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Billboard Hot Digital Songs#3 U.S. Billboard Harlem Hit Parade (three weeks at #1)#7 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles#32 U.S. Cash Box Magazine Top SinglesChristmas Island-Andrews Sisters & Guy Lombardo#7 U.S. Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits: 1935-1954 gets a B+.Side 1Fifteen minutes and fifty-one secondsWhite Christmas-Bing Crosby#1 U.S. Billboard Country SinglesSanta Baby-Eartha Kitt#4 U.S. Four of the songs even reached number one. Billboard Hot Digital Songs#8 U.S.
Billboard Country Singles#24 U.S. I just wish is could have been longer with more songs to it. Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits: 1935-1954 is twenty-nine minutes and forty-seconds and was released on August 4, 1989. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks#3 U.S.
The only down side it the cassette is too short and barely missing the half hour mark by twenty seconds. Billboard Hot 100 Singles#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Holiday SongsLet It Snow. You get a nice variety of Christmas songs on this cassette that range from White Christmas to Santa Baby.
Billboard Hot 100 Singles (two weeks at #1)#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Holiday SongsAll I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)-Spike Jones & His City Slickers#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles#4 U.S. Billboard Hot Holiday SongsThe Christmas Song-Nat King Cole#65 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 SinglesSide 2Thirteen minutes and forty-nine secondsI Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus-Jimmy Boyd#1 U.S.
Let It Snow.-Vaughn Monroe#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 SinglesHere Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)-Gene Autry#8 U.S. Cash Box Magazine Top Singles Billboard Hot 100 SinglesSilent Night-Bing Crosby#7 U.S. Bing Crosby and Gene Autry have two Christmas songs each while the remaining four have only one song.
Billboard Hot Digital Songs#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (five weeks at #1)Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer-Gene Autry#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (eleven weeks at #1)#1 U.S. Let It Snow.
Gene Autry's "Here Comes Santa Claus" is yet another classic upbeat Christmas song that I adore; Gene sings this without ever letting go of a superfluous note and that's grand. The melancholy ache of the song brings up a nostalgic feeling for a simpler time, perhaps when we were kids and our parents were always there to protect us and help us with life's ups and downs. I highly recommend this album. The percussion sounds great and the strings also make this number special.
The quality of the sound is terrific and the artwork is good even if it is standard for this CD series. There's one classic song after another and you'll find yourself pushing the "play" button on your CD player quite frequently once you pop this in. There's a part of me that loves to hear a Christmas tune nearly any old time of the year. There's no wonder--Christmas music is some of the best written, upbeat and catchiest music we hear all year long. The music fits in perfectly with their vocals and this is easily a major highlight of the album. The brass is used well in the musical arrangement, too.Gene Autry's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is another major highlight of this CD; Gene sings this very well and his excellent diction enhances his performance all the more.
The CD ends very nicely with the great Eartha Kitt performing "Santa Baby" along with Henri René & His Orchestra; what a great finish for this album.Overall, this is one CD of Christmas tunes you shouldn't pass up. "The Christmas Song" by Nat "King " Cole is heavenly; I could never tire of hearing Nat sing this so very well. In addition, just for a twist we get Spike Jones and George Rock doing their tune entitled "All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth);" this is a cute and amusing number even after all these years.Jimmy Boyd's "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is charming; the choir provides some mighty fine backup vocals as Jimmy sings this faultlessly. Bing Crosby returns for a splendid rendition of "Silent Night;" and Max Terr's Mixed Chorus works well for this song. "Let It Snow. "Christmas Island" by those Andrews Sisters just plain sounds good--and that musical interlude couldn't be better. The CD runs a bit short but on the other hand it is budget priced as of the time that I'm writing this; and that's a plus.
The piano arrangement is very elegant. Let It Snow." gets the royal treatment from Vaughn Monroe and The Norton Sisters; they make this memorable and Vaughn never sounded better. The CD starts with Bing Crosby's masterpiece, "White Christmas." Together with The Ken Darby Singers, Bing does this to perfection--and beyond. Let It Snow.
I grew up with a lot of these songs playing on an old record player. If you love classic Christmas albums, this is one to get. I've had this CD for a long time and it is a favorite.
Childhood friends I'd almost forgotten,my first girlfriend, all togather again on the streets of my old neighhood.Lower eastside,NYC. my early childhood and 'tween' years came dashing back right through the snow. I wasn't expecting that 'rush'.
Would highly recommend everyone having a copy. I love this CD. My 8 year old loves the classics listens to this CD often.
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