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List Price: £12.99
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Artist:
Tweenies
A Tweenies Christmas comes hot on the heels of their sell-out stadium tours, the success of their debut album Friends Forever and the continued success of their TV show. Filled equally with new compositions and cover versions of favourite festive tunes (there's seven of each on the album), this is the ideal collection for getting children (and parents) into the Christmas party mood. Opener "I Believe in Christmas" is a swinging, pop number in the style of S Club 7's "Reach" but with added sleigh bells. If it wasn't for the baby-speak Tweenie vocals, it would be difficult to differentiate between this track and Rachel and Co "doing their thing". Another new tune "Light Up the World" is a warm, feel-good song set on Christmas Eve, while "Fab-A-Rooney Christmas" is the Tweenies jovial Christmas anthem. At times though the toddler-talk (or singing) does complement the song, for instance Milo's nasal rendition of "Merry Xmas Everybody" almost resembles Noddy Holder's blaring vocals on the Slade original. --John Galilee
 tweenies without the irritation!!!, 2005-10-06
I have just bought this for the second time (1st one got mutilated!). Normally I cannot stand the tweenies but this CD is really quite good, and much better than some of the rubbish childrens music you can buy. It even manages to get both my kids away from the telly and up and dancing together without any arguments!
List Price: £15.99
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Artist:
Frank Sinatra
Talk about your gifts of Christmas past; The Christmas Collection is a must-have for any Sinatra-phile, right down to its family photos and one priceless shot of Sinatra swinging a golf club next to the tree wearing a Santa suit. Complete with four previously unreleased tracks (some from live TV specials)--including two with Bing Crosby ("The Christmas Song" and "White Christmas"), the 18-song collection surveys Sinatra's holiday output and its effects are often chilling. Listening to him glide soulfully through Jimmy Webb's melancholy but romantic "What Ever Happened to Christmas?" or hearing him do his immaculate phrasing on "Silent Night" when he was visibly frail and aging in 1991 are close encounters of a Sinatra kind that are rarely captured on one album. There's also a delightful "The Twelve Days of Christmas" sung with his kids Nancy and Frank, Jr., from their 1969 record The Sinatra Family Wish You A Merry Christmas and insightful and intimate liner notes by James Ritz, not to mention those magical orchestral arrangements. Here's a five-star package to remind us that it's still Frank's world--we just rent a stable in it. Highly recommended. --Martin Keller...
 Not the happiest Christmas collection, 2004-12-03
The title of this CD "The Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection" is quite significant, because it has been compiled by Warners from various sources, including a 1964 album with Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, a 1968 one with the other members of the Sinatra family, previously unreleased snippets from a 1957 TV show with Bing Crosby, and a 1991 recording for charity.
Highlights are The Christmas Waltz and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. The songs with Fred Waring are good, too, although on some of them there's not much Sinatra - in fact Go Tell It On The Mountain is nearly all Bing Crosby.
Crosby takes the lion's share of the three short duets from the 1957 TV show; Sinatra joins in, rather reluctantly and out of time at the end.
The family album must have sounded like a good idea at the time, but the songs and their arrangements now sound toe-curlingly embarassing. And he definitely sounds uncomfortable with the setting of Little Drummer Boy.
Christmas Memories, a single from 1965, is a maudlin tune, reminiscent of I Will Drink The Wine, belying the lyric about stringing popcorn and cookies baking in the kitchen. By this time Sinatra's voice was getting beyond its prime, and it sounds like it.
And so we come to Silent Night, which was originally recorded in 1991 for charity, with just a piano accompaniment - Johnny Mandel has added orchestration for this album. Daughter Nancy admits, in the accompanying booklet and DVD, that he was unwell at the time and had to be coaxed (to put it kindly) to do it. Listening to him struggling for breath is painful, and as much torture for the listener as it must have been for him - you end up feeling relieved he made it to the end.
The "bonus" DVD, all seven minutes of it, contains soundbites from members of the family as well as Johnny Mandel and some of the Sinatra alumni gathered together to record the orchestral backing for Silent Night. Then follows the recording itself, with very brief flashes of a young Sinatra and a Christmas tree.
Throughout all of this the orchestral backing, arrangements and production are as good as you would expect with any Sinatra recording - with the involvement of Nelson Riddle, Jack Halloran and Johnny Mandel they couldn't be anything else. It is the vocal input of Sinatra himself that falls short, which is a shame. There are other Sinatra Christmas CDs available, recorded during his spells with Capitol and earlier with US Columbia and these may be more rewarding; as emotional as his last recording here is I prefer to remember him at his peak rather than trying to eke out one last song in the twilight of his years.
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Artist:
Original Soundtrack
Miracle on 34th Street - A little ray of sunshine on a cloudy day kinda music, 2009-06-07
Now girls, I like to listen to this on the lead up to Christmas, batten down the hatches, shut out the world, get the old flameproof nighty and slippers on: a mug of cocoa and choccy biscuits, candles and either mellow out or if you have, as I do, many parcels to sort, this makes a lovely uplifting accompaniment to 'getting the job done'. A lovely sentimental and fun CD, a timeless classic.
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Less familiar than Bach's Passions, the Christmas Oratorio (1734) is a sacred celebration on a comparably expansive musical canvas. Conceived as a complete work sub-divided into six separate cantatas, each intended for use on a different one of the 12 days of Christmas in the churches of Leipzig, the complete performance is available as a three-disc set, while this collection contains 71 minutes of highlights. Further complicating matters, Bach reused material from existing secular works, nevertheless creating a new and seamless whole. Happily the release comes with useful notes outlining the origin of the work, together with full texts in German and English. Choosing these selections must have been an unenviable task; all six cantatas are represented, with chorales and arias evenly balanced throughout the programme. Soprano Ingrid Kertesi's aria from Part 4, which utilises a natural echo, is particularly beautiful, while throughout the performances and recorded sound are excellent. Substantially the same forces have also recorded Bach's St. Mathew Passion, given the highest rating by the Penguin Guide, as well as several programmes of Bach's cantatas. Not just for Ch...
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Nightmare Before Christmas
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 It is what it says on the front ..., 2008-11-05
A well made, excellent quality American T-shirt with Jack Skellington's face on the front. It certainly made people look twice at my chest when I wore it during the summer. I loved the movie when I first saw it on TV, purchased the DVD and now I can definitely say I have the T-shirt too. Love it.
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