites
Tracks Disney's Sing-Along Christmas Favourites
  • From All Of Us To All Of You
  • Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
  • Deck The Halls
  • We Wish You Merry Christmas
  • Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer
  • Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
  • From All Of Us To All Of You
  • O Christmas Tree
  • Twelve Days Of Christmas
  • Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
  • Twelve Days Of Christmas
  • Jingle Bells
  • Deck The Halls
  • O Christmas Tree
  • We Wish You A Merry Christmas
  • Jingle Bells
Publisher: Walt Disney
Release date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.42

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Review Various Artists / Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics [EXPLICIT LYRICS]
Tracks Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics [EXPLICIT LYRICS]
  • What The Hell Child Is This? - Chef
  • Dead, Dead, Dead - Juan Schwartz And The South Park Children'S Choir
  • It Happened In Sun Valley - Stan Marsh And Wendy Testaburger
  • O Tannenbaum - Adolf Hitler
  • Christmas Time In Hell - Satan, The Dark Prince
  • Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo (Early '50s Recording) - Cowboy Timmy
  • O Holy Night - Eric Cartman
  • Swiss Colony Beef Log - Eric Cartman
  • Santa Claus Is On His Way - Mr. Hankey
  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Mr. Hankey With Stan, Kyle And Cartman
  • Merry F**king Christmas - Mr. Garrison, The 3rd Grade Teacher
  • The Most Offensive Song Ever - Kenny Mccormick & Mr. Hankey
  • Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel - The Broflofskis, With Eric Cartman And Stan Marsh
  • Carol Of The Bells - Mr. Mackey, The School Counselor
  • Hark The Herald Angels Sing - South Park Children'S Choir
  • The Lonely Jew On Christmas - Kyle Broflofski With Special Celebrity Guest
  • We Three Kings - Mr. Ose
  • I Saw Three Ships - Shelley Marsh, Stan'S Sister
Publisher: Sony Budget
Release date: 2008-10-13
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.37

Review Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics [EXPLICIT LYRICS] / Various Artists:

Third time's the charm! Chef Aid was padded with "inspired by" songs, and the Bigger, Longer, & Uncut soundtrack by gratuitous remixes. Here at last is an album containing nothing but the series characters warbling away. From the show itself is "Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo" (embellished with some randomly inserted lyrics), "The Lonely Jew On Christmas" (with a special guest impersonation), and "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel" (with the whole Broflofski family suffering Cartman' s anti-semitism). Guaranteed instant new favourites are "Merry F***ing Christmas" (from Mr. Garrison in fine voice), "I Saw Three Ships" (Shelley Marsh getting ribbed for her teeth braces), and "The Most Offensive Song Ever" (Kenny and Mr. Hankey thinking the virgin birth through). In addition there' s contributions from Satan, Hitler, Chef, and Mr. Mackey-all made that bit more special by Marc Shaiman' s arrangements. The real success of this disc (as always) are the songs from Cartman. [+]
"O Holy Night" reaffirms what makes the holiday for kids-presents! And "Swiss Colony Beef Log" is possibly the best song the show has ever produced. It' s a mod-rock parody with the "big-boned" boy bewailing the absence of his favourite Xmas snack. In a word: sweeeeeeet. -Paul Tonks.

Review Arthaus Musik / A Christmas Carol - The Northern Ballet Theatre [1992]
Tracks A Christmas Carol - The Northern Ballet Theatre [1992]
  • Jeremy Kerridge
  • William Walker
  • Royce Neagle
  • The Northern Ballet Theatre
  • Lorena Vidal
Publisher: Arthaus Musik
Release date: 2005-10-31
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £15.94

Review A Christmas Carol - The Northern Ballet Theatre [1992] / Arthaus Musik:


Review Bob Rivers Comedy Corp / Twisted Christmas
Tracks Twisted Christmas
  • Twelve Pains of Christmas
  • Joy to the World
  • Foreigners
  • Wreck the Malls
  • Visit from St. Nicholson
  • Restroom Door Said, "Gentlemen"
  • O Come All Ye Grateful Dead Heads
  • We Wish You Weren't Living with Us
  • I'm Dressin' Up Like Santa (When I Get out on Parole)
  • Chimney Song
  • Message from the King
Publisher: Critique
Release date: 1990-10-25
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.74

