The Best of B.B. King: Christmas Collection: 20th Century Masters [Original recording remastered]

B.B. King | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B0000C23DZ
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,920 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #70 in Music > Blues > Regional Blues > Memphis Blues

Track Listings

1. Please Come Home For Christmas

2. Lonesome Christmas

3. Back Door Santa

4. Christmas In Heaven

5. I'll Be Home For Christmas

6. To Someone That I Love

7. Christmas Celebration

8. Merry Christmas Baby

9. Christmas Love

10. Blue Decorations

11. Christmas Comes But Once A Year

12. Bringing In A Brand New Year

13. Auld Lang Syne

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best, November 23, 2003

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Patrick Madigan (Mesa, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of B.B. King: Christmas Collection: 20th Century Masters (Audio CD)

This is my favorite Christmas CD, hands down. I'm a little biased, as I've been a BB King fan for years, but I was blown away by the production quality of this album. I expected something more along the lines of Andy Williams, but this is one hot blues CD. I would rate this right up there with Blues on the Bayou, which in my opinion is BB's all-time best (I prefer his later albums).

I don't know why they reissued this CD under the 20th Century Masters label, only two years after the first CD was released. It appears to be the same album, except that they apparently substituted Merry Christmas Baby for What a Wonderful World. But if you love the blues, then you will want this in your Christmas CD collection. My favorite tune turned out to be Merry Christmas Baby, where BB demonstrates that he's still got the pipes, and Lucille can still sing, too.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dreadful and repetitive, December 18, 2009

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B. F. (Upstate NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Best of B.B. King: Christmas Collection: 20th Century Masters (Audio CD)

I was looking forward to this cd, but was disappointed. The rhythm section is deadly in a metronomic way. Almost every song begins and sounds the same. I think his style of playing does not lend itself to Christmas music, especially with such a lame, overproduced back-up.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic BB, March 10, 2011

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Joe from Illinois - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Best of B.B. King: Christmas Collection: 20th Century Masters (Audio CD)

Tired of the Christmas classics.....get a blues version. Good sonics of many BB classics and his Christmas themed cuts. This DVD comes more than once a year.