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Whistle Stopper - Ray Conniff - We Wish You A Merry Christmas (6 Medley songs)
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List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $7.06
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074640869228
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Great CD!
Comment: This is a great CD of traditional Christmas songs, mixed together in a wonderful way. I especially like the fact that they included Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep in one of the groups.
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Summary: I Love the Ray Conniff Christmas CD!
Comment: It just doesn't 'feel' like Christmas if we don't play this cd while we decorate our tree. A tradition that started more than 25 years ago when I was a kid is continuing with my own children and they love it! I love the 'classic' Christmas sound of the Ray Conniff singers as they sing some of my favorite Christmas songs.
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Summary: one of my favorite CD's
Comment: I really enjoy listening to this traditional Christmas music. This CD was exactly what I had hoped it would be.
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Summary: Classic Christmas Music
Comment: This album, along with The Sounds Of Christmas by Fred Waring, Andy Williams, and the other albums from the 60s and 70s, are the quintessential Christmas Music. When A Very Special Christmas and many of the modern Christmas CDs are collecting dust, these will still be played due to their timelessness and quality.
Not trying to be a hitmaking CD or getting radio airplay, these songs are meant to be enjoyed at night with cookies being baked or the tree being decorated.
I just hope my love of those CDs rubs off on my children and they enjoy listening to it as much as I.
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Summary: This spans generations
Comment: My dad had these kinds of records when I was a very small child. I also heard this type of music at my grandma's as a young child also and by the mid 1980s they were still playing this type of music around xmas time and this kind of music makes it really feel like xmas for me. This does not sound 'old" to me in anyway. Hearing kenny g or mariah carey or adam sandler or some hip hop artist during xmas makes me want to vomit. Why can't radio stations play this good quality music during the xmas season?
I guess Ray Coniff isn't politically correct enough to get played during the xmas season anymore because they still play other older xmas songs but they won't play Ray Coniff.
Ray Coniff really knew how to make some really melodic music which was great adult contemporary music. Just as they have retro disco and retro alternative and retro country music stations they need to have retro adult contemporary station on cable tv's music channels.
On this cd ,the voices of the singers seem too prominent and the background instruments and sounds seem like they were faded to make the voices sound louder. I hate when they mess with old recordings and do this type of thing. Usually on music cds they unfairly make the bass more prominent as if it were a soul or motown cd where bass is so important but in this case it is the voices.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Between 1957 and 1968, Ray Conniff had 28 albums in the American Top 40. He started out at Columbia Records as their home arranger, backing artists such as Rosemary Clooney, Johnny Mathis, and Johnnie Ray, with his orchestra and was eventually offered the chance to do his own record. We Wish You a Merry Christmas is packed with traditional holiday tunes that Conniff and his (25) Singers wove into a series of medleys. This album has a retro studio sound, which, upon listening, may conjure up images of Lawrence Welk singers strolling the stage, dressed in matching holiday garb. Sometimes melodramatic ("Ring Christmas Bells"), other times, bright and exuberant ("Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!"), it's good, clean fun for the whole family and a solid addition to any Christmas catalog. --Renata Sadunas
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