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Review New York Pro Musica Antiqua / English Medieval Christmas Carols
Tracks English Medieval Christmas Carols
  • Gloria/Alleluia
  • Beata Progenies
  • Sancta Maria
  • Tibi Laus Tibi Gloria
  • Nova Nova
  • Ave Rex Angelorum
  • Make We Joy Now In This Fest
  • Alma Redemptoris Mater
  • Ave Maria
  • Marvel Not Joseph
  • Nowell Nowell: Tidings True
  • What Tidings Bringest Thou
  • Hail Mary Full Of Grace
  • Nowell Sing We
  • Lullay Lullow
Publisher: Tradition
Release date: 2002-04-01
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.49

Review English Medieval Christmas Carols / New York Pro Musica Antiqua:


Review Erato / Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Tracks Bach: Christmas Oratorio
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Recitativo: Wass will der Holle Schrecken nun
  • I - Erste Kantate - For The First Day Of The Nativity: 'Ach, mein herzliebes Jesulein!'
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Herrr, dein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Aria: Erleucht auch meine finstre Sinnen
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Recitativo: Da berief Herodes die Weisen heimlich
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: IV - Vierte Kantate - For The Feast Of The Circumcision Of Christ: Aria: Flosst, mein Heiland, flosst dein Namen
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: Sinfonia
  • I - Erste Kantate - For The First Day Of The Nativity: 'Grosser Herr, o starker Koening'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Recitativo: Da Jesus geboren war zu Bethlehem
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Recitativo: So geht! Genug, mein Schatz
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Herrscher des Himmels, erhoere das Lallen'
  • I - Erste Kantate - For The First Day Of The Nativity: 'Wie soll ich dich empfangen'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: IV - Vierte Kantate - For The Feast Of The Circumcision Of Christ: Recitativo: Wohlan, dein Name soll allein
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Ich will dich mit Fleiss bewahren'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Frohe Hirten, eilt, ach eilet'
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Und da die Engel von ihnen gen Himmel Fuhren'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: IV - Vierte Kantate - For The Feast Of The Circumcision Of Christ: Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Aria: Nun mogt ihr stolzen Feinde schrecken
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Herrscher des Himmels, erhoere das Lallen'
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Und die Hirten kehrten wieder um'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'So geht denn hin'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Und asbald war da bei dem Engel'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Lasset uns nun gehen gen Bethlehem'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Recitativo accompagnato: Warum wollt ihr erschrekken?
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Schliesse, mein Herze'
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Dies hat er alles uns getan'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Was Gott dem Abraham verheissen'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: IV - Vierte Kantate - For The Feast Of The Circumcision Of Christ: Aria: Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben
  • I - Erste Kantate - For The First Day Of The Nativity: 'Und sie gebahr ihren ersten Sohn'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen
  • I - Erste Kantate - For The First Day Of The Nativity: 'Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Brich an, o schoenes Morgenlicht'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'So recht, ihr Engel, jauchzt und singet'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Wir singen dir in deinem Heer'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Ehre sei Gott in der Hoehe'
  • I - Erste Kantate - For The First Day Of The Nativity: 'Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: IV - Vierte Kantate - For The Feast Of The Circumcision Of Christ: Jesus richte mein Beginnen
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Zwar ist solche Herzensstube
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Aria Terzetto: Ach, wann wird die Zeit erscheinen
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Schaut hin, dort liegt im finstern Stall'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Recitativo: Als sie nun den Konig gehoret hatten
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Recitativo: Du Falscher, suche nur den Herrn zu fallen
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Dein Glanz all' Finsternis verzehrt
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Seid froh, dieweil'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: IV - Vierte Kantate - For The Feast Of The Circumcision Of Christ: Recitativo: Und da acht Tage um waren
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Und sie kamen eilend'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Schlafe, mein Liebster'
  • I - Erste Kantate - For The First Day Of The Nativity: 'Er ist auf Erden kommen arm'
  • VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Aria: Nur ein Wink von seinen Handen
  • I - Erste Kantate - For The First Day Of The Nativity: 'Nun wird mein liebster Brautigam'
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Und der Engel sprach zu ihnen'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Recitativo: Und Gott befahl ihnen im Traum
  • II - Zweite Kantate - For The Second Day Of The Nativity: 'Und das habt zum Zeichen'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Recitativo: Wo ist der neugeborne Koenig der Juden?
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: IV - Vierte Kantate - For The Feast Of The Circumcision Of Christ: Recitativo: Immanuel, o suesses Wort!
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: VI - Sechste Kantate - For Epiphany: Ich steh' an deiner Krippen hier
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Recitativo: Da das der Konig Herodes horte
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Ja, ja, mein Herz'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Recitativo: Mein Liebster herrschet schon
  • I - Erste Kantate - For The First Day Of The Nativity: 'Bereite dich, Zion, mit zartlichen Trieben'
  • III - Dritte Kantate - For The Third Day Of The Nativity: 'Er hat sein Volk getroest't'
  • Weihnacts-Oratorium: V - Funfte Kantate - For The Sunday After The Circumcision: Recitativo: Und liess versammeln alle Hohenpriester
Publisher: Erato
Release date: 1999-10-01
Creator: Klaus Mertens
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.98

