Name: Christmas Songs By Frank Sinatra
Brand: Unbranded
SKU: 1433112
Price: 11.25 USD
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Tracks

1. White Christmas

2. Silent Night, Holy Night

3. Adeste Fideles (O, Come....)

4. Jingle Bells

5. Have Yourself A Merry...

6. Christmas Dreaming

7. It Came Upon The Midnight...

8. O Little Town Of Bethlehem

9. Santa Claus Is Coming To...

10. Let It Snow!Let It Snow...

11. Introduction By General...

12. Medley: Joy To The World...

13. Ave Maria

14. Winter Wonderland

15. The Lord's Prayer

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Frank Sinatra (vocals); Alex Stordahl (arranger, conductor); Bobby Tucker Singers, Ken Lane Singers, B. Swanson Quartet, Jeff Alexander Orchestra & Chorus, Mitchell Boys Choir.
Recorded from 1944 to 1949. Includes liner notes by Roy Hemming.
Digitally remastered using Cedar and NoNoise technology by Tom Ruff (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).
It should come as no surprise that Frank Sinatra would have a special way with Christmas songs just as he did with every other type of song. This welcome reissue is a slightly expanded version of Sinatra's original 1948 Christmas album and includes some 1945 V-Disc holiday performances especially recorded for the troops still stationed in Europe right after the war. The original 78s hold up incredibly well for Christmas music a half-century old.
Sinatra's approach to such chestnuts as "White Christmas"--only 2 years old in 1944--and "Silent Night" is straightforward, unsentimental and utterly convincing. It also owes nothing to Bing Crosby, who had a franchise on this kind of family fare. Sinatra's fresh, non-pietistic take on this material is geared more toward the unattached (young) man in the street rather than family men. The slightly sexy "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)" were for the very same G.I.s Sinatra had once entertained through his V-Discs, back home now and considering the uncertain (and slightly sexy) future looming before them.