{"id":16045,"date":"2016-12-08T06:57:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16045"},"modified":"2016-12-08T06:57:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:57:31","slug":"christmas-album-review-white-christmas-by-jackie-gleason-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/christmas-album-review-white-christmas-by-jackie-gleason-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Album Review: <i>White Christmas<\/i> by Jackie Gleason (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000VMC528\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000VMC528&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/whitechristmasgleason.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a>If you like the mellow orchestral mood music sound of Jackie Gleason presents albums, you will love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000VMC528\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000VMC528&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">this album<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a welcome departure from the normal Christmas record orchestration, with the reliance on traditional choir, organ, and bells\/chimes.  These are swanky orchestrations for a holiday get-together or a nice bit of background music for baking.  No snow required!<\/p>\n<p>The track list includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White Christmas<\/li>\n<li>Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow \t<\/li>\n<li>Jingle Bells \t<\/li>\n<li>Blue Christmas \t<\/li>\n<li>The Christmas Song \t<\/li>\n<li>Winter Wonderland \t<\/li>\n<li>Santa Claus Is Coming To Town<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll Be Home For Christmas \t<\/li>\n<li>Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas \t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not my favorite Christmas album, and it&#8217;s not my favorite Jackie Gleason presents disc (that would be <em>Music, Martini, and Memories<\/em> or <em>The Torch with the Blue Flame<\/em>), but it&#8217;s an excellent addition to the rotation at Nogglestead.  I&#8217;m glad I picked it up this year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Album mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B000VMC528&#038;asins=B000VMC528&#038;linkId=0c637d4c015219efa3dff5591e6c72a3&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like the mellow orchestral mood music sound of Jackie Gleason presents albums, you will love this album. It&#8217;s a welcome departure from the normal Christmas record orchestration, with the reliance on traditional choir, organ, and bells\/chimes. These are swanky orchestrations for a holiday get-together or a nice bit of background music for baking. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-albums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16047,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045\/revisions\/16047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}