Holidays

Track Listings

1. Flute Quartet in D Major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2. Fantasia on Greensleeves Ralph Vaughan Williams

3. Christmas Concerto Arcangelo Corelli

4. Winter from The Four Seasons Antonio Vivaldi

5. Abdelazer Suite Henry Purcell

6. Pifa from The Messiah George Frideric Handel

7. Aria in Classic Style Marcel Grandjany

8. I Wonder as I Wander Appalachian carol

9. Simple Gifts Shaker tune

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Holidays

The San Francisco String Quartet with Flute, Harp, and Harpsichord

Nathan Rubin, violin; Jim Shallenberger, violin; Duncan Johnstone, viola; Sharon O’Connor, cello; Alan Cox, flute; Dan Levitan, harp; Giddeon Meir, harpsichord

Festive music for home entertaining from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve. Liner notes include holiday recipes from acclaimed American restaurants. Two percent of proceeds are donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Tracks:

Jingle Bells
Green Christmas
I Saw Three Ships
Hanukkah Blessings
O Holy Night
Elf's Lament
Snowmen
Do They Know It's Christmas?
Hanukkah O Hanukkah
God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman/We Three Kings
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Carol of the Bells
Footprints
Deck the Stills
Christmastime (Oh Yeah)
Sleigh Ride
Christmas Pics
I Have a Little Dreidel
Wonderful Christmastime
Auld Lang Syne

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Few bands are better suited than the Barenaked Ladies to take obnoxious old Christmas jingles to an entirely new level of obnoxiousness. The Canadian pop group does a smack-up job on this generous collection, where they tackle children's relics like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," curious seasonal fare such as Band-Aid's Ethiopian charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas," and a handful of tongue-in-cheek originals that share the bookish humor of the band's hits like "One Week" and "Brian Wilson." Even the inclusion of three Hannukah songs doesn't raise the bar for reverence. The disc also includes collaborations with Sarah McLachlan and Michael Buble. --Aidin Vaziri

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Barenaked Ladies celebrate the holiday season with their ninth major release, Barenaked For The Holidays. This release features many holiday favorites, including "Do They Know It's Christ- mas"(written by Bob Geldof )and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," performed with Sarah McLachlan, and seven original tracks including BNL's new holiday single "Elf 's Lament," featuring Michael Bublé. Ed Robertson and Steven Page"s distinctive vocals give a fresh sound to traditional holiday classics. Barenaked For The Holidays is sure to be a holiday favorite that is fun,witty and dynamic.

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What We Did on Our Holidays
Fairport Convention
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007J36W
Release Date: 2003-03-10

Tracks:

You're Gonna Need My Help
Some Sweet Day

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Their second album captures Fairport Convention poised between the more embryonic, American-influenced rock of their debut and the more pronounced British folk-rock that would follow. Newly arrived vocalist Sandy Denny contributes her haunting songs and indelibly husky voice, Ian (later Iain) Matthews lofts his angelic tenor into the mix, and the set list is the most diverse they would ever offer, stacking solid covers of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan beside traditional English songs and stirring originals from Denny, Matthews, Richard Thompson, and Ashley Hutchings. As such, Holidays works both on its own terms and as a position paper on Fairport's emerging ambition to find a distinctive accent for their alternately hearty, witty, and somber music. --Sam Sutherland

Album Description

Remastered reissue of classic second album, originally released in 1969, includes three bonus tracks, 'Throwaway Street Puzzle', 'You're Gonna Need My Help' (BBC), 'Some Sweet Day', & a slipcase with the first pressing. Includes sleevenotes by co-founder Ashley Hutchings. 15 tracks. Universal Island. 2003.

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Digitally Remastered Edition of the Second Fairport Convention LP and the First to Include the Presence of Sandy Denny was Recorded in 1968. It Showcases a Young Group Taking Pleasure in Singing and Playing Whatever Took Its' Collective Fancy, and Doing this with Surprising Sensitivity, Authority and Musicality. Also Evident is the Trademark Unpredictability and Wacky Sense of Fun which Marked their Live Concerts . Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Puzzled; That was Early Fairport. Includes Three Bonus Tracks. "Throwaway Street Puzzle" was Released as the B-side of the "Meet on the Ledge" Single. "You're Gonna Need My HELP" is a Rare BBC Radio Recording from 1969 and features a Virtuoso Slide-guitar Performance by Richard Thompson. "Some Sweet Day" was Originally Recorded to Be Released as a Single but was Shelved in Favour of "Meet on the Ledge".

