Have yourself a FAB-ulous Little Christmas

The Fab Four | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Delta
• ASIN: B00006K0CJ
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,279 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

2. Silent Night

3. The Christmas Song

4. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

5. The Little Drummer Boy

6. Dear Santa

7. What Child Is This?

8. Blue Christmas

9. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

10. Jingle Bells

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly FAB-ulous!, December 14, 2003

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S. Anderson "fab4mom" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Have yourself a FAB-ulous Little Christmas (Audio CD)

This is a great CD! We purchased it last year along with "Christmas With The Fab Four - The Ultimate Tribute" and we enjoy them both VERY much. When the intro to "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" begins, you'll swear they're going to play "When I'm 64." You'll find yourself laughing (in spite of yourself). The recreations of the Beatles' voices and instrumentals are uncanny. It's incredibly clever that they use Beatles tunes to arrange the Christmas standards. How they found songs that would weave together so well is amazing! Personally, I think "What Child Is This" should be played this way all the time! Make some hot cocoa and put this CD on while decorating the tree, and enjoy! (Then follow it up with the HELP! DVD, it has snow in it too!)

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun Xmas Rock and Roll Novelty, November 21, 2004

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Danno (NY, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Have yourself a FAB-ulous Little Christmas (Audio CD)

This bargain-priced CD contains half the material from the Fab Four's previous holiday-themed collection. All the songs on the CD combine traditional holiday songs with Beatles references, as you would expect from a Beatles cover band.

The results are pretty good; I particularly enjoyed the Norwegian Wood stylings of "Silent Night" and the McCartneyesque "The Christmas Song." On other songs, the combination is a bit strained, and "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree" is seriously damaged by the inclusion of synthesised horns rather than a real horn ensemble.

Still, the price is right, and if you're already inclined to purchase Xmas CDs you will definitely get a kick out of this one.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clever and enjoyable Beatlish settings of Christmas songs, December 14, 2002

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James Jones (Clive, IA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Have yourself a FAB-ulous Little Christmas (Audio CD)

I am glad I noticed this delightful little CD while bored out of my skull in line at 7:20 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving--had I not, I'd have missed some wonderful settings of Christmas standards (plus a neat original song).

Herein a Beatles tribute band does these standards in the style of various Beatles songs. The musicianship is impeccable, and the skill, taste, and respect with which this improbable merging occurs has my admiration. The original song, "Dear Santa," is well done, faithful to the style, and got not only a smile from me, but a laugh at its gentle ribbing of "Happy Christmas/War is Over" in the line "Dear Santa/Well, I've heard it all before/From 'Jingle Bells' to 'No more war'".

If you're a Beatles fan, or even if you were just conscious during the 60s and early 70s, you'll recognize the Beatles tunes being paraphrased here, and I think you'll enjoy the disc as much as I do. (Say, about that cover artwork...Santa's barefoot on Abbey Road. Is this the start of a "Santa is dead" rumor?)