Sunday, 27 September 2009

Christmas


Christmas


My story

Although I'd heard a few Christmas albums in my childhood, the first one I actually bought (on vinyl) was by Lynn Anderson. I remember buying it in May (!) one year when I was building my collection of her music. Perhaps it wasn't an ideal time to buy it but if I'd waited, maybe it wouldn't be available. I was most impressed by that album despite acquiring it at the wrong time of year. I eventually became a big fan of Christmas music as you can see from my Amazon reviews. Surprising as it may seem, I never get bored with the old chestnuts. I actually find it interesting to hear all the different interpretations of the same songs, but then I've always had a soft spot for cover versions.

My reviews

Please note that, for now, I've only listed albums from Amazon UK that weren't listed elsewhere at the time I set up the page; some have since been set up on Amazon.com and in such cases, the UK entry remains but I've added the US entry too. One day I'll list everything but it won't be any time soon. For Germany (Amazon.de), I've only listed the foreign language albums. It is unlikely that I will ever list the others here.

Please also note that multi-artist compilations are listed together on a single page, but albums by individual artists are listed by category. One day, I hope to add a section on tracks that appear on non-Christmas albums but which I don't have on Christmas albums.

My Christmas reviews
Books
All Christmas books
Music
Various artists
Mainstream
Male country
Female country
Folk
Brass bands
Jazz
Classical
Choral
Christian pop and rock
Foreign language

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goooooood girl
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Books


Various artists


Various artists








A selection of compilations and specially recorded multi-artist collaborative projects, from which everybody should find something they like.

Various artists Christmas music reviews
Amazon.com
Best ever carols album (choral)
WOW Christmas - 30 top Christian artists and holiday songs
(Christian pop and rock)
That Christmas feeling (1940's)
An Irish holiday (eclectic)
Cold blow these winter winds (folk)
Best Christmas carols ever (choral) not yet reviewed
Classic Christmas (crossover classical)
White Christmas (vintage oldies)
Christmas with the bands (mostly brass bands)
Merry Christmas children everywhere

Various artists pop and rock Christmas music reviews
Amazon.com
A very special Christmas, volume 1
A very special Christmas, volume 2
A very special Christmas, volume 3
Phil Spector : A Christmas gift for you (sixties)
Best Christmas album in the world ever, 2nd edition
Best Christmas album in the world ever, 3rd edition
Now! that's what I call Xmas, UK 3-CD version
All time greatest Christmas songs
Maybe this Christmas tree
Christmas hits, UK 3-CD version
Christmas hits, UK 4-CD version
Christmas memories are made of this (mostly fifties and sixties)
Heartbeat Christmas (mostly sixties)
Christmas with the stars (EMI)
Christmas with the stars (Spectrum)
Christmas dinner album
Sequel's sixties Christmas
Amazon.co.uk
Sequel's sixties Christmas

Various artists R+B Christmas music reviews
Amazon.com
Soul Christmas (sixties soul)
A Christmas present from Motown volume 1 (soul)
A Christmas present from Motown volume 2 (soul)

Have yourself a soulful Christmas (soul)
Rhythm and blues Christmas (mostly fifties)

Various artists jazz Christmas music reviews
Amazon.com
Christmas with the jazz legends
Christmas with the jazz legends volume 2
Christmas with the jazz legends volume 3

Various artists country Christmas music reviews
Amazon.com
A very special acoustic Christmas
Dysfunctional family Christmas
Hillbilly holiday
Tennessee Christmas
70 ounces of country Christmas
A country superstar Christmas
A country superstar Christmas, volume 2
A country superstar Christmas, volume 3
A country superstar Christmas, volume 4
All-star country Christmas
25th December : Christmas celebration of women
Songs of Christmas
A country Christmas
A Christmas tradition
Amazon.co.uk
Christmas country

Various artists bluegrass Christmas music reviews
Amazon.com
Sugar plums : Holiday treats from Sugar Hill
Tinsel tunes
Blue Ridge mountain Christmas
O Christmas tree
Christmas grass (mainly instrumental)

Mainstream


Mainstream








Please note that the album Phil Spector : A Christmas gift for you is really a multi-artist album and I list it officially on the Various artists page.

This page covers a diverse range of music including pop, rock, easy listening and some crossover classical.

