I love to collect Christmas music. If you've heard it twenty years ago on the radio, I've probably got it. I mean hundreds of hours of Christmas music clogging up my computer, but heck, what are hard drives for? So I'm well used to being bamboozled by inadequate descriptions. Oh, I've usually heard and know the track, but very often the quality, once I've bought the actual album, just isn't quite what I'd like. Also, for every good track there are usually two or three tracks that are a waste. And sometimes they are some strange edition that wasn't what I thought they were.
Well, this is mostly "cherce", as Spencer Tracy would say! So many excellent songs here - not only the classic Perry Como, Gene Autry, Elvis Presley stuff, but Sinatra, Ray Conniff; all the old names, plus some great vintage surprises from folks like the McGuire Sisters and Peggy Lee. Reminds me very much of the classic Time-Life Collection that was so good, along with some less heard (at least today) standards. Perhaps it's a little heavy on Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole, if such a thing is possible.
The quality seems quite good, also. I played some of the tracks next to some of my better recordings and I was happy with it. By the way, the Bing Crosby "White Christmas" isn't the traditional one you usually hear. I'm pretty sure it is the version from the movie "White Christmas".
Now if you are the kind of listener that is unhappy with music that wasn't recorded in the past forty years, this isn't your collection. But if the great old vocalists make you sigh and say, "Now that's Music!", or if you never get tired of the Christmas music that you heard when you were younger, this probably will float your boat, especially for the price. And Merry Christmas!