Track Listing DISC 1: CHRISTMAS SPIRIT: 1. There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays - Perry Como 2. White Christmas, song (from "Holiday Inn") 3. Jingle Bells 4. Do You Hear What I Hear? 5. Carol of the Bells: Carol Of The Bells / Deck The Halls - Robert Shaw Chorale 6. Deck the Halls (Welsh) - Harry Belafonte 7. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Elvis Presley 8. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Eddie Fisher 9. Blue Christmas 10. My Favorite Things, song (from "The Sound of Music"): My Favorite Things 11. My Favorite Things, song (from "The Sound of Music"): My Favorite Things 12. Joy to the World (theme by Handel)
DISC 2: CHRISTMAS MEMORIES: 1. Wassail Song ("Here We Come A-Wassailing"), carol - Gene Autry 2. March of the Toys, for orchestra (from "Babes in Toyland"): March of the Toys - Andy Williams 3. March of the Toys, for orchestra (from "Babes in Toyland"): March of the Toys - Roger Whittaker 4. Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra "O Holy Night" - Boston Pops Orchestra 5. Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra "O Holy Night" - Harry Belafonte 6. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Elvis Presley 7. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 8. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (from the cartoon "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") 9. Twelve Days of Christmas, The - Alabama 10. Nutcracker, suite from the ballet, Op. 71a: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Connie Francis 11. Mary's Boy Child 12. Mary's Boy Child - Guy Lombardo
| Details | | Playing Time: | 68 min. | | Distributor: | BMG Special Products | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes If you want that old-fashioned holiday feeling of spending Christmas in your grandparents' house while they pull out some of their favorite Yuletide LPs and play them on a well-worn phonograph (that's for records, kids), THE TIME-LIFE TREASURY OF CHRISTMAS is here to help. This two-disc collection is based around well known Christmas recordings by some of the biggest crooners of the pre-rock era. The original smoothie Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" is as unassailable as it is ubiquitous. Ella Fitzgerald sounds just as transcendent singing "Jingle Bells" as she did on any other tune she ever tackled. Even when Elvis Presley pops up, rock & roll is eschewed in favor of the lovelorn Christmas anthem "Blue Christmas."
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