| All Artists: Vera Lynn Title: At Christmas Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: EMI Import Original Release Date: 1/1/2009 Re-Release Date: 11/24/2009 Album Type: Import Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists Styles: Holiday & Wedding, Vocal Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 5099945872327 |
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 | Vera Lynn At Christmas Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists Digitally remastered edition of this 1976 holiday album from the beloved British vocalist, appearing here for the first time on CD. Vera needs no introduction as she is known as 'England's sweetheart', has recorded for sev... more » |
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Album Description Digitally remastered edition of this 1976 holiday album from the beloved British vocalist, appearing here for the first time on CD. Vera needs no introduction as she is known as 'England's sweetheart', has recorded for seven decades and recently became the oldest person, at 92, to ever have a #1 album. 12 tracks including 'Sleigh Ride', 'White Christmas', 'Do You Hear What I Hear' and many others. EMI Gold. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsGreat Christmas album from 1976 Peter Durward Harris | Leicester England | 11/24/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "Originally released towards the end of Vera's recording career, this album contains two songs that appear to be originals (Let's have a merry, merry Christmas, A Christmas wish from me to you) and two rarely recorded songs, together with eight standards, some of which turn up more frequently than others on Christmas albums.
Of the rarely recorded songs, one (The little boy that Santa Claus forgot) is most commonly associated with Nat King Cole, while the other (Little donkey) has been recorded by such singers as the Beverley sisters, Nina and Frederick, Gracie Fields and Patti Page. The album opens with a brief instrumental intro of O come all ye faithful, which segues nicely into Sleigh ride. That song, with the Mike Sammes singers backing Vera, gets the album off to a bright and breezy start. The Mike Sammes singers also back Vera on Do you hear what I hear? Otherwise, Vera is left to perform all the vocals, backed by an unobtrusive orchestra. The booklet inside contains (among other things) pictures of three compilations of Vera's music released on EMI. All of them are well worth hearing, but please remember that the tracks for these compilations were recorded in the sixties and seventies and any songs that you recognize as wartime classics are re-recordings. For those wartime recordings, go for the Spectrum 5-CD budget collection Gold: 100 Songs From A Life In Music, released in December 2009. Vera was in top form throughout and the song selection, with its mix of rarely heard songs and standards making for an excellent Christmas album." |
