The Ultimate Christmas Album, Vol. 3 - WOGL 98.1 Philadelphia

Va-Wogl Oldies 98 Philadelphia

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 1996)
• Original Release Date: October 8, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00000089M
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #66,716 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Christmas Song - Nat King Cole

2. All Alone on Christmas - Darlene Love

3. I'll Be Home for Christmas - Larry Chance

4. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Bobby Vinton

5. Jingle Bells - Singing Dogs

6. Twinkle Twinkle Little Me - The Supremes

7. Winter Wonderland - Johnny Mathis, Johnny Mathis

8. Sleigh Ride - The Ventures

9. (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays - Perry Como

10. Christmas Vacation - Mavis Staples

11. Bell That Couldn't Jingle - Burt Bacharach

12. Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano

13. O Holy Night - Lou Christie,

14. White Christmas - Bing Crosby

15. It's Christmas Everywhere - Paul Anka

16. Chrissy the Christmas Mouse - Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

17. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Dion

18. Happy Holiday - Andy Williams

19. Amen - The Impressions

20. We Need a Little Christmas - Percy Faith

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Third is a six part essential series of Holiday Favorites, October 12, 2004

By	James E. Bagley "Jim Bagley" (Sanatoga, PA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This is the third 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.

The first volume offers the most "classics" but this volume includes such essentials as Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song," Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," "Happy Holiday" by Andy Williams, "Winter Wonderland" by Johnny Mathis, and "Home For The Holidays" by Perry Como.

Each volume also gives you a few holiday favorites from the cream of '60s Motown (in this volume it's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Me" by the Supremes) and '70s pop/soul (here it is "Feliz Navidad" by Jose Feliciano). You also get recent soundtrack efforts by Darlene Love ("All Alone On Christmas" from Home Alone 2") and Mavis Staples (theme from "Christmas Vacation") that give this set a slightly more modern slant than the first two volumes.

Perhaps the most unique feature of this series is the inclusion of new holiday recordings by your favorite Doo Wop artists that you won't find anywhere else. On this volume, Earl Chance of the Earls contributes "I'll Be Home For Christmas" and "All I Want For Christmas Is You" while Lou Christie delivers a heavenly version of "O Holy Night" that features backing by the Pittsburgh Boys Choir.

While I don't really care for the inclusion of silly songs like "Chrissy The Christmas Mouse" by Debbie Reynolds & Donald O'Connor or "Jingle Bells" by the Singing Dogs, I am sure they have their supporters. Novelty tunes undoubtably hold a significant spot in the world of Christmas music.

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.

3.0 out of 5 stars Christmas vacation!, January 21, 2009

By	S. Jefferson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased this CD because of the Christmas vacation song by Mavis Staples. This is the theme song to my favorite christmas movie with the same title with Chevy Chase. The rest of the album is O.K....wish the CD case had not arrived cracked...I had to pry out the CD and the case is ruined. The CD, though, played Christmas vacation perfectly and I was able to transfer to my IPOD for my christmas party mix!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It Has The "Christmas Vacation" Theme Song, January 15, 2007

By	W. Wood (Fallbrook, CA) - See all my reviews

I bought this album only because it has the theme song from the movie, "Christmas Vacation". The only other album I've found this song on is the original soundtrack, which is long out of print. The only reason I give it only three stars is because I don't care for half the other Christmas songs. That's typical for any album, though. I'm very happy with my purchase.