Best Christmas Ever

Va-Best Christmas Ever | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B000000WCC
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,623 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin

2. Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt

3. The Twelve Days of Christmas - Harry Belafonte

4. Winter Wonderland - Doris Day

5. I Wanna Spend Christmas with You - Lowell Fulsom

6. I'll Be Home for Christmas - Hadda Brooks

7. Merry Christmas, Baby - Charles Brown

8. The Christmas Song - Ella Fitzgerald

9. O Holy Night - Nat King Cole

10. Silent Night Story [#] - Solomon Burke

11. O Little Town of Bethlehem - Aaron Neville

12. White Christmas - Hadda Brooks

13. I Want You with Me at Christmas - Jesse Belvin

14. Blue Christmas - Pete Fountain

15. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Lena Horne

16. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Louis Armstrong

17. Christmas Celebration - B.B. King

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best Xmas compilation out there..., November 15, 2000

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Brian Moore (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Christmas Ever (Audio CD)

Excellent collection of older and newer holiday recordings from artists of generally unimpechable quality. You won't run into any Amy Grant or Kenny G or some Nashville Hat du jour here, leaving your holiday mood blisfully unsullied. As it should be. Offerings from Solomon Burke and Nat King Cole stand out (the former gives an impassioned treatment to "Silent Night" which is among the best I've heard), and the version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is the best version available. Ultimately, if you want a good Christmas record, you need this.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Familiar songs and artists in new holiday combinations, December 14, 2003

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Christmas Ever (Audio CD)

"The Best Christmas Ever" is an interesting collection of holiday songs because for the most part you will recognize the songs and remember the artists, but probably not in these combinations. The exception that proves the rule would be the first track, Dean Martin's "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" That is a recognizable classic holiday song, but the rest are pretty unfamiliar. That being said, here are the new treats for your holiday listening pleasure: Earth Kitt singing "Santa Baby" (just saying that should have you anticipating the sultry singing of this song), Aaron Neville's "O Little Town of Bethlehem," Ella Fitzgerald's "The Christmas Song," Nat King Cole's "O Holy Night," and "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" sung by Lena Horne. I have never thought of Louie Armstrong's "Baby, It's Cold Outside" as being a holiday song, but you have to be open to the experience when it is Satchmo. The only problem is that a lot of the rest is not up to this standard, so you end up with a mixed bag: when you have those big names on a CD it is just strange to throw in Hadda Brooks twice. You will definitely find at least a half-dozen tracks well worth the having, but you are also going to want to be programming your CD player to omit some of the songs you just do not need to live again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent compilation!!, December 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Christmas Ever (Audio CD)

If I were going to play one CD at a Christmas party, this would be it... a first rate collection, without a single song that falls short. Definitely a+!!