Andy Williams - The Andy Williams Christmas Album
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Artist: Andy WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- White Christmas
- Medley: Happy Holidays/The Holiday Season
- The Christmas Song
- It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
- A Song and a Christmas Tree (The Twelve Days of Christmas)
- Kay Thompson's Jingle Bells
- The First Noel
- O Holy Night
- Away in a Manger
- Sweet Little Jesus Boy
- The Little Drummer Boy
- Silent Night
Music reviews of The Andy Williams Christmas Album
Music Review: ANDY WILLIAMS IS AMONG THE MOST SUPERB SINGERS IN POPULAR MUSIC - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF CHRISTMAS CDS
Rating: 5 Stars
Andy Williams, Elvis Presley, and Sam Cooke had the very best voices that I have ever heard within popular music and all three recorded music in roughly the same time period. And yet, for some reason, the many songs of both Sam Cooke and Elvis Presley have had a greater staying power in today's popular culture than do the many songs of Andy Williams. One might say that this difference in staying power is because only Andy Williams was strictly known as a "crooner." However, Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke also sang many ballads and popular standards, as well as their more upbeat rock, rhythm and blues, and soul music. Thus it is probably something about Andy Williams' songs and their arrangements that cause us to sometimes only vaguely remember Andy Williams' many beautiful songs. Perhaps most of Andy Williams' famous songs and their arrangements were just too romantic and just too lavishly produced to remain still highly praiseworthy in today's more rational, results-driven culture. So let us all listen to Andy Williams sing only one type of popular music, traditional Christmas standards. Traditional Christmas standards are always popular and never go out of style, in contrast with highly romantic and lavishly produced songs which are less praised today than they were in the past. WILL PEOPLE TODAY, INCLUDING MYSELF, BETTER RECOGNIZE THE SUPREME VOCAL TALENT OF ANDY WILLIAMS AFTER FIRST LISTENING TO ANDY WILLIAMS SING TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS STANDARDS? The information used to answer this question will include both other amazon reviewers' ratings of the Andy Williams Christmas Album cd and my own conclusions about Andy William's vocal talents after carefully listening to this cd. I will also compare Andy Williams' voice to Elvis Presley's voice while they are both singing traditional Christmas standards. Sam Cooke never created a Christmas album. After first reading the 56 other reviews of Andy Williams' Christmas Album, I found six reviewers (11 percent) who stated that Andy Williams was one of the best singers of all-time and sixteen reviewers (29 percent) who said that Andy Williams' Christmas Album was one of the best Christmas cds of all-time. One reviewer commented that "Andy's voice is incomparable." Another reviewer stated that Andy Williams' Christmas Album cd is "perhaps the greatest compilation of music ever to grace the human ear." Forty seven of the fifty six other reviewers (84 percent) gave the Andy Williams' Christmas Album cd a five-star rating. Overall, these results about other reviewer's ratings provide substantial positive support for both the superb quality of Andy William's voice and the outstanding quality of the traditional Christmas music sung by Andy Williams on the Andy Williams' Christmas Album cd. EIGHTY-FOUR PERCENT OF THE REVIEWERS WERE MOST HIGHLY IMPRESSED WITH THE VOCAL TALENT OF ANDY WILLIAMS AFTER LISTENING TO HIM SING TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS STANDARDS. Next, I will turn to my own impressions about Andy Williams' voice after first listening to the Andy Williams' Christmas Album cd. When I listened to Christmas Album, the supreme beauty of Andy Williams' superb voice was truly inspiring. Andy Williams' Christmas Album is certainly THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS CD that I own! Anyone who ever listens to Andy Williams sing White Christmas, The First Noel, O Holy Night, Sweet Little Jesus Boy, and Silent Night, Holy Night will have to testify to the extremely superb beauty of Andy Williams' voice. Andy Williams' greatest musical achievement was to record Christmas Album! Few of the songs on other Andy Williams' cds that I own are sung as beautifully, or are as enthralling to listen to, as are the traditional Christmas songs that are sung on Andy Williams' Christmas Album cd. The remastered sound quality of this cd is also excellent. I highly treasure Christmas Album, and I will play it with great joy at every Christmas season. Andy Williams' Christmas Album has my highest positive recommendation, this is a MUST BUY cd! AFTER HEARING ANDY WILLIAMS SING TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS STANDARDS, I AM MORE CONVINCED THAN EVER BEFORE THAT ANDY WILLIAMS HAD ONE OF THE MOST SUPERB VOICES IN POPULAR MUSIC! To offer one additional check upon my praise-filled conclusions about Andy Williams' voice, I also compared his voice on Christmas Album to the voice of Elvis Presley as he sang traditional Christmas songs on the remastered If Every Day Was Like Christmas cd, a collection of all of Elvis' Christmas recordings. Elvis Presley was a master of rhythm and blues music, and many of the "Christmas songs" that he made famous are in fact rhythm and blues songs. So let us standardize the comparison by comparing only the seven traditional Christmas songs that Elvis sang to the 12 traditional Christmas songs that Andy Williams sang on Christmas Album. WHEN BOTH ARTISTS SING TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS STANDARDS, ANDY WILLIAMS' VOICE SOUNDS MUCH FULLER AND MUCH BETTER THAN DOES THE VOICE OF ELVIS PRESLEY. In conclusion, all information contained in this review indicates that Andy Williams had one of the most superb voices in popular music and that Andy Williams' Christmas Album is the most beautiful of Christmas cds.
John
Description of The Andy Williams Christmas Album
This was one of the best-selling Christmas records of the 1960s, and with good cause! Somehow, without the fatherly image of Bing Crosby, or the svelte croon of Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett, or even the reverent innocence of Perry Como, Andy Williams managed to make a holiday institution! This collection of Christmas songs is full of standards normally identified with other artists, but armed with an average tenor and lots of exuberance, Andy Williams made them his own. His "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is the most exhilarating version of the song there is, and even his "White Christmas" and "O Holy Night" are more than just passable. This is not only Williams's best Christmas collection, this is one that should be in every holiday music collection. --Steve GdulaBroadway & Vocalists CDs
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