Various - Here Comes Santa Claus - 29 Swinging Chestnuts

Artist: Various  |  Label: Bear Family |  Format: CD |  Genre: Holiday | CD Condition: New | Jewel Box Condition: Sealed

Christmas with plenty of swing, jazz, rhythm & blues and light-footed pop lets you enjoy the holidays with a certain ease! -Nostalgic Christmas with 29 Lindy Hop-Jitterbug-Boogie-Jive and Easy Listening rarities from three decades, 1936 - 1965 -Including the title song Here Comes Santa Claus by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters. -Rarities by Molly Bee, The Dispoto Sisters and Peggy Lee - never before on CD! -Johnny Desmond's Marshmellow World next to New Year's Goosebumps classic Auld Lang Syne in the jazzy version by Roy Kral and Jackie Cain, and famous classics by Andy Williams and The Mills Brothers! -Besides the Andrews Sisters, there are other great female voices: the stunning Mahalia Jackson, the Lennon Sisters or Peggy Lee with her smoky lascivious voice -Last but not least, the Jingle Bell Rock is included in a cool swinging version! What we started with our compilation 'Heading For The Christmas Ball' (BCD 17611) in 2020, we would like to continue: to provide the festival of love with more exuberance, even though some songs are nostalgic and dreamy and you might even feel transported back to your own childhood. This Christmas disc invites you to the Christmas ball, to dance, to swing, to contemplation and exuberance among family members, friends, peers and guests. Rare recordings, which cannot be found on any Christmas collection, are in focus here. Once again we can present a number of songs that have never been available on CD before. For example, a novelty number by Dancer, Prancer & Nervous, The Singing Reindeer or I Like A Sleighride by Peggy Lee. Great female voices by Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Mahalia Jackson, The Fontane Sisters and others can be heard. R&B and blues are on your ears from Floyd Dixon, Nat 'King' Cole and Sugar Chile Robinson, and Christmas classics from famous greats like Andy Williams, The Mills Brothers and Bobby Darin. Also available on LP: BAF18072.

     Contains;
Here Comes Santa Claus - Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
Santa Claus Party - Les Baxter & His Orchestra
It's a Marshmellow World - Johnny Desmond
Nuttin' For Christmas - The Fontaine Sisters 
Willy Claus (Little Son of Santa Claus) - Molly Bee
The Happy Reindeer - Dancer, Prancer & Nervous (The Singing Reindeer) 
Christmas Auld Lang Syne - Bobby Darin
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - Les Brow & HIs Band of Renown
Mistletoe & Holly - Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby 
I'm Ready to Reform - Rex Griffin 
Five Pound Box of Money - Pearl Bailey 
JIngle Bells - Frank Sinatra 
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland 
Sleigh Ride - Ella Fitzgerald 
Christmas Song - Michael Warlop, Django Reinhardt & Louis Vola 
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson 
Empty Stocking Blues - Floyd Dixon w/ Johnny Moore's Three Blazers 
The Christmas Song - Nat "King" Cole 
I Like a Sleighride (Jingle Bells) - Peggy Lee
WIlly Claus - The Dispoto Sisters 
The Sound of Christmas - Ramsey Lewis 
The Nutcracker Suite - Les Brown & His Band of Renown 
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Peggy Lee
Winter Wonderland - The Lennon Sisters
Sleigh Ride - Andy Williams 
You Don't Heave to Be a Santa Claus - The Mills Brothers 
Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Rydell & Chubby Checker
Silent Night, Holy Night - Mahalia Jackson 
Auld Lang Syne - The Roy Krall - Jackie Cain Sextet 

NEW SEALED import CD