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<\/a>I got this album<\/a> a couple of years ago, and I play it a couple of times a week throughout the season. It’s a serviceable collection of known favorites and a song that appears sparsely on Christmas albums (“Mistletoe and Holly”). It’s good background music, but it’s not ideal mood<\/em> music because Sinatra’s more of a technical perfectionist of a singer rather than a warm singer who inhabits the songs. That is, when you hear these songs, you imagine being in a room where Sinatra is singing the songs on stage instead of someone who’s singing the songs with you.<\/p>\nThe track list includes:<\/p>\n
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- Jingle Bells<\/li>\n
- The Christmas Song<\/li>\n
- Mistletoe And Holly<\/li>\n
- I’ll Be Home For Christmas<\/li>\n
- The Christmas Waltz<\/li>\n
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas<\/li>\n
- The First Noel<\/li>\n
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing<\/li>\n
- O Little Town Of Bethlehem<\/li>\n
- Adeste Fideles<\/li>\n
- It Came Upon A Midnight Clear<\/li>\n
- Silent Night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
According to Discogs<\/a>, this is one of the more expensive Christmas albums I’ve reviewed so far. And I only spent a buck on it at a book sale if I remember correctly.<\/p>\n
So it’s worth a couple of spins every year in fairly heavy rotation at Nogglestead, but mostly it’s because of the Sinatra cool factor than the music itself.<\/p>\n
Speaking of the Rat Pack, I’ve already reviewed the The Dean Martin Christmas Album<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n
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