WCBS-FM 101.1 - The Ultimate Christmas Album

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B0000008AJ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,167 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee

2. Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms

3. What Christmas Means To Me - Stevie Wonder

4. You're My Christmas Present - Jimmy Beaumont & The Skyliners

5. White Christmas - The Drifters

6. Merry Merry Christmas Baby - Margo Sylvia & The Tune Weavers

7. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Jimmy Boyd

8. Baby's First Christmas - Connie Francis

9. Silver Bells - Diana Ross & The Supremes

10. It's Christmas Once Again - Frankie Lymon

11. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry

12. Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry

13. Please Come Home For Christmas - Dion

14. The Chipmunk Song ( Christmas Don't Be Late ) - Alvin & the Chipmunks

15. This Time Of The Year - Brook Benton

16. Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without The One You Love) - The O'Jays

17. The Little Drummer Boy - Harry Simeone Chorale

18. I'll Be Home For Christmas - Fats Domino

19. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - The Four Seasons

20. This Christmas - Donny Hathaway

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

This is the first of six volumes. All offer some great holiday recordings but none are perfect. Depending on your musical tastes, you can select quite a few tracks from each volume to put together a first-rate mix tape or CD. This first volume offers the most "classsics" with Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree," Bobby Helms' ""Jingle Bell Rock," Gene Autry's "Rudolph," and the Harry Simeone Chorale's "Little Drummer Boy" among the offerings. Each volume also gives you a few holiday favorites from the cream of '60s Motown (in this volume it's Stevie Wonder's "What Christmas Means to Me" and "Silver Bells" by the Supremes) and '70s soul (here it is Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and The O'Jays "Christmas Ain't Christmas Without The One You Love"). What is unique to this series is the new holiday songs by your favorite Doo Wop artists that you won't find anywhere else. On volume one, both "You're My Christmas Present" by the Skyliners and "Christmas Serenade" by Johnny Maestro hold their own with the standards. If you don't have any of these collections and are on a limited budget, I suggest buying them in numerical order (One first, Six last) until you get them all. Nearly every holiday recording of note - plus many unknown gems - are found on these discs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great series of holiday tunes, December 19, 2001

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James E. Bagley "Jim Bagley" (Sanatoga, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This is the first of six volumes. All offer some great holiday recordings but none are perfect. Depending on your musical tastes, you can select quite a few tracks from each volume to put together a first-rate mix tape or CD.

This first volume offers the most "classsics" with Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree," Bobby Helms' ""Jingle Bell Rock," Gene Autry's "Rudolph," and the Harry Simeone Chorale's "Little Drummer Boy" among the offerings. Each volume also gives you a few holiday favorites from the cream of '60s Motown (in this volume it's Stevie Wonder's "What Christmas Means to Me" and "Silver Bells" by the Supremes) and '70s soul (here it is Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and The O'Jays "Christmas Ain't Christmas Without The One You Love").

What is unique to this series is the new holiday songs by your favorite Doo Wop artists that you won't find anywhere else. On volume one, both "You're My Christmas Present" by the Skyliners and "Christmas Serenade" by Johnny Maestro hold their own with the standards.

If you don't have any of these collections and are on a limited budget, I suggest buying them in numerical order (One first, Six last) until you get them all. Nearly every holiday recording of note - plus many unknown gems - are found on these discs.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great x-mas album from New Yorks oldie station, December 23, 1998

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This review is from: WCBS-FM 101.1 - The Ultimate Christmas Album (Audio CD)

I can not say enough about this "GREAT" album. I own vol 1 and vol 2

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the beginning of a great christmas collection, December 19, 2001

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F. Beck (new jersey) - See all my reviews
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I'm one of these people who LOVES christmas music. It really
gets me in the spirit. Over the years I probably have close to
30 Christmas CDs and this particular collection ranks right
at the top, as far as collections go. As you would suspect, Volume one has many of the heavy hitter Christmas songs from the
rock n roll era including rockin around the tree, jingle bell rock, what christmas means to me, the original little drummer boy
as well as two more recent classics: you're my christmas present
and christmas serenade. The "gimmick" to all these albums is that
they have 25 songs for the 25th which gives you about an hour or
so of music. Definitely worth your time, I like them all.