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The Time-Life Treasury of Christmas

Manufacturer: Time Life Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005NOZH
Release Date: 2001-09-11

Tracks:

Home For The Holidays - Perry Como
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Jingle Bells - Ella Fitzgerald
Do You Hear What I Hear? - Andy Williams
Carol Of The Bells/Deck The Halls - The Robert Shaw Chorale
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day - Harry Belafonte
Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
My Favorite Things - Eddie Fisher
Joy To The World - Julie Andrews
Here We Come A-Caroling - The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
March Of The Toys - The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
O Holy Night - Luciano Pavarotti

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Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry
It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams
The Twelve Days Of Christmas - Roger Whittaker
Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy - The Boston Pops Orchestra
Mary's Boy Child - Harry Belafonte
I'll Be Home For Christmas - Elvis Presley
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
Sleigh Ride - Johnny Mathis
Tennessee Christmas - Alabama
Baby's First Christmas - Connie Francis
The Little Drummer Boy - Harry Simeone Chorale
Auld Lang Syne - Guy Lombardo

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Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas
Vonda Shepard , and Various Artists - Holidays
Manufacturer: Sony
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ASIN: B000050HV4
Release Date: 2000-11-07

Tracks:

This Christmas
The Man With The Bag
Please Come Home For Christmas
Silver Bells
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Winter Wonderland - Macy Gray
Run, Rudolph, Run - Jane Krakowski
Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney - Lisa Nicole Carson
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Jane Krakowski
Santa Baby - Calista Flockhart
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
River - Robert Downey, Jr
White Christmas - Robert Downey, Jr/Vonda Shepard
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve

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Ally McBeal has dominated television for three years, so why not a Christmas album for fans who number 20 million or more? Truth be told, this is really a Vonda Shepard record (she's Ally's TV singing voice), with a little help from the McBeal cast, including Ally (née Calista Flockhart), who successfully tries on Eartha Kitt's silly, sassy, seductive "Santa Baby." With 14 tracks and Macy Gray's distinctive "Winter Wonderland" included, the album covers lots of turf, as Shepard and company cover hymns and carols that are sparsely arranged and appealing for their soulful simplicity. Shepard's soprano talent continues to reveal its many riches. Here's a singer who's at home in a gut-bucket blues tune such as "Please Come Home for Christmas" and strolling down Broadway, joyfully swinging on "The Man with the Bag." Additional surprises include Shepard's duet with Robert Downey Jr. on "White Christmas" and Joni Mitchell's "River." Recommended. --Martin Keller

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Sleigh Ride

Manufacturer: Boston Pops Rec.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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My Favorite Things: A Richard Rodgers Celebration

ASIN: B000B2WK78
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

Joy to the World - A Fanfare for Christmas Day (After Handel)
Sleigh Ride
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Messiah, Oratoria/Hallelujah Chorus
Three Botticelli Pictures/The Adoration of the Magi
Songs from the Hill Folk; I Wonder as I Wander; the Seven Joys of ...
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Kije Takes a Ride (After Prokofiev)
Winter Weather Melody (I. Berlin: I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm; T.
O Holy Night
Joy!
Happy Holidays (I. Berlin: Happy Holiday; K. Thompson: The Holiday ...)

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SLEIGH RIDE features conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra in their 9th album together. Chock full of glittering holiday favorites, SLEIGH RIDE includes "Joy to the World", the Hallelujah Chorus (from The Messiah), "Twas the Night Before Christmas", "O Holy Night," and many others, performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra and featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor.

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Happy Holidays
Kelly Willis , and Bruce Robison
Manufacturer: Rykodisc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Wintersong

ASIN: B000H0M556
Release Date: 2006-08-29

Tracks:

Santa Baby
A Winter's Tale
In The Bleak Midwinter
Baby, It's Cold Outside
The Christmas Waltz
Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk
Blue Christmas
Shut In At Christmas
Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Oklahoma Christmas

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This expanded reissue of Willis and Robison's 2003 EP does precisely what the best Christmas albums have always done: reinterpret, revive, and refresh the tradition, while remaining intensely musical. The rotating cast of players--including young Austin pals Andrew Nafziger, Eamon McLoughlin, and Warren Hood, as well as keyboard ringers Chip Dolan and Floyd Domino--serve every song with the right balance of grit and glow. The arrangements, even when stringed up on "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," never cross the line into schmaltz and never overwhelm. The slowly swinging, jazzy opener, "Santa Baby," can't equal Eartha Kitt's definitive version, but Willis's restrained-but-sexy delivery comes close. While the band can't rock the twang quite like the Buckaroos, they still get a swampy romp out of Buck Owens's classic "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" and an elegant electric piano-driven waltz from "Blue Christmas," which Willis delicately transforms into a country-soul aria. Robison's lead singing has never been powerful enough to score on the charts; here, he's just playful and amateurish enough to undercut the cornpone of "Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk" and scratchy and sincere enough to redeem the bathos of Charlie Louvin's "Shut In at Christmas." The closing Robison original, a live version of "Oklahoma Christmas," may never become a standard, but its honest and hilarious satire of homestead piety is classic--as is the whole album. --Roy Kasten

Album Description

Happy Holidays is classic Christmas with a cool country twist. From standards like "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "Santa Baby" to not so traditional tracks like "Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk," Happy Holidays is a musical Christmas card from Kelly and Bruce to their fans. They celebrate their favorite family season with "Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy," "Oklahoma Christmas" and the classic "Blue Christmas."

