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J'ai beaucoup apprécié le fait que dans le même coffret on puisse avoir un cd de chansons traditionnelles de Noël et dans l'autre cd radicalement plus moderne des chansons de Noël qui ne font pas fuir les jeunes de la table du réveillon. The high point is the finger-poppin' "Christmas Night in Harlem," when he growls, "Everyone's gonna sit up til after 3/ Everyone, we be all lit up, like a Christmas tree," and throws in a big, winking belly laugh for party-boss punctuation. If you time it so you pass out while the album-ending instrumental “Christmas Blues” is rolling by, you may get lucky and sleep ’til New Year’s Eve. It's a balancing act we didn't know we needed, and it may just be the most unique entry on this list.

However, neither achieved the seismic success we all associate with Carey and Christmas until 25 years later. Motown culls tunes from the Miracles, Supremes, Jacksons, Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, with highlights ranging from the Miracles' subtly grooving "Jingle Bells" to Wonder's lovely "What Christmas Means to Me" to the Supremes' awesomely pedagogic "Children's Christmas Song," featuring Diana Ross in Sunday school-teacher mode leading a kids choir.Los Lobos pored over 150 regional and seasonal hits before landing on the 11 they wanted to record and introduce to new listeners, and within a few spins, each track became just as familiar as the holiday hits we've loved for years. Think Norah Jones' 2021 Christmas record I Dream of Christmas, which offers sentimental and nostalgic takes on classic songs and originals alike, or Los Lobos' Llegó Navidad, which introduces some listeners to beloved Mexican holiday hits. In spite of this situation, we are going to look at inventive ways to look at serving our readership with digital content and of course in print too! Irving Berlin, the author of "White Christmas," was so scandalized by Elvis's 1957 version of the song that he tried to get it banned from radio.

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!And the whopping 42 tunes range from holiday classics to originals, such as the ode to stressed-out parents, "That Was the Worst Christmas Ever! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The best imaginable host for a Christmas get-together, Armstrong beams welcoming warmth and easygoing cheer on this recent compilation of his recordings with friends like Mel Torme, Dinah Washington, Duke Ellington and Lena Horne.

The first, and best, of Elvis’s seasonal offerings, made when Presley was still within touching distance of his early, raw rockabilly years: listen to the intense, bluesy opener, Santa Claus Is Back in Town, for proof. The title track was recorded by Roy Orbison in 1963 and was eventually released on Nelson's first Christmas record more than a decade later.Instead, Elvis' Christmas Album topped the Billboard charts for a month and went on to sell nearly 20 million copies in various editions. Karen and Richard Carpenter are at their seasonal best with this 1978 holiday album that has since gone platinum, and with good reason.

These albums finished in 1998, although the series was picked up again in 2001 under a new name, The Album:.

In the mid 1960s, the Beach Boys were hardly known for their ability (or desire) to restrain themselves, and that is definitely apparent in their 1964 holiday offering.