Once Upon a Christmas

Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bmg Special Product
• ASIN: B00008G7Q0
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,362 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #35 in Music > Miscellaneous > Holiday > Opera & Vocal
  • #42 in Music > Miscellaneous > Holiday > General Christmas
  • #46 in Music > Miscellaneous > Holiday > General AAS

Track Listings

1. I Believe in Santa Claus

2. Medley: Winter Wonderland/Sleigh Ride

3. With Bells On

4. Christmas Without You

5. White Christmas

6. A Christmas to Remember

7. Hard Candy Christmas

8. The Greatest Gift of All

9. Once Upon a Christmas

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My second favorite original Christmas album, February 8, 2004

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Once Upon a Christmas (Audio CD)

As originally released, this album had six duets and four solo tracks - two each by Kenny and Dolly. I note that the version currently available in America has just nine tracks (confirmed to me by an American friend who has seen it), the two excellent Kenny Rogers tracks (Silent night and The Christmas song) being replaced by Dolly's Hard candy Christmas (which, despite its title, is not a Christmas song). I checked my local store and the UK version still has the original track listing. Dolly's two solo offerings on the original album - White Christmas and a medley of Winter wonderland and Sleigh ride - are both excellent.

Good as the solo tracks are, it is the six duets that make this album stand out among my many wonderful Christmas albums. Dolly wrote five of the songs especially for the album and the other is also an original song. I believe in Santa Claus and With bells on are rollicking, up-tempo songs. Christmas without you is a reflective song about missing somebody. A Christmas to remember is another upbeat song. Once upon a Christmas is a stirring song about the birth of Jesus (and has since been covered by Selah on their Christmas album Rose of Bethlehem, with Dolly guesting on that track). The greatest gift of all (the only song among the duets that Dolly didn't write) is a lovely romantic ballad, which was covered a year later by Lee Greenwood for his excellent Christmas To Christmas album; other singers have understandably covered this song too.

This album is best with the two Kenny Rogers solo tracks, but is worth buying anyway because of the outstanding duets. I have bought many brilliant original Christmas albums; this one remained my favorite for more than twenty years after its release.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and Loveing, December 9, 2003

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"littleswead" (Springfield, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Once Upon a Christmas (Audio CD)

This album has been around for many years and I have thought it to be one of the best albums for the season since the first time I heard it,long ago. I think that Dolly and Kenny sing wonderfully together and should do more albums together. this is just realy a great album and I hope others enjoy it as much as I do.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST CHRISTMAS CD EVER MADE PERIOD...., August 20, 2007

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Min (Dover,PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Once Upon a Christmas (Audio CD)

This will always be my favorite christmas cd by far. I wish Kenny and Dolly would do another one. The songs are just so amazing, you won't regret buying this cd at all.