VA - 100 Hits - Kids Christmas [5CD Box Set] (2011)

Jazz, Pop | Author: artmuss | 21-11-2019, 10:19

Artist: Various Artists
Title Of Album: 100 Hits - Kids Christmas
Year Of Release: 2011
Label (Catalog#): Demon Music Group [DMG 100 094]
Genre: Pop, Swing, Vocal, Christmas, Easy Listening
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 4:30:20
Full Size: 1.04 gb

Review

CD1 - Perfect stuff for getting in the Christmas mood this. Close your eyes... no, actually, don't do that or you won't be able to read this review. Alright then, just imagine... you're wrapping your presents, wishing to god that you'd bought more box-shaped ones instead of things that are going to look like they've been wrapped by a creature with no thumbs (no? Oh well, that must just be me then); you've just managed to lose the scissors and you're fed up to the back teeth of having to find the end of the sticky tape EVERY time you want to bite another piece off. You're just thinking about joining the Ebenezer Scrooge fan club when, joy of joys, something makes you put CD1 on. Can you hear the dulcet tones of Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and the rest? They'll see you alright. There now, don't you feel better?

CD2 - More of the same on this disc. Just imagine it's Christmas Eve then. You've just got back from some last-minute shopping, an experience that has left you frazzled and at the end of your Yuletide tether to the point where you could cheerfully tell Santa where he can stick his mince pie and glass of brandy... you need a quick dose of Christmas spirit and you need it fast. Someone, get CD2 on! There - I defy anyone to listen to 'Jingle Bell Rock' and not want to dance around their living room to it. By the time you get to 'Away in a Manger' you'll be wishing it was the middle of August and you still had all this to look forward to!

CD3 - OK, so now it's Christmas Day. You've opened your presents, you've been left hideously disappointed and you're giving very serious consideration to putting a hit out on Santa Claus as a result. To make matters worse, your in-laws have just turned up. Now you're going to have to be polite about that Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer cardigan they bought you. The day's becoming stressful and you haven't even started cooking lunch yet. However, never fear - CD3 is here! Guaranteed to put a smile on any face, this contains some fabulously fun tracks. Personally speaking, if I never hear the Singing Dogs or the Chipmunks ever again I will die a happy man, but that's just me. The disc ends with the 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy', which is perfect if there's a mother-in-law, a daughter-in-law or some other festive trouble-maker getting right up your nose. Remember that bit in 'Fawlty Towers', where Basil puts that tune on for Sybil? Well, just think of that. Come on, you've got to smile at that!

CD4 - This combines popular Christmas songs with traditional carols, all of them sung very well by the 'CRS Players'. I don't know who they are but they do a perfectly respectable job of bringing new life to some tired old songs. In any case, you're not going to give a monkey's what they sound like by the time this disc goes on. You'll have pulled off the perfect lunch by now and will be receiving compliments from left, right and centre. Your mother-in-law, daughter-in-law or some other festive trouble-maker will be talking about organising a military coup to put you on the throne by this time. Life is great! Fair enough, you may well have nodded off after that second glass of eggnog and this could in fact all be a dream... but if it is, can you imagine what listening to a sultry CRS Player singing 'Santa Baby' is going to do to that dream?! Santa looks just like Siobhan Fahey in my dreams, I don't know about yours.

CD5 - Well, they've gone. They don't know it yet, but they've even been tricked into taking that hideous Rudolph cardigan with them. You did it! Another Christmas passes by without major incident. There'll be no appearances at the Old Bailey early next year to answer a charge of murder and you're still talking to ALL of your relations! Why not put your feet up in celebration of just how wonderful you are and have a nice, relaxed listen to this final disc? Go on, there's nobody else around, just you. Now then, how does it go? Ah yes: 'Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea'. Go on - you know you want to!

:: TRACKLIST ::

