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Christmas With Dino

CD-Charts > Music > Easy Listening
by: Dean Martin

Release Date November 06, 2006
Nothing gets me in a Christmas mood quite like one of those old crooners. And my favourite is Dean Martin. I have a lot of these songs on old casettes and compilations, but I thought I'd get this one as it had all Dean Martin Christmas songs. It does however lose one star. My favourite song, Baby, it's cold outside, has been marred by removing the original female vocal and having some terrible american contemporary woman called Martina McBride sing over it. I find it extremly distasteful when living 'artists' sing duets with legends who are dead, and can't get a word in wether or not they aprove of such a venture.

Should be offered at amazon with a warning saying: Caution! Christmas spirit marred by contemporary 'country superstar'! ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 62
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Because It's Christmas

CD-Charts > Music > Easy Listening
by: Barry Manilow

Release Date September 29, 2003
Nothing gets me in a Christmas mood quite like one of those old crooners. And my favourite is Dean Martin. I have a lot of these songs on old casettes and compilations, but I thought I'd get this one as it had all Dean Martin Christmas songs. It does however lose one star. My favourite song, Baby, it's cold outside, has been marred by removing the original female vocal and having some terrible american contemporary woman called Martina McBride sing over it. I find it extremly distasteful when living 'artists' sing duets with legends who are dead, and can't get a word in wether or not they aprove of such a venture.

Should be offered at amazon with a warning saying: Caution! Christmas spirit marred by contemporary 'country superstar'! ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 63
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Giordano: Andrea Chénier

CD-Charts > Music > Easy Listening
from: Decca

Release Date May 09, 1990
I first heard 'un di all'azzurro spazio' when I listened to the first 'three tenors' live on Radio 2 from Italy during the world cup. All these years later,I am finally getting round to exploring and buying whole operas. I was very taken by the first review, combined with an excellent website 'must have operas' which is extremely useful for a learner like me.

This opera is sublime. I defy anyone not to shiver during Bastianini's opening aria and it goes on from there. As for Tebaldi's 'la Mamma morte'....why bother with Callas? All that worries me is how to equal or better this, when it's only the second full recording I've bought. Oh well............

CD-Charts Position 64
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Wolcum Yule

CD-Charts > Music > Easy Listening
from: Harmonia Mundi

Release Date February 07, 2005
I first heard 'un di all'azzurro spazio' when I listened to the first 'three tenors' live on Radio 2 from Italy during the world cup. All these years later,I am finally getting round to exploring and buying whole operas. I was very taken by the first review, combined with an excellent website 'must have operas' which is extremely useful for a learner like me.

This opera is sublime. I defy anyone not to shiver during Bastianini's opening aria and it goes on from there. As for Tebaldi's 'la Mamma morte'....why bother with Callas? All that worries me is how to equal or better this, when it's only the second full recording I've bought. Oh well............

CD-Charts Position 65
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Christmas Across the Centuries

CD-Charts > Music > Easy Listening
from: Lammas

Release Date December 07, 2001
I first heard 'un di all'azzurro spazio' when I listened to the first 'three tenors' live on Radio 2 from Italy during the world cup. All these years later,I am finally getting round to exploring and buying whole operas. I was very taken by the first review, combined with an excellent website 'must have operas' which is extremely useful for a learner like me.

This opera is sublime. I defy anyone not to shiver during Bastianini's opening aria and it goes on from there. As for Tebaldi's 'la Mamma morte'....why bother with Callas? All that worries me is how to equal or better this, when it's only the second full recording I've bought. Oh well............

CD-Charts Position 66
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Greatest Christmas Songs

CD-Charts > Music > Easy Listening
by: Julie Andrews

Release Date September 29, 2003
Julie Andrews' "Greatest Christmas Songs" is actually a strange title for this 2000 release, which takes all of the tracks from her 1968 album "A Christmas Treasure," and then adds some pop standards from her 1958 album "Julie Andrews Sings." The Christmas songs, all of which were orchestrated by André Previn, were the first things Andrews recorded after doing "The Sound of Music." One of the things that made the collection rather different was that the songs are those that would be more familiar to an English audience that an American, or familiar tunes with different words, as with "Angels From the Realm of Glory." Previn received equally billing on the original and should have gotten such credit again, since he plays harpsichord on instrumental ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 67
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Christmas Album

CD-Charts > Music > Easy Listening
by: Bing Crosby

Release Date
Julie Andrews' "Greatest Christmas Songs" is actually a strange title for this 2000 release, which takes all of the tracks from her 1968 album "A Christmas Treasure," and then adds some pop standards from her 1958 album "Julie Andrews Sings." The Christmas songs, all of which were orchestrated by André Previn, were the first things Andrews recorded after doing "The Sound of Music." One of the things that made the collection rather different was that the songs are those that would be more familiar to an English audience that an American, or familiar tunes with different words, as with "Angels From the Realm of Glory." Previn received equally billing on the original and should have gotten such credit again, since he plays harpsichord on instrumental ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 68
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Gabriel's Greeting: Medieval English Christmas Music

CD-Charts > Music > Easy Listening
from: Helios

Release Date September 29, 2003
Julie Andrews' "Greatest Christmas Songs" is actually a strange title for this 2000 release, which takes all of the tracks from her 1968 album "A Christmas Treasure," and then adds some pop standards from her 1958 album "Julie Andrews Sings." The Christmas songs, all of which were orchestrated by André Previn, were the first things Andrews recorded after doing "The Sound of Music." One of the things that made the collection rather different was that the songs are those that would be more familiar to an English audience that an American, or familiar tunes with different words, as with "Angels From the Realm of Glory." Previn received equally billing on the original and should have gotten such credit again, since he plays harpsichord on instrumental ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 69
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Christmas In Rome - The English Concert Orchestra And Choir [1993]

CD-Charts > Music > Easy Listening
starring: Pifferari, Livio di Fiori, Giuliano Penta, Dino Ricci, Gabrieli Consort & Players

Release Date November 12, 2007
Julie Andrews' "Greatest Christmas Songs" is actually a strange title for this 2000 release, which takes all of the tracks from her 1968 album "A Christmas Treasure," and then adds some pop standards from her 1958 album "Julie Andrews Sings." The Christmas songs, all of which were orchestrated by André Previn, were the first things Andrews recorded after doing "The Sound of Music." One of the things that made the collection rather different was that the songs are those that would be more familiar to an English audience that an American, or familiar tunes with different words, as with "Angels From the Realm of Glory." Previn received equally billing on the original and should have gotten such credit again, since he plays harpsichord on instrumental ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 70
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Bach - Passions; Christmas Oratorio; Motets

CD-Charts > Music > Easy Listening
by: Baden- South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra

Release Date October 25, 2004
Julie Andrews' "Greatest Christmas Songs" is actually a strange title for this 2000 release, which takes all of the tracks from her 1968 album "A Christmas Treasure," and then adds some pop standards from her 1958 album "Julie Andrews Sings." The Christmas songs, all of which were orchestrated by André Previn, were the first things Andrews recorded after doing "The Sound of Music." One of the things that made the collection rather different was that the songs are those that would be more familiar to an English audience that an American, or familiar tunes with different words, as with "Angels From the Realm of Glory." Previn received equally billing on the original and should have gotten such credit again, since he plays harpsichord on instrumental ... Read More: