Gene Autry - Rudolph Red Nosed Reindeer & Other Christmas Classics
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Artist: Gene AutryBrand: AUTRY,GENE
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-09-16
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
- He's A Chubby Little Fellow
- Santa, Santa, Santa
- If It Dosen't Snow On Christmas Day
- When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter
- Frosty The Snow Man
- The Night Before Christmas Song
- The Night Before Christmas (In Texas, That Is)
- Where Did My Snowman Go?
- I Wish My Mom Would Marry Santa Claus
- Sleigh Bells
- 'Round 'Round The Christmas Tree
- Merry Christmas Waltz
- Everyone's A Child At Christmas
- You Can See Old Santa Claus
- Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
- Up On The Housetop
Music reviews of Rudolph Red Nosed Reindeer & Other Christmas Classics
Music Review: The Christmas Classics from the Singing Cowboy himself
Rating: 5 Stars
Everybody knows that the biggest Christmas hit of the first half of the 20th century was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas." Now, the question is whether you know that Gene Autry's recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" comes in second on that list (no idea what is third, sorry). The story is that Autry only recorded the song because his wife told him to. The singing cowboy had already had a major holiday hit with "Here Comes Santa Claus" and would have another with "Frosty the Snowman." Autry had a rather large catalogue of Christmas songs, as this collection amply proves. These songs were recorded in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and include some songs that I absolutely guarantee you have never heard before, such as the Autry originals "He's a Chubby Little Fellow" and "I Wish My Mom Would Marry Santa Claus." There is also a duet with Rosemary Clooney of "The Night Before Christmas (In Texas, That Is)"; the song comes in two parts because of the limitation on how much music you could get on one side of a single way back when (a time closer to Edison's wax discs than the CD). This 2003 release adds a couple of tracks to the CBS "Christmas Favorites" album from a while back, and remasters the entire bunch. That does not exactly make these songs sound like they were recorded last week, but they do sound better and there is something totally appropriate about the old fashioned sound of these recordings that you do not really want them tampering with anyway. It is interesting to note that the most "traditional" song Autry does is the last track, "Up on the Rooftop"; most of these songs are about Santa Claus. You would think there would be something less secular, especially given we are talking about a major country western star, but that is not the case. Apparently that was the way things were a half-century ago. Just remember, this collection is nostalgia and not kitsch, even if these songs were recorded before you were born.
Description of Rudolph Red Nosed Reindeer & Other Christmas Classics
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Media Type: CD
Artist: AUTRY,GENE
Title: RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER & OTHER CHRISTMAS C
Street Release Date: 09/16/2003
Genre: XMAS VOCAL
The late Gene Autry (a.k.a. the "Singing Cowboy" and the former owner of the Anaheim Angels) co-wrote the popular standard "Here Comes Santa Claus" in 1947. Over the next six years he seemed to keep reinventing it, if this 18-song collection of Autry?s recorded Christmas music is any indication. There's "Santa, Santa, Santa," "He's A Chubby Little Fellow," and "I Wish My Mom Would Marry Santa Claus"--all variations on a theme (but what Christmas music isn't?). Still, for lovers of cowboy music and particularly Autry's amicable straight-forward vocal style, this is a respectable, unvarnished collection that also includes a duet with Rosemary Clooney ("The Night Before Christmas Song"), a number of tunes penned by Johnny Marks (including "Rudolph?"), and a couple of notable "Frosty the Snowman" themes. There?s also a little ditty called "Sleigh Bells," co-inked by the Singing Cowboy six years after his success with "Here Comes Santa Claus," as proof that lightning does strike twice. --Martin Keller
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