Review Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Erato:

Like that of the Easter and Ascension oratorios, the music of the Christmas Oratorio was compiled mainly from Bach's secular cantatas. That said, individual texts and scores were also considerably reworked for the composer to come up with a densely argued and pristinely shaped structure which assumes the form of a six-part arch, taking the Nativity story from Birth, via Annunciation, Adoration, Circumcision and Naming to the Coming of the Magi and their eventual climactic Adoration. Reciprocally well argued and formed is Tom Koopman's fastidious reading with his own well-drilled Baroque Orchestra and Choir. From a festive and rustic opening onwards-trumpets and timpani bristling with energy and attack-Koopman rightly treats the oratorio as a journey of discovery. And what lavish treats lie in store along the way, not in the least the immaculate contributions of all four vocal soloists, especially the velvety alto of Elisabeth von Magnus and the rich bass of Klaus Mertens. Propulsive tempi assist in keeping both the drama and the momentum going, and there's some sharp split-second editing to ensure that recitatives, arias and choruses really flow. Add the pristine playing of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, plus fine recording balance between them, soloists and choir for a thrilling and first-rate rendition. -Duncan Hadfield.

Review Martina Mcbride / White Christmas [Us Import]
Tracks White Christmas [Us Import]
  • Jingle Bells [#]
  • Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
  • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing [#]
  • Winter Wonderland [#]
  • Silent Night
  • What Child Is This
  • I'll Be Home for Christmas
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
  • White Christmas
  • Do You Hear What I Hear
  • O Holy Night
  • Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
  • Away in a Manger
  • O Come All Ye Faithful
  • Baby, It's Cold Outside - Dean Martin, Martina McBride
  • Silver Bells
Publisher: RCA
Release date: 2007-10-02
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.30

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Review Huddersfield Choral Society / A Christmas Fantasy
Tracks A Christmas Fantasy
  • O Come All Ye Faithful
  • Ring Out, Wild Bells
  • Twelve Days of Christmas
  • For Unto Us a Child Is Born
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas
  • Farandole (Suite l'Arlésienne)
  • Shepherd's Hey
  • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
  • Christmas Festival Overture: Joy to the World/Deck the Hall/God ...
  • Sussex Carol
  • Nativity Carol
  • Shepherd's Farewell (L'Enfance du Christ)
  • Christmas Fantasy: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear/In Dulci Jubilo
Publisher: Chandos Brass
Release date: 2000-01-01
Run time: 49 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £4.89

Review A Christmas Fantasy / Huddersfield Choral Society:


Review Various Artists / Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Tracks Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas
  • The Old Man / Gee, I Wish I Was Back In The Army - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Joseph J. Lilley & His Orchestra
  • Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep - Bing Crosby, Joseph J. Lilley & His Orchestra
  • Choreography - Danny Kaye, Joseph J. Lilley & His Orchestra
  • Blue Skies/Mandy - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye
  • Sisters - Peggy Lee, Joseph J. Lilley & His Orchestra
  • What Can You Do With A General? - Bing Crosby, Joseph J. Lilley & His Orchestra
  • Snow - Bing Crosby, Trudy Stevens, Peggy Lee, Danny Kaye, Joseph J. Lilley & His Orchestra
  • Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me - Peggy Lee, Joseph J. Lilley & His Orchestra
  • The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing - Danny Kaye, Joseph J. Lilley & His Orchestra
  • White Christmas - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, Trudy Stevens, Joseph J. Lilley & His Orchestra
Publisher: Commercial Marketing
Release date: 2002-10-31
Run time: 30 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01

Review Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas / Various Artists:


