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Christmas Greetings

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Over the years, Kenny Rogers has become well known for his Christmas albums as well as his country and pop albums.

His album titled "Christmas" was his first holiday release. With Kenny's recent comeback, and return to the top of the charts, Capitol Records decided to cash in on reissues of classic Rogers albums. "Christmas" was reissued as "Christmas Greetings" for Christmas 2000. It was also digitally remastered for the first time on CD ("Christmas" was originally issued on CD in 1987 on EMI America Records).

The album is a great introduction to Christmas Kenny Rogers style. It features a variety of Christmas songs. From the festive, holiday side of Christmas ("White Christmas," "My Favorite Things,") to the religious side of Christmas ("O Holy Night," "Sweet Little Jesus Boy.")

But that's not all. Kenny took the time to find some great original Christmas songs. "Kentucky Homemade Christmas" will pull at your heart and bring a tear to your eye. "Christmas Everyday" reminds us all of the spirit of Christmas. Several other new songs are equally excellent.

"Christmas Greetings" presents a well-rounded feeling of the season. The cover art was also updated to look very modern. Although the album was originally released in 1981, it still sounds fresh. Plus, it gives us another chance to remember all the Christmas seasons we have spent with Kenny Rogers. Pick this one up. Merry Christmas!!

I am proud to say this is a Kenny Rogers C.D. I have in my collection! Two of my favorites...Christmas in America and Christmas Everyday! The latter is something I personally strive to live for every day of the year! If you love the sounds of the season then I think you should have this in your home! Wonderful to listen to!!

Kenny has recorded five Christmas albums - four solo and one with Dolly - but this was the first one he did. It includes an excellent mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar.

The most familiar songs here are White Christmas (the Bing Crosby classic), When a child is born (the song that gave Johnny Mathis his only UK number one hit), O holy night (one of the most popular carols) and My favorite things (originally sung by Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music).

Before you get to them, there are some great songs, of which Carol of the bells is a cover but the others might all be originals. Kenny must like Sweet little Jesus boy a lot - he re-recorded it for the Gift, one of his other Christmas albums, but I particularly like Kentucky homemade Christmas (about a poor family determined to have as good a time as they can) and Kids (about the people who enjoy Christmas most).

This was a great start to Kenny's career as a singer of Christmas music.

Back in the day I had this on cassette tape. If this gives you any indication of how much I love this album, I wore out 2 cassette tapes! Now remember, this is a Christmas compilation, so only gets played during the season. I HIGHLY recommend it.

Excellent Christmas CD,a little mix of everything, a few of the classic Christmas songs and a few of your Kenny Rogers type Christmas songs. I really enjoyed this CD.Thanks

It's simple. This IS Kenny Rogers best Christmas Album. If you like Kenny Rogers, you'll love it, if you don't, nothing I say will make a difference.

This is the CD version of the original cassette. If you enjoy Kenny Roger's great voice, you'll enjoy the mix of original country and traditional Christmas carols performed.

Kenny Rogers captures the spirit of Christmas wonderfully in this alblum. My favorite from this alblum is "Kids". It is about how Christmas brings out the kid in all of us.

Heartfelt songs. Different from standard Christmas carols. A must have for holiday listening.

This item was exactly what I wanted and expected. The entire transaction was easy and the CD was more than reasonably priced.
Hope to enjoy it for many Christmases to come!