Johnny Mathis - Christmas with Johnny Mathis
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Artist: Johnny MathisBrand: MATHIS,JOHNNY
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-07-16
Music Label: Columbia
Product features:
- Christmas Music
- Compact Disk
- The Sounds Of Christmas
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- A Marshmallow World
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- The Secret Of Christmas
- Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer
- Carol Of The Bells
- Christmas Is A Feeling In Your Heart
- Hallelujah Chorus
Music reviews of Christmas with Johnny Mathis
Music Review: The second golden Xmas Mathis collection with a great gift: arrangements by Don Costa
Rating: 5 Stars
Christmas Music is part of the American Way of Life. Year after year, American people get full of joy and the pleasure of listening to Christmas Music becomes a must.Also artists from many different styles and their labels are very conscious about it. It is rare to find an artist from the traditional pop scene who has not recorded at least one Christmas Album.
Unfortunately, this Christmas tradition in American music scene is fading away among young artists though sales keep hot in the season. This proves traditional pop artists have got a market niche which maintains year after year even selling the very same album that has been recorded many decades ago.
Repertoire is basically the same and this is another peculiar facet of Christmas Music. This is an indicator of the traditional `American way of buying music'.
It is commonplace in the USA that many different traditional pop artists record the same hit song in a season. For instance, I remember that `The Shadow of Your Smile' has been recorded by Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Peggy Lee, and even Astrud Gilberto, besides its sensational OST by Johnny Mandel. This shows Americans like to listen to that same song or repertoire as recorded specifically by their favorite artists.
It is different than the music industry and customers in Brazil, for instance. If an artist records the same songs as other one does, he is minorly categorized as a `cover artist'. This is a bad category which labels the artist a minor artist, lacking creativeness as for Brazilian market parameters.
It is very interesting, anyway, to listen to the same repertoire as recorded by so many different artists from so many different times under so many different arrangement concepts. Comparison arises inevitably. Somehow, a delicious comparison. What's the best `Jingle Bells' from Johnny Mathis to Diana Krall? Who's recorded the most creative `Silent Night' - Wynton Marsalis or Nat King Cole? There is a killer `Jingle Bells' recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra under arrangement by Michel Legrand and with Jean Pierre Rampal on flute. Ooooh God!
Year after year, those albums are made available by continuous reissuing or not. Some even keep in the label's catalog on and on even out the Christmas season.
This is the case for this CD `Christmas with Johnny Mathis' which is in fact the CD issue of part of Mathis 1964 album 'The Sounds of Christmas' recorded by one the most important stylists of American song and superbly arranged by the late Don Costa. Recorded for his new label Global Records and distributed by Mercury Records, this new effort still shows the great voice which is a treasure of the Great American Songbook.
Some uncommon and some common Xmas songs make up the program. Never mind. Mathis' style imparts each song a particular touch, highly inspired, emotionally crafted, technically perfect.
This album consists of some delicious uncommon songs on the theme. Here you'll find an original 'Marshmellow World' in Don Costa typical 4/4 with brass and backing vocals, a perfect vehicle for Mathis' voice.
A beautiful Christmas album by Johnny Mathis. Someone said his is the voice of Christmas. This second album in his Xmas series confirms it. I'm willing to agree.
As others have mentioned, I parallel them in their protest against the unexplainable Sony Records politics by cutting two tracks from the original album.
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