Review Various Artists / I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus: Another Sackful of USA Yuletide Tunes from the 1920s - 1950s
Tracks I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus: Another Sackful of USA Yuletide Tunes from the 1920s - 1950s
  • Christmas Is A Joyful Day - Lord Executor
  • Happy New Year - Hopkins, Lightnin'
  • Trim Your Tree - Butler, Jimmy
  • White Christmas - Ravens
  • Jingle Bells - Paul, Les
  • Get Off The Stool - Rainwater, Marvin
  • Rockin' 'N' Rollin' With Santa Claus - Hepsters
  • I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus - Lee, Brenda
  • Jingle Bells - Watson, Leo
  • At The Christmas Ball - Smith, Bessie
  • Jingle Bells - Maddox Brothers & Rose
  • Christmas Morning Blues - Spivey, Victoria
  • Christ Was Born On Christmas Morn - Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers
  • We Wanna See Santa Do The Mambo - Greer, 'Big' John
  • What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everyone Swingin') - Prima, Louis
  • When Was Jesus Born - Sons Of Heaven
  • Be-Bop Santa Claus - Gonzales, Babs
  • Christmas Carols By The Old Corral - Ritter, Tex
  • Christmas Island - Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher
  • Wrong Way To Celebrate Christmas - Clayborn, Rev. Edward W.
Publisher: Viper
Release date: 2007-12-03
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.79

Review I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus: Another Sackful of USA Yuletide Tunes from the 1920s - 1950s / Various Artists:


Review various / christmas songs for children
Tracks christmas songs for children
  • This must be Christmas day
  • The happiest time of year
  • Tree of Light
  • Christmas lullaby
  • The Himalayan abominable snowman blues
  • The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to you)
  • I'm a little Christmas cracker
  • Winter sport
  • Troika
  • Jingle-bell rock
  • The song of the winter wind
  • A New Year's resolution
  • Sing a song of Christmas cheer
  • Good time Christmas
  • Christmas chopsticks
  • Christmas calypso
  • The Silver sleighride
  • Christmas on the beach at Waikiki
  • Have your-self a merry little Christmas
  • Something told the wild geese
Publisher: the gift of music
Release date: 2006-09-01
RRP: £6.99
Price: £8.98

Review christmas songs for children / various:


Review Ledisi / It's Christmas
Tracks It's Christmas
  • It's Christmas
  • Give Love on Christmas Day
  • Silent Night
  • Thank You
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
  • I'll Go - Ledisi, Richard Smallwood
  • What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
  • What a Wonderful World - Ledisi, , Christian Scott
  • Children Go Where I Send Thee
  • This Christmas (Could Be the One)
  • Be There for Christmas
  • Please Come Home for Christmas - Keb' Mo', Ledisi
Publisher: Verve Forecast
Release date: 2008-09-23
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.52

Review It's Christmas / Ledisi:


Review Various Artists / Now - the Christmas Album
Tracks Now - the Christmas Album
  • When A Child Is Born - Hannah Morris
  • The Power Of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
  • Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - Dean Martin
  • Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
  • Last Christmas - Billie Piper
  • I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake
  • Little Saint Nick - Beach Boys
  • I Wish It Could Be Christmas - Wizzard
  • Santa Baby - Kylie Minogue
  • Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John & Yoko
  • Lonely This Christmas - Mud
  • Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney
  • A Winter's Tale - Magnets
  • White Christmas - Bing Crosby
  • Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie
  • Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth - Bing Crosby/David Bowie
  • The Christmas Song - Nat 'King' Cole
  • It May Be Winter Outside - Love Unlimited Orchestra
  • The Millennium Prayer - Cliff Richard
  • Fairytale Of New York - Ronan Keating feat. Maire Brennan
  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Vanessa Williams
  • Frosty The Snowman - Jackson Five
  • Mistletoe And Wine - Cliff Richard
  • Perfect Christmas - S Club 7
  • Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade
  • Walk This Sleigh - Robbie Williams
  • Last Christmas - Billie Piper
  • Baby, It's Cold Ouside - Tom Jones with Cerys from Catatonia
  • Step Into Christmas - Elton John
  • The Perfect Year - Dina Carroll
  • Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
  • Please Come Home For Christmas - State Of The Heart
  • Walking In The Air - Aled Jones
  • Driving Home For Christmas - Michael Ball
  • Silent Night - Sinead O'Connor
  • Christmas Wrapping - Spice Girls
  • A Spaceman Came Travelling - Chris De Burgh
  • Angels - Robbie Williams
  • In Dulce Jubilo - Mike Oldfield
  • Sleigh Ride - Spice Girls
Publisher: Now Export
Release date: 2000-11-27
RRP: £17.99
Price: £16.64

Review Now - the Christmas Album / Various Artists:

