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Frank Sinatra - The Christmas Collection

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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 left. Sinatra is also joined by his one-time rival in the 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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Talk about your gifts of Christmas past, The Christmas Collection is a must-have for any Sinatra-phile, left 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

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Track list:

1. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

2. Christmas Waltz, The

3. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

4. Little Drummer Boy, The

5. We Wish You The Merriest - (with Bing Crosby)

6. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

7. Go Tell It On The Mountain - (with Bing Crosby)

8. Christmas Song, The - (previously unreleased, with Bing Crosby)

9. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day

10. I Wouldn't Trade Christmas - (with Tina Sinatra/Nancy Sinatra/Frank Sinatra Jr.)

11. Christmas Memories

12. Twelve Days Of Christmas, The - (with Tina Sinatra/Nancy Sinatra/Frank Sinatra Jr.)

13. Bells Of Christmas (Greensleeves) - (with Tina Sinatra/Nancy Sinatra/Frank Sinatra Jr.)

14. Old Fashioned Christmas, An

15. Baby Just Like You, A

16. Whatever Happened To Christmas

17. White Christmas - (previously unreleased, with Bing Crosby)

18. Silent Night - (previously unreleased, bonus track)

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