Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Various Artists Title: Yule Be Miserable Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Verve Release Date: 11/24/2006 Genres: Blues, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, R&B, Classical, Broadway & Vocalists Styles: Traditional Blues, Cool Jazz, Swing Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Vocal Jazz, Bebop, Dixieland, Holiday & Wedding, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Traditional Vocal Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 602498111819 |
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The Yuletide washes in the many moods of the season and Yule Be Miserable makes a great attempt at capturing those darker holiday sentiments that come with the holly and the ivy. Still, the title's slightly misleading--eve... more » |
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Amazon.com The Yuletide washes in the many moods of the season and Yule Be Miserable makes a great attempt at capturing those darker holiday sentiments that come with the holly and the ivy. Still, the title's slightly misleading--even with its cool liner notes by comic book icon Harvey "American Splendor" Pekar. While some of these blues tunes (like the renowned Billie Holiday's "Stormy Blues" and Spike Jones' whiney "My Birthday Comes on Christmas") are decidedly down and out, the performances generally will knock off those stockings hung with care. For every tune like Aaron Neville's pleading "Please Come Home for Christmas" or Billy Eckstine's "Blue Christmas," there's more light-hearted fare such as Louie Armstrong's inimitable "'Zat You, Santa Claus?," the two spirited tracks from Ella Fitzgerald ("Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney," "Baby, It's Cold Outside"), and B.B. King's torn-up "Merry Christmas, Baby." Misery this bad never sounded so good. --Martin Keller Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsI'm only gettin' half of what I oughta. Johnny Heering | Bethel, CT United States | 12/15/2005 (3 out of 5 stars) "This CD is supposed to feature unhappy Christmas songs. But in reality, not very many of these songs are particularly mournful. But most of the songs are good, with the exception of Spike Jones' awful version of "Nuttin' For Christmas" (sung by a group of kids). But what is Billie Holiday's "Stormy Blues" doing here, which, although it fits the "miserable" concept, doesn't have anything to do with Christmas? It's also strange that they included two versions of the instrumental "Christmas Blues", although both versions are good. This is a decent CD, but it could have been much better."
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