Tis the season to be jolly, and what better to kick of the proceedings than Slade and Wizzard with those perennial seasonal favourites "Merry Xmas Everybody" and "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday". The Now Christmas collection stands head and shoulders above the field of festive compilations as it actually has a lot of unusual tracks-the titles may be familiar, but the artists doing them are all quite unexpected. Hence you get Kylie purring her way through "Santa Baby", the Spice Girls indulging in some "Christmas Wrapping" before taking you on a "Sleigh Ride", Samantha Mumba telling us "All I Want For Christmas", Billie Piper casting her eye back to "Last Christmas" and Ronan Keating teaming up with Maire Brennan for a "Fairytale Of New York". These tracks work to varying degrees, but there are plenty more traditional originals on offer to sate the most hearty of holiday appetites-from Bing Crosby crooning his way through "White Christmas" to Aled Jones taking his Snowman by the hand while they go "Walking In The Air". No Christmas compilation should be without Cliff Richard, and sure enough he puts in an appearance with "Mistletoe And Wine" and "The Millennium Prayer". A worthy addition to the Now stables, and a thoroughbred through and through. -Helen Marquis.

Review Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio / More Twisted Christmas
Tracks More Twisted Christmas
  • Parking Spaces
  • There's a Santa Who Looks a Lot Like Elvis
  • It's the Most Fattening Time of the Year
  • Sled Zeppelin
  • Buttcracker Suite
  • Jesus's Birthday
  • Holidaze (S'cuze Me, I've Got Gifts to Buy)
  • All You Need Is Elves
  • Toy Sack
  • Rummy Rocker Boy
  • Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow!
  • Police Stop My Car
  • Hey You! Get off My House - H.B. Radke, Bob Rivers
Publisher: Atlantic
Release date: 1997-10-07
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.70

Review More Twisted Christmas / Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio:

Rivers is in top form here plying his satire-ridden stocking-stuffer trade, serving up note-per-note knockoffs of everyone from Led Zeppelin and the B-52's to Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, and Tchaikovsky, among others. No lazy satirist, Rivers and company deliver not only grand musical copies, but clever and witty lyrics that slum on the guttural side only occasionally ("Buttcracker Suite" being the biggest offender). The rest of the time it's good-natured stuff even ol' Scrooge could like. "It's the Most Fattening Time of the Year" sings Rivers's Johnny Mathis, "Sled Zepplin" nails the Plant-Page matrix, and the Beatles are the aim on "Jesus' Birthday" and "All You Need Is Elves. " But the most inspired cuts go to a big-band swing version the Stones' "Get Off of My Cloud" (here retitled "Hey You! Get Off My House") and Hendrix's "Purple Haze," knowingly recast as "Holidaze (S'Cuze Me, I've Got Gifts to Buy). " -Martin Keller.