My mainstream Christmas music reviews
Amazon.com
Aimee Mann : One more drifter in the snow
Aled Jones : Christmas album
America : Holiday harmony
Andrews Sisters : Christmas
Barbra Streisand : Christmas album
Barbra Streisand : Christmas memories
Beach Boys : Christmas with
Bette Midler : Cool Yule
Bing Crosby : Voice of Christmas
Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters : A merry Christmas with
Blackmore's Night : Winter carols
Blind Boys of Alabama : Go tell it on the mountain
Boney M : Christmas with
Brenda Lee : Christmas collection - 20th century masters
Bryn Terfel : Carols and Christmas songs
Carly Simon : Christmas is almost here
Carpenters : Collection
Celine Dion : These are special times
Cheetah Girls : Cheetah-licious Christmas
Chipmunks : Christmas with
Chris Isaak : Christmas
Connie Francis : Christmas album
Cyndi Lauper : Merry Christmas...Have a nice life!
Destiny's Child : 8 days of Christmas
Doris Day : Personal Christmas collection
Elaine Paige : Christmas
Elvis Presley : Christmas duets
Elvis Presley : Christmas peace
Four Seasons : Christmas album
Harry Secombe : My favorite carols
Hayley Westenra : Winter magic
Hilary Duff : Santa Claus Lane
Indigo Girls : Holly happy days
Irish Rovers : An Irish Christmas
James Brown : The complete James Brown Christmas
Jane Olivor : Songs of the season
Jethro Tull : Christmas album
Jewel : Joy - a holiday collection
Jo Stafford : Happy holidays - I love the winter weather
Joan Osborne : Christmas means love
Judy Collins : All on a wintry night - a Judy Collins Christmas
Julie Andrews : Greatest Christmas songs
Julie Andrews : Christmas with
Kate and Anna McGarrigle : The McGarrigle Christmas hour
Kathie Lee Gifford : It's Christmas time
Mariah Carey : Merry Christmas
Mariah Carey : Merry Christmas II you
Melanie : Antlers - a Christmas for true believers
Melissa Manchester : Joy
Michael Ball : Christmas
Nana Mouskouri : Christmas album
Nat King Cole : Christmas album
Neil Diamond : Christmas album
Neil Diamond : Christmas album volume 2
New Christy Minstrels : Christmas with - complete
Olivia Newton-John : Christmas wish
Patti Labelle : 20th century masters (not yet reviewed)
Patty Parker : La Noche Buena, it's Christmas Eve
Perry Como : Complete Christmas Collection (not yet reviewed)
Peter, Paul and Mary : A holiday celebration
Petula Clark : Merry Christmas / Joyeux Noel
Puppini Sisters : Christmas with
Ray Conniff : We wish you a merry Christmas
Roches : We three kings
Sarah Brightman : Winter symphony
Sarah McLachlan : Wintersong
Seekers : Morningtown ride to Christmas
Shakin' Stevens : Merry Christmas everyone
Shawn Colvin : Holiday songs and lullabies
Sheila G White and Blueberry Hill : Merry Christmas darlin'
Susan Boyle : The gift
Swingle Singers : Unwrapped
Tori Amos : Midwinter graces
Vera Lynn : At Christmas
Vikki Carr : Christmas album

Male country

Male country


Please note that male/female duet albums are included here as well as in the female vocal page. In the case of the Kenny and Dolly album, please note that this exists in two different versions. The British version, despite being marketed as a Dolly Parton album (with Kenny's name in small print) is a straight re-issue of the original 1984 album, while the American album has one Dolly track (Hard candy Christmas) replacing the two solo tracks by Kenny.

