That restricted time of holiday music is upon us. As Cammie cautioned with her Christmas compilation last year please play responsibly.
With this caution I bought two wonderful holiday music collections at Costco. One of them was the Christmas with the Rat Pack. The other is Noel by Josh Groban.
Both of these collections are worth it.They represent different genres. The Josh Groban is more religious and classic and the Rat Pack Christmas is more pop.
One of Sue's criteria with holiday music is that it has to have actual singing on it. She is never one for the instrumental collections. Over the years this was difficult as Kenny G and other seemed to sneak on the collections. There is also some deep prejudice against overtly country Christmas pieces. Twang and Christmas just don't mix.. this holds true for the juxtaposition of Christmas music and Hawaian music.
The orchestration is considerably dated on the rat pack collection. There is nothing however as smaltzy as the rat pack in their hey day. This collection represents the best of that era.
Joah's Noel is very classic. And yes fans of my previous Christmas collections, there is an Ave Maria on it. Soem European carols are on this collection too.
Have a great day.. and play your holiday music responsibly.. Pat
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I bought the Josh Groban because I absolutely love his voice. I think this Ave Maria is sooooooo suave! I love Christmas music (no breaking news there) and especially love Christmas music that is sung, so I can sing along at the top of my voice in the car! :::grin::: There is this Christmas song called something like "Christmas in San Francisco" that I love, but don't know who sings it...
Anybody know?
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