Music CD - Various Artists: Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails, Part One

	Music CD: Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails, Part One Artist: Various Artists List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $7.13 Your Save: $ 4.85 ( 40% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks: 1. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo - Marks, Johnny 2. Winter Wonderland - Bernard, Felix 3. Christmas Trumpets/We Wish You a Very Merry Christmas - Anthony, Ray [1] 4. Christmas Is - Faith, Percy 5. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town/White Christmas - Coots, J. Fred 6. I'd Like You for Christmas - Troup, Bobby 7. Holiday on Skis - Holmes, Leroy 8. (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man with the Bag - Taylor, Irv 9. Jingle Bells/Jingle Bell Rock - Pierpont, J.S. 10. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Berlin, Irving 11. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus/Jingle Bells Bossa Nova - Connor, Tommie 12. Christmas Kisses - Kruger, J. 13. I'll Be Home for Christmas/Baby, It's Cold Outside - Kent, Walter 14. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Loesser, Frank 15. Cha-Cha All the Way - Pierpont, J. 16. The Christmas Song - Torme, Mel 17. The Nutcracker Suite - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr 18. Ring Those Christmas Bells - Fisher, M.
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724385255922 Label: Capitol Manufacturer: Capitol Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Capitol Release Date: 1996-09-03 Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Christmas Cocktails Comment: It is what exactly what it says it is. Nice jazz renditions of Christmas classics. Pour your self an eggnog and enjoy Customer Rating: Summary: Ultra lounge Christmas Cocktails part 1 Christmas Cocktails Comment: This is such a hip Christmas disc! Every one who hears it loves it. It is one of our favorite holiday discs. Customer Rating: Summary: hot toddies to melt your snowcone Comment: Christmas Cocktails, part one gives you twenty-one awesome tracks to make you feel toasty warm all over this holiday season! The quality of the sound is excellent and anyone who likes lounge music is bound to want this album. There are several highlights of this album. The first track is Billy May's "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo." This tune's Latin beat uses the brass, percussion and perfect timing to make a great arrangement. Peggy Lee's "Winter Wonderland" is another track I really like; her excellent diction bolsters her performance. Moreover, listen for Ray Anthony's medley of "Christmas Trumpets/We Wish You A Very Merry Christmas;" this one's wonderful, too. The incomparable Julie London does a perfect job on "I'd Like You For Christmas;" her voice conveys all the romance a man could ever want from a woman. Of course, Kay Starr's excellent "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag" features Kay singing at her best; the big band style arrangement lacks nothing, either. Dean Martin croons his way through "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm;" and Jackie Gleason and Jack Marshall give us a great medley of "I'll Be Home For Christmas/Baby, It's Cold Outside." Now THIS is mood music! Nancy Wilson performs a charming, sensitive rendition of the classic "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?;" and the immortal Nat King Cole performs "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)." There are three bonus tracks. I especially liked the one that features several different artists encouraging people to contribute to "Toys For Tots;" and Billy May's eclectic version of "Jingle Bells" is a cute way for Capitol Records to wish us all a Merry Christmas. The liner notes feature an essay by R. J. Smith; and we get two drink recipes--including one of the famous Hot Toddy. The artwork is excellent. In short, if you like lounge music--and especially pop Christmastime music from the 1950s and 1960s--you have got to get this album. It's worth every penny you'll spend on it. Customer Rating: Summary: I LOVE THE COLLECTION BUT (AND IT'S A BIG BUT) Comment: Am I the only one who can't seem to download the music into iTunes? My computer won't even acknowledge the existence of the CD. Grrrrrr - that's not the true Christmas spirit... (or IS it?) Customer Rating: Summary: LOVE ULTRA LOUNGE! Have most all of them now Comment: Nothing can be finer that Ultra Lounge - never a bad thing to say. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: A perfect martini-and-mistletoe combo, Christmas Cocktails will gaily seduce you with its bevy of nostalgic and occasionally campy holiday fare. Vocal vixens Peggy Lee, Julie London (her "I'd Like You for Christmas" will melt the ice cubes in your fridge), Kay Starr, and Nancy Wilson join forces with perennial crooners such as Lou Rawls, Dean Martin, and the immortal Nat "King" Cole, along with a handful of instrumental big-band numbers and odd, at times cheese-ball-shaped jazz organ pieces from Jimmy McGriff and the flammable Eddie Dundstedter, among others. But the essential item that makes plunking down your pelts for this very chi-chi set is none other than Billy May's lovably kitschy workout called "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo." It's a scream. The package comes complete with its own cocktail minimanual and the recipes for Hot Toddys and Hot Tom and Jerrys. Garishly retro and naughtily nostalgic, this kind of slinky Christmas gift should probably be illegal in many prudish states. --Martin Keller