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"Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas album is a secular holiday delight sure to please every listener, even atheists and agnostics. Originally released in 1960, the sound here is warm and inviting as a Yule log burning in the fireplace ... Perfect QRP pressing too." — Music = 9/11; Sound = 9/11 — Michael Fremer, AnalogPlanet.com. To read Fremer's full review, click
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A holiday album from the jazz legend! Have a swinging Christmas and a jazzy new year with this joyous 1960 Ella LP in your collection. She sings (and swings) "Jingle Bells," "Sleigh Ride," "Winter Wonderland," and more! She puts her singular stamp on everything from a sultry vamp like "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" to the sweet and cozy "The Christmas Song." Even potentially shopworn standards like "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" sound fresher when they're coming from Ella Fitzgerald.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Christmas: Jazz · 1960
Jingle Bells
1
2:22
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
2
2:18
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
3
2:55
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
4
3:32
Sleigh Ride
5
2:55
The Christmas Song
6
3:00
Good Morning Blues
7
3:15
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
8
2:42
Winter Wonderland
9
2:15
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
10
2:51
Frosty The Snowman
11
2:11
White Christmas
12
3:01
The Secret of Christmas
13
2:45
Medley: We Three Kings of Orient Are / O Little Town of Bethlehem
14
3:35
Christmas Island
15
2:17
The Christmas Song (Alternate Take)
16
3:40
White Christmas (Alternate Take)
17
3:44
Frosty The Snowman (Alternate Take)
18
2:11
October 1, 1960
18 Songs, 51 minutes
A Verve Records Release; ℗ 2002 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas is a charming, warmly humorous -- and yes, swinging -- set of classic Christmas tunes. The program is familiar, from bouncy singalongs like "Jingle Bells" to slinky ballads like a downright sexy "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," but Fitzgerald treats each song with exactly as much respect as it deserves. And so Frank Loesser's "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve" is wistfully romantic and Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne's "Let It Snow" is kittenishly enticing. As always, Norman Granz's production avoids the schlock that drowns some holiday sets. This is as good as jazz Christmas albums get.