Santa's Greatest Hits

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 12, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B0000793VJ
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #540,809 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra

2. Zat You Santa Claus - Louis Armstrong

3. Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt

4. What Will Santa Claus Say - Louis Prima & His Orchestra

5. A Rootin’ Tootin’ Santa Claus - Tex Beneke w/ The Miller Orchestra

6. Saving My Love For Santa - Joan Ryan

7. Ol’ Santa Claus - Dinah Washington

8. Santa Claus, Santa Claus - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

9. Boogie Woogie Santa Claus - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra

10. I’m Sending A Letter To Santa Claus - Phyllis Robbins

11. Ride On Santa Ride On - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra w/ June Christy

12. I Want To See Santa Claus (Good Mornin’ Blues) - Count Basie & His Orchestra

13. The Christmas Song - Peggy Lee

14. The Night Before Christmas - Jo Stafford

15. Life Is Too Short Not to Believe In Santa Claus - Rod McKuen & Bob Gentry

16. Santa’s Christmas Band - Four Friends feat. Lil’ Dwight

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wish I'd purchased the 99 cent used version, December 18, 2009

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J. C Clark "eanna" (Overland Park, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Santa's Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

I buy one Christmas CD every year. This was my 2009 purchase, largely because of the glowing review here. Well, that guy is wacky. This is a snoozer, starting with Rod McKuen (yes, that famous Christmas crooner) and lumbering mostly downhill after that.

Perfunctory is the word that comes to mind. There are certain artists whose songs are hard to imagine performed by anyone else, and therefore if you don't know the original, you don't know the song, but these tunes are unknown to me because, well, frankly, they stink. Tex (whom I like enormously) on Rootin' Tootin' Santa, and other famous performers on justifiably unfamous "hits", are just dreadful. After seeing the huge sums Gene Autry made from his novelty songs, everyone tried to write the next Rudolph. There's a reason none of these made it to TV specials. A good reason.

And I realize that the licensing on such a CD makes things like Brave Combo's "Must Be Santa" (which is, in my opinion, the truly greatest hit of/by/with Santa) a challenge, but even the Mitch Miller version should have been available for a "song".

So, if you don't have Eartha Kitt doing "Santa Baby" (a performance and lyric I've always found uncomfortable) you can get it here cheap. But the rest of this CD is mostly quite forgettable.

5.0 out of 5 stars QUITE THE BOPPIN' WINTER WONDERLAND, December 19, 2002

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Alan W. Petrucelli (THE ENTERTAINMENT REPORT (ALAN W. PETRUCELLI)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Santa's Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Thank goodness we were nice and not naughty, or Santa. baby may not have released this CD that's as historical as it is hysterical. The stellar tracks are many --- Dinah Washington's "Ol' Santa Claus," Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five's "Santa Claus, Santa Claus," Tex Beneke with the Miller Orchestra's "Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus" and Louis Armstrong's "Zat You Santa Claus." Makes us want to be big and fat and jolly ... if just for one night a year.