Christmas Cocktails 2

Ultra Lounge (series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 1997)
• Original Release Date: September 23, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002TLS
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,764 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #32 in Music > Pop > Easy Listening > Lounge
  • #50 in Music > Miscellaneous > Holiday > Pop Vocal
  • #56 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Noels

Editorial Reviews

Songs Include : Al Caiola & Riz Ortolani / Jimmy McGriff - Sleigh Ride / Jingle Bells 6:15 / Lena Horne - Jingle All The Way 2:36 / Lou Rawls - Merry Christmas, Baby 2:34 / Julie London - Warm December 1:57 / Eddie Dunstedter - Let It Snow! / Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer 5:01 / June Christy - The Merriest 2:09 / Nat King Cole Trio - All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth 2:32 / Nancy Wilson - The Christmas Waltz 2:40 / Les Brown / Starlighters - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm / Jing-A-Ling 5:10 / Jimmy McGriff - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 6:39 / Dean Martin - Baby, It's Cold Outside 2:21 / George Shearing / Billy May - Snowfall / Snowfall Cha-Cha 4:27 / Wayne Newton - Jingle Bell Rock 2:12 / Ventures - Frosty The Snowman 2:02 / Bob Atcher & Dinning Sisters - Christmas Island 2:29 / Martin Denny - Exotic Night 2:18 / Peggy Lee - Happy Holiday 1:57 / Ferrante & Teicher / Les Baxter - Sleigh Ride / Santa Claus' Party 4:25 / Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians - Auld Lang Syne 2:09 / Stan Kenton - What Is A Santa Claus? 2:29

Customer Reviews

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Raise Your Holiday SPIRITS!, November 2, 2002

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Matt Sigl (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christmas Cocktails 2 (Audio CD)

Leave it to the geniuses at Ultra-Lounge to put together the Christmas Album you always wanted but could never find. This is Christams through an ironic lens. So cleary not "cool" that its ridiculousness makes it so. Very paradoxial. This is Christmas music devoid of any real sentinment but still shiny with a glossy venner of wholesomeness--underneath one can see (as with all lounge music) the seedy side of the 1950's. This IS Cocktail music after all. (Dean Martin ONLY sang Cocktail music, ask his liver!) Highlights of this edition include Mr. Martin's BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE, The delightful Bonus Track "What is a Santa Claus" and Lena Horne's spellbinding JINGLE ALL THE WAY. To hear her sing the word "Horse" with no less than six vowel sounds is worth the price of the album alone. As always the album and jacket art are first rate and the liner notes by RJ SMITH are amoung the best in album commentary EVER! Smith captures the period, the music, and the modern attraction to it in a stylish and comic essay. Once again the Ultra Lounge gives us everything we want from lounge music and more. So sip some spiked egg nog, light the yule log, and have a swinging holiday season.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let's toast a, November 17, 2003

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FredericWhite "FredericWhite" (Montreal,Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Christmas Cocktails 2 (Audio CD)

Both Vol.1 and Pt.2 of the ULTRA LOUNGE CHRISTMAS series consists of a great musical holiday soundtrack for child raised during the cocktail 1960s.
Upon listening to both CDs, your memories will transport you back in time to tinsel clustered trees drowned in multi-color lights & wasted uncles with a plastic baby jesus' lying under an artificial tree.

This collection of holiday CDs are the perfect tool for entertaining & injecting "kitchy" ambiance into your holiday festivities.
The sound is retro and currently very trendy.

It's fun listening to these long forgotten classics dusted off and delivered in with a "LOUNGE" packaging.

Both volumes should be added into your collection!

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yuletide rolicking nostalgia at its best!, January 7, 2002

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R. DelParto "Rose2" (Virginia Beach, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christmas Cocktails 2 (Audio CD)

I truly enjoyed listening to the second edition of Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails. The first part got me jumpin', but I couldn't get enough with the second. I have heard the original selections on various Capitol Records Christmas compilations, but to hear it in crystal clear digital remastered versions blew me away! I somewhat missed the cracks and jumps from the vinyl grooves, but it was refreshing to hear the clear sounds of Wayne Newton wail away with the track, "Jingle Bell Rock." Another track, "Warm December", as sung by Julie London, is perfect for slow dancing or a quiet moment in front of the fireplace.

If you like nostalgia and have an itching for the music your parents used to cha cha to, you'll surely enjoy this record. I just couldn't get enough of old Dino and a host of other artists. Let the organ swing and sway and enjoy this yuletide romp.