If Cash's voice sounds earthbound, that suits his the moral of the song-poems: the true spirit of Christmas is loving your fellow man. OK, so there's a massive ghost version of ASVO, a creepy beach scene and a child on some sort of weird camping chair being pushed by an unknown adult. This album may have been Phil Spector's crowning achievement: majestic Wall of Sound production, electrifying vocals from the Crystals and Ronnie Spector, and best of all, Darlene Love singing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" like it was her one chance at happiness. For all its loving invocation of snow and mistletoe, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is one of the saddest Christmas songs ever.

The Ventures, the instrumental surf band famous for the "Hawaii Five-O" theme, came up with a simple formula on this fun 1965 album: start each song by quoting a rock hit, and then launch into a twangy cover of a Christmas classic. For this list, we culled the best Christmas albums: ones that you want to listen to year after year, not fascinating novelties. These included songs aimed at children such as “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, as well as sentimental ballad-type songs performed by famous crooners of the era, such as “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “White Christmas”, the latter of which remains the best-selling single of all time. Streaming, publishing and printing services and platforms, album cover art, book cover art, movie cover artwork, track art, poster design, flyer design, thumbnail or cover art, merchandise, unique branding, t-shirts, wallpaper, social media promotions and more.Far too many Christmas albums are cynical efforts by artists recycling the same old songs to bolster their catalog sales. This is awful and I love Christmas songs and have many cd's but this is one that I won't be playing again. Your e-mail address is only used to send you our newsletter and information about the activities of Christmas FM and partners. This includes items that pre-date sanctions, since we have no way to verify when they were actually removed from the restricted location.

Harris has always sung like an angel, and on this 1979 album she played the part, a living herald of joyful Nativity tidings. Items originating from areas including Cuba, North Korea, Iran, or Crimea, with the exception of informational materials such as publications, films, posters, phonograph records, photographs, tapes, compact disks, and certain artworks. On this 2005 album, they recruit their family, plus friends including Emmylou Harris and Beth Orton, to do songs that range from "O Little Town of Bethlehem" to Jackson Browne's "Rebel Jesus. The title is a misnomer: this 2013 collection is cobbled together from a Jones Christmas album, a Wynette Christmas album, and some holiday duets they recorded while married in the early '70s. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or, in the case of carols or songs, may employ lyrics whose subject matter ranges from the nativity of Jesus Christ, to gift-giving and merrymaking, to cultural figures such as Santa Claus, among other topics.Gwen Stefani's new Christmas album has 12 holiday songs, with half of them being written and co-written by Stefani. Check out his super-groovy take on "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," where Rudolph sounds like a lost soul brother who somehow ended up at the North Pole. Trippiest cut: Marvin Gaye's "Purple Snowflakes," which seems to be about acid rain, or maybe just acid. Cyndi Lauper may not be the first name you think of when it comes to Christmas music, but just see how long it takes to get “Feels Like Christmas” out of your head after one listen. There's a reason so many people want to hear Bingle jingle: Crosby was one of the great pre-rock crooners, with a gift for making even a familiar song sound like a secret he was whispering in your ear.

It looks like Michael is trying to squeeze out a last second fart, before he enters wherever he is going. What started out as dutiful recitations of Christmas thanks evolved over the years into charming verbal anarchy and then elaborate audio productions with sketches, poems, and songs. The teacher informed the student that they didn’t have AutoTuners back then, and his voice was really that good when they had to rely on talent.Days to Christmas – Louis Armstrong never released a full Christmas album in his lifetime, but recorded a number of 1950s hipster holiday tunes. Peterson, one of the most accomplished pianists in jazz history, played with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Count Basie, among other luminaries. Naturally, it's the centerpiece of this forlorn 2006 album by Aimee Mann, where she kicks off with "Whatever Happened to Christmas? And while everyone knows the classics, and a few besides, some compositions inevitably fade into obscurity.

Any goods, services, or technology from DNR and LNR with the exception of qualifying informational materials, and agricultural commodities such as food for humans, seeds for food crops, or fertilizers. One day he told me a story about one of his students commenting on how good and clear Bing Crosby’s voice was and he didn’t know they had AutoTuners back then.It won’t surprise you to know that we at Christmas FM have a VERY large catalogue of Christmas songs and albums. Louis Armstrong, genius trumpeter, gravel-voiced singer, and jazz pioneer, could turn on a dime between broad comedy and deeply felt emotion.