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A Holiday Celebration [Import]

~ Peter Paul & Mary
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (25 Aug 1992)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Wea
  • ASIN: B000002MGH
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 216,158 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
2. Soalin'
3. Friendly Beasts
4. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
5. I Wonder as I Wander
6. Magi (The Heart of Man's a Palace)
7. Children Go Where I Send Thee
8. Cherry Tree Carol
9. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
10. Hayo, Haya
11. Light One Candle
12. Blowin' in the Wind

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One of the most successful folk groups of the 1960s ("Puff the Magic Dragon," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"), Peter, Paul & Mary reunited in 1978 and have pretty much continued playing together for people of all ages. This celebration is helped along by the New York Choral Society and includes many familiar Christmas songs. While none of them possess an extraordinary singing voice or dexterous musicianship, their talents combined make for a sound greater than the sum of its parts. Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" is their one concession to their success as topical performers. The rest is festive and often moving. --Rob O'Connor

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great album for listening to while trimming the tree, 14 Jan 2003
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Always a favorite holiday album, "A Holiday Celebration" has not only the warmly familiar harmonies of Peter, Paul and Mary, but the support of the New York Choral Society. This 1988 album was also recorded live, which has always been the best way to listen to the trio sing. Most importantly, this is a "holiday" album, which means it is not limited to Christmas songs, but covers the entire spectrum of the season. There are conventional Christmas songs ("We Wish You A Merry Christmas"), religious songs ("O Come, O Come Emmanuel"), Jewish Songs ("Hayo, Haya"), Children's Songs ("The Friendly Beasts"), familiar poems set to music ("'Twas the Night Before Christmas"), old PP&M classics ("A Soalin'") and even protest songs ("Blowin' In the Wind"). Truly, there is something for everybody on this album. Mary Travers is featured on a beautiful song you have probably never heard before, "I Wonder As I Wander." This is just a lovely album and as soon as I listen to it each year I am in the mood for the holidays. This is also the first album I put on each year when it is time to trim the tree.
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21 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Recorded in the eighties, 14 Feb 2005
By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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I did not expect to find a choir and orchestra on an album by Peter Paul and Mary, but that's what you get here. It's pleasant enough but I would have preferred them to stick to their folk-pop roots. The other notable feature of this album is that although they have recorded many traditional songs, they have added new words and / or music to many of them (presumably so that they can get royalties) although some of the differences seem small though the new music for 'Twas the night before Christmas is certainly noticeable.

Once you accept it for what it is, this album is rather good. It includes some original songs (The Magi, Light one candle), some rarely heard traditional songs (The friendly beasts, Cherry tree carol) and a couple of re-recordings of songs from their sixties repertoire (A-soalin', Blowing in the wind).

This is a fine album but I would have liked it better if they had recorded a folk-pop album.

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