My male country Christmas music reviews
Amazon.com
Aaron Tippin : A December to remember
Alabama : Christmas
Alabama : Christmas II
Alabama : Christmas collection (both of the above re-packaged)
Alan Jackson : Honky tonk Christmas (not yet reviewed)
Alan Jackson : Let it be Christmas
Asleep at the Wheel : Merry Texas Christmas, y'all
Ben Keith and friends : Christmas at the ranch
Brooks and Dunn : It won't be Christmas without you
Buck Owens : Christmas with
Buck Owens : Christmas shopping
Charley Pride : Christmas in my home town
Charlie Daniels : Christmas time down south
Clint Black : Christmas with you
Collin Raye : The gift
Dale Watson : Christmas Time in Texas
Daniel O'Donnell : Christmas with
Doug Stone : First Christmas
Dwight Yoakam : Come on Christmas
Elmo and Patsy : Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Garth Brooks : Beyond the season
Gatlin Brothers : Christmas with
Gene Autry : Complete Columbia Christms recordings
George Strait : Merry Christmas Strait to you
Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison : Happy holidays
Kenny Rogers : Christmas greetings
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton : Once upon a Christmas (9 tracks)
Kenny Rogers : The gift
Kenny Rogers : Christmas from the heart
Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum : Winter's grace
Lee Greenwood : Christmas to Christmas
Manson Grant : Christmas collection - The greatest gift of all
Marty Robbins : A Christmas remembered
Merle Haggard : A Country Christmas with
Merle Haggard : Goin’ home for Christmas
Michael Martin Murphey : Cowboy Christmas
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band : Christmas album
Oak Ridge Boys : Christmas
Randy Travis : An old time Christmas
Ray Stevens : Christmas through a different window
Ricky Van Shelton : Sings Christmas
Riders in the Sky : Christmas the cowboy way
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans : Christmas is always
Sawyer Brown : Hallelujah he is born
Skaggs family : Christmas volume 1
Statler Brothers : Christmas collection - 20th century masters
Statler Brothers : Christmas present
Steve Wariner : Christmas memories
Toby Keith : Christmas to Christmas
Vince Gill : Breath of heaven - a Christmas collection
Amazon.co.uk
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton : Once upon a Christmas (10 tracks)
Lee Kernaghan : Christmas album

Female country


Female country



Please note that male/female duet albums are included here as well as in the male vocal page. In the case of the Kenny and Dolly album, please note that this exists in two different versions. The British version, despite being marketed as a Dolly Parton album (with Kenny's name in small print) is a straight re-issue of the original 1984 album, while the American album has one Dolly track (Hard candy Christmas) replacing the two solo tracks by Kenny.


My female country Christmas music reviews
Amazon.com
Anne Murray : Best of the season
Anne Murray : What a wonderful Christmas
Barbara Mandrell : Christmas at our house
Brenda Lee : Christmas collection - 20th century masters
Burns sisters : Tradition - holiday songs old and new
Connie Brown : Christmas country style
Cristy Lane : Christmas classics
Deana Carter : Father Christmas
Dolly Parton : Home for Christmas
Elmo and Patsy : Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Emmylou Harris : Light of the stable
Forester Sisters : Christmas card
Isaacs : Christmas Spirit
Jo Dee Messina : A joyful noise
Joey and Rory : A farmhouse Christmas
Judds : Christmas time with
Kathy Mattea : Good news
Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison : Happy holidays
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton : Once upon a Christmas (9 tracks)
Kimmie Rhodes : Miracles on Christmas Day
Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum : Winter's grace
LeAnn Rimes : What a wonderful world
Lee Ann Womack : The season for romance
Loretta Lynn : 20th century masters - the Christmas collection
Lorrie Morgan : Merry Christmas From London
Lynn Anderson : The Christmas album
Martina McBride : White Christmas (12 tracks)
Martina McBride : White Christmas (16 tracks)
Mary Chapin Carpenter :
Come darkness come light - twelve songs of Christmas
Mindy Smith : My holiday
Pam Tillis : Just in time for Christmas
Patty Loveless : Bluegrass and white snow - a mountain Christmas
Patty Parker : La Noche Buena, it's Christmas Eve
Paulette Carlson : Christmas is for you
Reba McEntire : Merry Christmas to you
Reba McEntire : Secret of giving
Rhonda Vincent : Beautiful star - the Christmas collection
Rosie Flores : Christmasville
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans : Christmas is always
SheDaisy : Brand new year
Skaggs family : Christmas volume 1
Stacy Sullivan : Cold enough to snow
Stephanie Davis : Home for the holidays
Sugarland : Gold and green
Suzy Bogguss : Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Tammy Wynette : Christmas with
Trisha Yearwood : The sweetest gift
Vanessa Barrett : Christmas in the country
Vanessa Peters : The Christmas we hoped for
Wendy Lewis : Christmas favorites
Wynonna Judd : A classic Christmas
Amazon.de
Linda Feller : Stille Stunden am Kamin

Linda Feller : Wintermärchenzeit
Amazon.co.uk
Gina Jeffreys : Christmas wish
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton : Once upon a Christmas (10 tracks)

Folk

Brass bands


Jazz