Review Archiv Produktion / Schütz: Christmas Vespers /Gabrieli Consort & Players · McCreesh
Tracks Schütz: Christmas Vespers /Gabrieli Consort & Players · McCreesh
  • Hymn: Christum wir sollen loben schon - Kristian Olesen, Congregational Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral
  • Hymn: Lobt Gott, Ihr Christen all zugleich - Kristian Olesen, Boy's Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral, Finn Evald
  • Beschluss: Dank sagen wir alle Gott... - Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Boy's Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral, Kristian Olesen, Finn Evald
  • Intermedium VI: Ziehet hin, und forschet fleißig... - Neal Davies, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, James Johnstone, Timothy Roberts
  • Rezitativ: Da berief Herodes die Weisen heimlich... - Charles Daniels, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Rezitativ: Als sie nun den König gehöret hatten... - Charles Daniels, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Intermedium V: Zu Bethlehem im jüdischen Lande... - Roderick Williams, Robert Rice, Simon Grant, Richard Savage, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Gloria Patri, et Filio - Sicut erat in principio - Robert Harre-Jones, Rodrigo Del Pozo, Charles Pott, Simon Grant, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort, Boy's Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral, Kristian Olesen, Finn Evald
  • O bone Jesu, fili Mariae (SWV 471) - Timothy Roberts, Susan Hemington Jones, Rodrigo Del Pozo, Charles Daniels, Simon Grant, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort
  • Deus in adjutorium - Domine ad adjuvandum - Charles Pott, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort
  • Psalm 2 "Warum toben die Heiden" SWV23 - Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort
  • Esurientes implevit bonis - Suscepit Israel - Sicut .. - Robert Harre-Jones, Rodrigo Del Pozo, Charles Pott, Simon Grant, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort, Boy's Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral, Kristian Olesen, Finn Evald
  • Hymn: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ - Kristian Olesen, Congregational Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral
  • Die Geburt unsres Herren Jesu Christi (Reconstructed by Timothy Roberts) - Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Boy's Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral, Kristian Olesen, Finn Evald
  • Prelude: La piva (Source: Vatican MS Q IV 28) - Kristian Olesen
  • Intermedium II: Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe... - Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, James Johnstone, Timothy Roberts
  • Collect And Benedicamus Domino Vobiscum - Charles Pott, Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh
  • Rezitativ: Und sie kamen eilend ... - Charles Daniels, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Intermedium VII: Stehe auf, Joseph... - Susan Hemington Jones, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, James Johnstone
  • Intermedium VIII: Stehe auf Joseph... - Susan Hemington Jones, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, James Johnstone
  • Intermedium I: Fürchtet euch nicht... - Susan Hemington Jones, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, James Johnstone
  • Rezitativ: Und alsbald war da bei dem Engel... EngeltIntermedium II: - Charles Daniels, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Rezitativ: Und er stund auf und nahm das Kindlein... - Charles Daniels, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Intermedium IV: Wo ist der neugeborne König... - Tom Phillips, Angus Smith, Charles Pott, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Rezitativ: Da das der König Herodes hörete... - Charles Daniels, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Postlude: Benedicamus Domino à 6 (modus pleno organo pedaliter) - Kristian Olesen
  • Quia fecit mihi magna-Et misericordia-Fecit potentiam - Robert Harre-Jones, Rodrigo Del Pozo, Charles Pott, Simon Grant, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort, Kristian Olesen, Finn Evald
  • Rezitativ: Und da die Engel ... - Charles Daniels, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Rezitativ: Es begab sich aber zu derselbigen Zeit... - Charles Daniels, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Intermedium III: Lasset uns nun gehen gen Bethlehem.. - Rodrigo Del Pozo, Robert "Bob The Builder" Horn, Andrew Carwood, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, James Johnstone
  • In dulci jubilo - arr. Paul McCreesh - Stefan Olesen, Kristian Olesen, Boy's Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral, Finn Evald
  • Hymn: Wir Christenleut haben itzund Freud - Kristian Olesen, Boy's Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral, Finn Evald
  • Rezitativ: Und er stund auf und nahm das Kindlein... - Charles Daniels, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts
  • Magnificat anima mea - Et exsultavit - Quia respexit - Robert Harre-Jones, Rodrigo Del Pozo, Charles Pott, Simon Grant, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort, Boy's Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral, Kristian Olesen, Finn Evald
Publisher: Archiv Produktion
Release date: 1999-11-15
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Charles Pott
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.99

Review Schütz: Christmas Vespers /Gabrieli Consort & Players · McCreesh / Archiv Produktion:

Heinrich Schütz's Christmas Story, besides being a historical milestone, has always been one of 17th-century music's crowd-pleasers-the former because it's the ancestor of Christmas oratorios by Bach, Charpentier and even Berlioz; the latter because it presents engaging depictions of the characters in the Nativity story with a cornucopia of colourful instruments (piping recorders for the shepherds, a galumphing bassoon-representing the gait of the camels?-for the three wise men, regally blaring cornets for King Herod, and pompous trombones for his priests). As you might expect, there are a number of fine recordings of this proto-oratorio, from the graceful and somewhat delicate rendition of René Jacobs to the high-energy performance of Robert King (on Hyperion). As usual, Paul McCreesh goes where no one has gone before, showing us the context for which Schütz probably wrote the work in the first place: a Christmas Day Vespers service at the court in Dresden where the composer was chapel master. McCreesh's reconstruction includes thrilling performances of two Christmas hymns (with tunes by Luther himself), organ music by Scheidt, a psalm from Schütz's collection Psalmen Davids, a delicate motet for four soloists, and (in an electrifying reading) a lavish multiple-choir Magnificat. Alongside all these, McCreesh's rendition of the Christmas Story seems-well, not lacklustre, exactly (it's very skillfully done, and Susan Hemington Jones as the Angel is a particular treat), but a bit less inspired than the rest of the programme. So if that one work is all you care about, you may want to consider the Jacobs or King versions; otherwise, this disc won't disappoint-it's as exciting a Christmas record as you'll find. -Matthew Westphal.

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