1. Bing Crosby – Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (02:16)
2. Dean Martin – Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (01:56)
3. Perry Como – it's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (02:40)
4. Gene Autry – Here Comes Santa Claus (02:34)
5. Nat King Cole – Frosty The Snowman (02:16)
6. Ella Fitzgerald – Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney (03:08)
7. Gayla Peveey – I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (02:34)
8. Diana Decker – I'm A Little Christmas Cracker (01:57)
9. Doris Day – Christmas Story (03:10)
10. Nat King Cole – I Saw Three Ships (01:26)
11. The Beverly Sisters – Little Donkey (02:14)
12. Ruby Wright – Santa's Little Sleigh Bells (02:21)
13. Bing Crosby – Silver Bells (03:03)
14. Mandy Miller – Snowflakes (02:19)
15. Eve Boswell – The Christmas Tree (02:52)
16. Nat King Cole – The Little Christmas Tree (03:15)
17. Harry Simeone Chorale – The Little Drummer Boy (03:20)
18. Rosemary Clooney – Suzy Snowflake (02:57)
19. Petula Clark – Where Did My Snowman Go? (02:11)
20. Bing Crosby – White Christmas (03:04)
21. Bobby Helms – Jingle Bell Rock (02:11)
22. Brenda Lee – Rocking Around The Christmas Tree (02:05)
23. Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald – Marshmallow World (02:53)
24. Louis Prima – Shake Hands With Santa Claus (02:27)
25. Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters – Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (02:41)
26. Diana day – Funny Little Snowman (02:50)
27. The Mills Brothers – I Believe In Santa Claus (02:17)
28. Adam Faith – Lonely Pup (In A Christmas Shop) (01:48)
29. Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters – (The Toys Gave A Party For) Poppa Santa Claus (03:14)
30. Louis Armstrong – Zat You Santa Claus (02:48)
31. Anne Shelton – Away in a Manger (03:01)
32. Connie Francis – Baby's First Christmas (03:21)
33. Dickie Valentine – Christmas Alphabet (02:07)
34. Diana Decker – Do You Love Old Santa Claus? (02:38)
35. Rosemary Clooney – Little Red Riding's Hood Christmas Tree (03:01)
36. Mandy Miller – Little Snowman, Little Snowgirl (02:34)
37. Harry Belafonte – Mary's Boy Child (02:59)
38. Nat King Cole – Mrs. Santa Claus (02:08)
39. Doris Day – Ol' Saint Nicholas (02:23)
40. Ruby Murray – Silent Night (02:23)
41. Spike Jones – All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) (03:12)
42. Yorgi Yorgesson – I Just Go Nuts At Christmas (03:14)
43. The Singing Dogs – Jingle Bells (01:41)
44. The Goons – I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas (03:18)
45. The Chipmunks – The Chipmunks Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) (02:20)
46. Bobby Sherman – I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (02:18)
47. The Weavers – We Wish You a Merry Christmas (02:26)
48. Brenda Lee – I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus (02:17)
49. Boston Pops Orchestra – Sleigh Ride (02:48)
50. Johnny Mathis – Winter Wonderland (03:16)
51. Nat King Cole – Deck The Halls (01:08)
52. Perry Como – Twas The Night Before Christmas (03:41)
53. Stan Freberg – Nuttin' For Christmas (02:24)
54. Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters – The Twelve Days Of Christmas (03:23)
55. Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee And Trudy Stevens – Snow (02:42)
56. Nat King Cole – The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (02:32)
57. Peter Brough And Archie Andrews – The Little Fir Tree (02:56)
58. Nat King Cole – There's A Train Out For Dreamland (02:39)
59. Judy Garland – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (02:45)
60. L'Orchestre De La Suisse Ronande – Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (02:00)
61. The CRS Players – All I Want For Christmas Is You (03:42)
62. The CRS Players – Last Christmas (05:04)
63. The CRS Players – Merry Christmas Everybody (03:09)
64. The CRS Players – Santa Baby (03:15)
65. The CRS Players – Wonderful Christmastime (03:51)
66. The CRS Players – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (04:32)
67. The CRS Players – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (03:26)
68. The CRS Players – Christmas Bells (01:30)
69. The CRS Players – Go Tell It on the Mountain (00:56)
70. The CRS Players – Mary Had a Baby (01:17)
71. The CRS Players – In the Bleak Midwinter (01:21)
72. The CRS Players – Good King Wenceslas (00:42)
73. The CRS Players – Mistletoe And Wine (03:36)
74. The CRS Players – We Three Kings of Orient Are (01:08)
75. The CRS Players – The Holly and the Ivy (01:20)
76. The CRS Players – The First Noel (02:10)
77. The CRS Players – O Little Town Of Bethlehem (01:30)
78. The CRS Players – Once in Royal David's City (00:44)
79. The CRS Players – While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night (01:11)
80. The CRS Players – When A Child Is Born (03:11)
81. Bing Crosby, William Bendix And Cedric Hardwicke – Busy Doin' Nothing (03:00)
82. Ann Stephens – Buckingham Palace (02:25)
83. Frankie Howard – Three Little Fishes (03:21)
84. Danny Kaye – The Ugly Duckling (03:05)
85. Vernon Dalhart – The Runaway Train (03:14)
86. Charles Penrose – The Laughing Policeman (02:33)
87. Henry Hall – Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf? (02:43)
88. Danny Kaye – Tubby the Tuba (Parts 1 & 2) (08:52)
89. Henry Blair – Sparky's Magic Piano (Parts 1 & 2) (06:19)
90. Flanagan And Allen – Run, Rabbit, Run (02:43)
91. The Weavers – On Top of Old Smokey (02:42)
92. Mandy Miller – Nellie The Elephant (02:30)
93. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann – The Hippoptomaus Song - Mud, Glorious, Mud (03:21)
94. Tommy Steele – Little White Bull (03:44)
95. Lita Roza – How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? (02:15)
96. Max Bygraves – Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katnellen Bogen By The Sea (02:58)
97. Bing Crosby – Swinging On A Star (02:31)
98. Lonnie Donegan – Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour… (02:34)
99. Danny Kaye – Thumbelina (01:47)
100. Vera Lynn – Goodnight Children Everywhere (02:55)

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