This is fantastic group harmony on lots of favorite winter (Christmassy) songs.

Track Listing

1. Sleighride
2. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
3. Baby It's Cold Outside
4. First Snowfall Of The Winter
5. Skater's Waltz
6. Jingle Bells
7. It Happened In Sun Valley
8. Wintertime
9. Winter Weather
10. Love Turns Winter To Spring
11. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
12. Let It Snow, Let It Snow

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86781 in Music
• Released on: 2002-10-10
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Originally released in 1960, the Randy Van Horne Singers capture the true spirit of the ring-ging-a-ling holidays. This classic choral album, never before on CD, features such holiday classics as Sleighride, Baby ItÕs Cold Outside, It Happened In Sun Valley and Let It Snow, Let It Snow.

About the Artist
Randy Van Horne: Leader and Arranger

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Customer Reviews

CLASSIC 1960 ALBUM NOW ON CD, GREAT!
Randy Van Horne is responsible among other things for providing the vocal group that sang all of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon themes such as The Flintstones, Jetsons, etc. They appeared on almost every Esquival album as well as backing up Dean Martin, Nat King Cole and many others. The group included Marni Nixon the famous singer who dubbed for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and Natalie Wood in West Side Story. Thurl Ravenscroft the voice of Tony The Tiger is also in this prolific group. The Cd takes you back to a time when great jazzy choral groups used their musicianship to create a blanket of harmony. On this CD which has been digitally remastered, you hear it as never before. It's the perfect fireside Winter evening companion for those who like lounge or retro. Many fondly remember this album from their youth, sure to be a hit with people of all ages. Not a Christmas album, it's about Winter, enjoy!

Wonderful And Romantic Chorus Christmas Album
While this album, from 1960, isn't actually a christmas album (in that no soing has the word 'christmas' in it or anything specifically 'christmas'), the songs are in fact, the usual christmas standards in most cases. It's like this:

SLEIGHRIDE are JINGLE BELLS are two songs that are commonly accepted as christmas songs. I mean, what can be nicer than taking a slighride (which both songs kinda deal with) on christmas eve and christmas day with your family and/or friends. Because of this and their almost always association with christmas albums (being songs on christmas albums), these two songs are as much christmas songs as WHITE CHRISTMAS or THE CHRISTMAS SONG are. In fact, both SLEIGHRIDE and JINGLE BELLS are among the greatest versions of each song ever recorded.

Another song on this album like the popular LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW is also accepted as a christmas song because what's nicer than a 'white christmas?' You need it to snow so you can have that 'white christmas.' THE FIRST SNOWFALL OF WINTER follows this 'white christmas' trend and so is itslef a christmas song as much as it is a winter song. Both of these songs are also wonderful versions of each of them.

THE SKATER'S WALTZ is a nice and romantic song where you can picture a couple taking a skate on a local pond, perhaps, on christmas eve or christmas day. The wintry scene this song portrays is again that of a 'white christmas.'

This wintry, romantic, and 'white christmas' feeling is also strongly found in WINTER WEATHER, WINTERTIME, and BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE. These songs make me think of one sitting by the fireplace and christmas tree some evening just before christmas (perhaps christmas evening or day) with a cup of hot cocoa along with that special someone.

A great thing about this album is that not only is every song great and top-notch, there are several rare songs along with the usual standards which makes this a really great and fresh christmas recording.

The style of this album (both singing and backing music which seems to be a small band such as a jazz combo rather than an orchestra) is one of a romantic jazz/jazz crooner, (though not necessarily just jazz), relaxed, almost lazy style at times (in a good way) and influences are PERRY COMO - SEASONS GREETINGS lp from 1959, especially PERRY'S versions of WINTER WONDERLAND, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, and SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN TO TOWN (bacause of the relaxed and sometimes almost lazy sound) or even THE NORMAN LUBOFF CHOIR non-christmas compilation cd, TICKET TO THE MOVIES (though, with a christmas styling). There is a more upbeat sound too, in songs like SLEIGHRIDE and JINGLE BELLS.

Great background music as well for when you have company over during the holidays for something different than the usual norms of christmas music (yet just as beautiful as the best of them).

Very, very recommended.