Search - Harry Simeone :: Little Drummer Boy

Fortunate enough to actually own this great CD!!!

jeff125va | Ashburn, VA United States | 08/22/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Being that this is perhaps my all-time favorite of the Christmas albums I grew up listening to on vinyl, I feel extremely fortunate that I actually own a copy. I have only ever seen that one copy in my life, in a discount box at a long-since closed ... store near my home around 4-5 years ago, and I of course grabbed it right away. It was the last one of my "childhood" Christmas albums to complete my collection on CD. This CD has my favorite renditions of several songs - the title track, which I think is the consensus best recording of "The Little Drummer Boy"; The Carol of the Bells; and even Mary's Little Boy Child, which I like the more upbeat tempo of better than the original Harry Belafonte version (no disrespect meant to Harry). Some of the Christmas albums that I still love from my childhood, such as Ray Conniff, I think are rather corny and probably would not like at all if I were hearing them now for the first time - but this one I would recommend to anyone. It's just timeless, excellent, traditional Christmas music. Since it is so rare, I actually keep my original in a fireproof safe and I only play one of the several backup copies that I made with my CD recorder. I was EXTREMELY lucky to find this CD, I hope the rest of you get as lucky!"