Tracks:

Frosty The Snow Man
Blue Christmas
The Christmas Waltz
I Wonder As I Wander
Silver Bells
Mary's Little Boy Child
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
The Happy Elf
I'll Be Home For Christmas
I Come With Love
Nature Boy
Little Town Of Bethlehem
I'm Gonna Be The First One
This Christmas
Nothin' New For New Year
Silent Night

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Call him the retro Sinatra, the keeper of the big band flame, the swingin' piano man, but Harry Connick Jr., remains one of New Orleans' treasures. His second Christmas CD is as much a salute to his hometown musical roots as it is to the season. Filled with second-line arrangements and fierce horn charts that could blow all that holiday chill back to Canada, Connick's latest revisits upbeat standards such as "Frosty The Snowman," "Blue Christmas," "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," and others. Most swing and romp, but the hymns are given the reverential vocal treatment that Connick is known for on his more secular love ballads. Surprises include a quirky arrangement of "Silver Bells," in what sounds all the world like a Henry Mancini score for an action film. And there's four Connick originals that don't quite match the level of the covers, except for what must be the oddest pairing of talents all season, the duet with country singer George Jones on "Nothin' New For the New Year," an inspired tune and performance from two master stylists. There's nothing quite as lasting as the chestnut he penned on his first Christmas CD, "I Pray on Christmas," but for fans, here's a merry Harry N'awlins holiday love fest. --Martin Keller

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Hung for the Holidays
William Hung
Manufacturer: Koch Records
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ASIN: B0002PUHSI
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

Holiday Greetings & Wishes
Deck The Halls
O Come All Ye Faithful
Greeting: Holiday Reminder
Silver Bells
Little Drummer Boy
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Winter Wonderland
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Ives: Holidays Symphony

Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000026G7
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Washington's Birthday
Decoration Day
The Fourth Of July
Thanksgiving And Forefathers' Day
The Unanswered Question (revised version)
Central Park In The Dark
The Unanswered Question (original version)

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Ives never really intended his four holiday symphonic poems to be played together, and they are very seldom performed that way live. But it makes so much sense to group them on a recording that the Holidays Symphony has become the standard way to refer to the music. In any event, all four pieces offer some of Ives'ss finest, most imaginative work. The Fourth of July is the second most complex and crazy piece that he ever wrote--right up there with the second movement of the Fourth Symphony. Tilson Thomas is very much a specialist in this music, and he directs performances of almost supernatural accuracy. Simply the best. --David Hurwitz

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Holidays in Dementia
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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ASIN: B0000033NK
Release Date: 1995-10-24

Tracks:

The Twelve Pains Of Christmas - Bob Rivers Comedy Corp.
It's So Chic To Be Pregnant At Christmas - Nancy White
Gridlock Christmas - The Hollytones
It's Christmas And I Wonder Where I Am - The Bob & Tom Band
Santa Claus Is Watching You - Ray Stevens
Santa's Lament - Father Guido Sarducci
Rusty Chevrolet - Da Yoopers
Christmas Is Coming Twice This Year - The Hollytones
Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Joseph Spence
A Terrorist Christmas - James & Kling
Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie
The Pretty Little Dolly - Mona Abboud
Hanukkah Rocks - Gefilte Joe & The Fish
Hanukkah Homeboy - Doc Mo She
Happy New Year - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
New Year's Resolutions - Scary Gary Alan

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Dr. Demento is an archivist elf of the first order. Testament to his timeworn ways is this collection of fractured holidays tunes and his earlier The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time. The good Doc showcases 17 tunes here, although the collection could do without nearly a quarter of those, including Joseph Spence's oddity "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and the Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping." The latter is a pop-rap tune that sounds pretty tame in the cracked company of the inimitable Bob Rivers ("The Twelve Pains of Christmas"), Spike Jones (sending up New Year's resolutions), and Father Guido Sarducci ("Santa's Lament"). Then there's James & Kling's perverse "A Terrorist Christmas," as well as a couple of loopy Hanukkah tunes, one a rap number by Doc Mo She and the other from Gefilte Joe & the Fish. --Martin Keller

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1. Flute Quartet in D Major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2. Fantasia on Greensleeves Ralph Vaughan Williams
3. Christmas Concerto Arcangelo Corelli
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5. Abdelazer Suite Henry Purcell
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