Customer Reviews

Christmas Favorites

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On the plus side, the children like the songs sung by kids, which is why I bought, but this children singing is not the best.

It's a hodge podge of voices and styles. I like the songs that have a gospel feel; however, all the different voices all over the place, and the ad libbed words, and the arrangement, and the tempo, and just everything is a big disappointment.

It's just more of the crappy music one hears all over the place at Christmas time in the stores, which makes one weary of it all.

Nothing beautiful here, or even good for your children's musical ear.

They really spoil the 12 days of xmas. There are two silly adult voices, and two small unintelligible children whose singing lacks any musical quality.

Forget this one.

This is one of the best Christmas CD's I've heard in a long time. It's varied and that's why I like it. My daughter also likes it because it has children singing and she can relate better to that than some of the orchestrated Christmas CD's with a Tenor singing O Holy Night. Some of the voices on this CD are absolutely beautiful especially "Angels we have Heard on High". "Jingle Bells" and "Rudolph" are just plain fun. I really enjoy this CD and like it better than most anything else out there. I will probably keep it for a long time.

This album not only has many of the old favorites we all love around the holidays, but some new ones that I grew to love just as much. Although the sound quality is not the best, the catalogue of hits makes up for it. My personal favorite is Up On the Housetop, which is done very well on this album. This is one of my all-time favorite christmas collections and despite the not so great quality I would recomend it to anyone!

There are a variety of singing styles on this recording. Some are fast paced and others are slow and mellow. Somehow it doesn't flow well, the collection seems jumbled and awkward.

"Jingle Bells" opens with a chorus sung by a toddler then goes into a chorus of children singing; it has a very fast tempo and is nerve-wracking. Rudolph the Reindeer is the "revised" version where there are additional lyrics such as "all of the other reindeers used to laugh and call you names--like silly head", etc. Adults sing some songs in a serious manner, some are young children (with not-superior singing voices) singing solo, and others are sung by choruses of children. Some songs have dialogue by Santa and children mingled inside of each song in between verses. Some songs are fast paced and almost nerve-wracking while others are slow, quiet and purely classical in nature.

I find that my children prefer the songs that are a fast tempo that are sung by the children while I like the quiet more classical songs sung by adults. The kids ask me to skip over the songs I enjoy and to repeat songs such as "Jingle Bells" a million times. I am still looking for a recording of popular songs such as "Rudolph" and "Jingle Bells" which are sung by adults and are just "normal" (vs. rock stars' personally stylized versions, country versions, zydego versions, etc.).

My kids and I love this cd. We bought it at Bronner's Christmas Wonderland and had a wonderful time the whole way home listening to it. This cd gives me great joy. My kids love singing along to "I saw 3 ships" and "The Little Drummer Boy"(which is a beautiful rendition of an old favorite).
I cant wait until christmas time to listen to it again. Is it almost time yet?!!!

I downloaded these songs and the song titles did not even match the songs. The childrens songs were cute but the adult voices which joined in ruined the few decent songs on the album. Definately not an album you would listen to more than once and some songs you will skip over within the first verse!

And very pleasant for parents to also listen to. I found myself listening to it even without my son...

A big disappointment. I can only reiterate the other negative review. The song "Mary Did You Know" I would not want to hear more than once in my lifetime. Distasteful.--though, once again, the kids like it. I tell them I don't and we can't hear it. I find it unbearable.