Bing Crosby - Christmas Classics
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Artist: Bing CrosbyBrand: CROSBY,BING
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- White Christmas (from The Frank Sinatra Show - 12/20/1957)
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Winter Wonderland
- What Child Is This? / The Holly And The Ivy
- The Little Drummer Boy
- O Holy Night
- The Littlest Angel
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Frosty The Snowman
- Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
- I Wish You A Merry Christmas
- Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Pat-A-Pan / While Shepherds Watched Their Flock
- Christmas Dinner Country Style
- Peace On Earth / The Little Drummer Boy (Bing Crosby & David Bowie) [From 1977 TV Special "Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas"]
Music reviews of Christmas Classics
Music Review: An Essential Christmas Album From The Voice Of Christmas!
Rating: 5 Stars
Capitol Records has given us an early Christmas present by reissuing and expanding it's 1999 Bing Crosby's Christmas Classics CD compilation. This new version, now titled Bing Crosby Christmas Classics, was released Tuesday September 26th.
Gone is the dark cover photo of a piece of sheet music on a piano with a small b/w photo of Bing circa 1963 (which was first used when Capitol hastily reissued an abridged version of Bing's 1962 Warner Bros. Christmas album I Wish You A Merry Christmas in 1977 following Bing's passing). In it's place on this new CD is the original painting that was used on that 1962 Warner Bros. LP! Many people have asked me over the years if that album has ever been reissued on CD with the original artwork. Apart from a late 1980's Australian Axis label CD release of the album that's now virtually impossible to find, 2006's Capitol compilation marks that well-remembered cover painting's first widespread use in over 40 years!
Inside the booklet are full page photos of Bing, including a 1965 Hollywood Palace publicity photo in color, and a b/w photo of Bing & David Bowie. On the backside of the case is a nice photo in silhouette of Bing in tux and tails standing behind a mike onstage at the Academy Awards in 1955.
The CD contains all of the tracks issued on the 1999 release, with a new opening track...White Christmas from the 1957 Frank Sinatra Christmas TV show. It credits this cut as being a "Nelson Riddle Arrangement", when in reality, this is the arrangement Paul Weston wrote for Bing's A Christmas Sing With Bing annual radio show in 1955. Now Reprise released the full length version of this song, complete with Frank taking the last chorus as a duet with Bing, as part of it's 2004 Frank Sinatra: The Christmas Collection CD compilation, but here Capitol re-edited the track to omit Frank's vocal! It makes for an oddly short track with a chopped ending, clocking at 1:34.
The other new track is a stunningly crisp 24-bit remastered version of Bing's 1950 Decca recording of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, an obvious choice to follow the '62 album cut of Frosty The Snowman with on the disc.
Do You Hear What I Hear and Christmas Dinner, Country Style are also here rounding out the disc with the full length dialogue version of Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth with David Bowie (recorded 9/11/77). Once again, however, as on it's 1999 release Capitol didn't create a separate cue point to the beginning of the music portion of the duet with Bowie. This would've been beneficial, giving the listener the option of cueing past the dialogue portion if they wished.
However, it's nice to see Capitol keeping this album in print and taking the time and effort to improve upon it.
Description of Christmas Classics
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Media Type: CD
Artist: CROSBY,BING
Title: CHRISTMAS CLASSICS
Street Release Date: 09/26/2006
Genre: XMAS VOCAL
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