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Christmas Collection [CD + DVD]

~ Frank Sinatra
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  • Audio CD (29 Nov 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Wea
  • ASIN: B0006GRKME
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 26,873 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
2. The Christmas Waltz
3. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (First Time on CD)
4. The Little Drummer Boy
5. We Wish You The Merriest
6. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
7. Go Tell It On The Mountain
8. The Christmas Song, With Bing Crosby (First Time on CD)
9. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
10. I Wouldn’t Trade Christmas
See all 18 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Filming Of The Re-Recording Of "Silent Night"
2. Silent Night (Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Talk about your gifts of Christmas past; The Christmas Collection is a must-have for any Sinatra-phile, right down to its family photos and one priceless shot of Sinatra swinging a golf club next to the tree wearing a Santa suit. Complete with four previously unreleased tracks (some from live TV specials)--including two with Bing Crosby ("The Christmas Song" and "White Christmas"), the 18-song collection surveys Sinatra's holiday output and its effects are often chilling. Listening to him glide soulfully through Jimmy Webb's melancholy but romantic "What Ever Happened to Christmas?" or hearing him do his immaculate phrasing on "Silent Night" when he was visibly frail and aging in 1991 are close encounters of a Sinatra kind that are rarely captured on one album. There's also a delightful "The Twelve Days of Christmas" sung with his kids Nancy and Frank, Jr., from their 1969 record The Sinatra Family Wish You A Merry Christmas and insightful and intimate liner notes by James Ritz, not to mention those magical orchestral arrangements. Here's a five-star package to remind us that it's still Frank's world--we just rent a stable in it. Highly recommended. --Martin Keller


CD Description

The Chairman of the Board breezes his way through THE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION, a well-chosen set of Yuletide classics. This nicely remastered set should summon up memories of Christmas past for many, and is still capable of conjuring a certain kind of comforting holiday magic for younger generations. Sinatra swings through traditional fireside sing-alongs ("Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" and "The Twelve Days of Christmas"), often accompanied by his kids, Tina, Nancy, and Frank,Jr., in the days before the latter two became stars in their own right. Sinatra is also joined by his one-time rival inthe crooner stakes, Bing Crosby, most notably on the classic "White Christmas", which still has the power to call up pleasing sentiments of the season. The combination of Sinatra's warm, yet world-weary, voice and the material's lushly appointed arrangements is timeless and irresistible.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not the happiest Christmas collection, 3 Dec 2004
By Mr. R. B. Ager "Ronald Ager" (Nottingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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The title of this CD "The Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection" is quite significant, because it has been compiled by Warners from various sources, including a 1964 album with Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, a 1968 one with the other members of the Sinatra family, previously unreleased snippets from a 1957 TV show with Bing Crosby, and a 1991 recording for charity.

Highlights are The Christmas Waltz and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. The songs with Fred Waring are good, too, although on some of them there's not much Sinatra - in fact Go Tell It On The Mountain is nearly all Bing Crosby.

Crosby takes the lion's share of the three short duets from the 1957 TV show; Sinatra joins in, rather reluctantly and out of time at the end.

The family album must have sounded like a good idea at the time, but the songs and their arrangements now sound toe-curlingly embarassing. And he definitely sounds uncomfortable with the setting of Little Drummer Boy.

Christmas Memories, a single from 1965, is a maudlin tune, reminiscent of I Will Drink The Wine, belying the lyric about stringing popcorn and cookies baking in the kitchen. By this time Sinatra's voice was getting beyond its prime, and it sounds like it.

And so we come to Silent Night, which was originally recorded in 1991 for charity, with just a piano accompaniment - Johnny Mandel has added orchestration for this album. Daughter Nancy admits, in the accompanying booklet and DVD, that he was unwell at the time and had to be coaxed (to put it kindly) to do it. Listening to him struggling for breath is painful, and as much torture for the listener as it must have been for him - you end up feeling relieved he made it to the end.

The "bonus" DVD, all seven minutes of it, contains soundbites from members of the family as well as Johnny Mandel and some of the Sinatra alumni gathered together to record the orchestral backing for Silent Night. Then follows the recording itself, with very brief flashes of a young Sinatra and a Christmas tree.

Throughout all of this the orchestral backing, arrangements and production are as good as you would expect with any Sinatra recording - with the involvement of Nelson Riddle, Jack Halloran and Johnny Mandel they couldn't be anything else. It is the vocal input of Sinatra himself that falls short, which is a shame. There are other Sinatra Christmas CDs available, recorded during his spells with Capitol and earlier with US Columbia and these may be more rewarding; as emotional as his last recording here is I prefer to remember him at his peak rather than trying to eke out one last song in the twilight of his years.
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