This Christmas (I'd Rather Have Love)

Teddy Pendergrass | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 1, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: SonyBMG Special Markets
• ASIN: B00005NF3Q
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,341 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Joy to the World

2. The Little Drummer Boy

3. Christmas and You

4. The Christmas Song

5. Having a Christmas Party

6. I Won't Have Christmas

7. We Three Kings

8. Oh Holy Night

9. Happy Kwanzaa

10. This Christmas (I'd Rather Have Love)

11. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Teddy Pendergrass's distinctive husky voice and soul-man persona turn Christmas standards and inspired originals throughout This Christmas (I'd Rather Have Love) into a lovable Tedfest. While many similar records and their singers tend to overproduce and oversing holiday work, Pendergrass and company keep the schlocky string arrangements and excessive emoting to a minimum. They've also cranked out great holiday tunes in "Having a Christmas Party" and "Happy Kwanzaa," and devised tasty new versions of "Joy to the World" and "We Three Kings." The former gets a lilting funk treatment while the latter works as a jazzy, bluesy ballad. In his most surprising choice of covers, Pendergrass even reinvents John and Yoko's "Happy Xmas" as a romantic plaint and plea for racial harmony. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This music IS the Christmas Spirit, December 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: This Christmas (I'd Rather Have Love) (Audio CD)

This music really got me and kept me in the Christmas spirit and I am still listening to it. He is such a genius and a gift to the world. The traditional Christmas songs sound better here than anywhere else I have heard them. I wanted to buy this CD for everyone I know.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A nice Surprise., November 4, 2006

By 

Hudson G TANNIS "DR.GROOVE" (LAURELTON, NEW YORK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Christmas (I'd Rather Have Love) (Audio CD)

This contempory christmas cd from Teddy may surprise you when you listen.The quality is very high and captures the christmas spirit in a very warm and honest way.Add this cd to your holliday collection you will not be disappointed.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Christmas CD is angelic and warming., October 7, 1998

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Carrie Postell ([e-mail]) (Jacksonville, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Christmas (I'd Rather Have Love) (Audio CD)

This cd is comprised of traditional Christmas songs and contemporary ones. Teddy the musical genius. I'm in the spirit of Christmas already!!