Track Listing

1. Silent Night
2. Silver Bells
3. Winter Wonderland
4. Sleigh Ride
5. White Christmas
6. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
7. Marshmallow World
8. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
9. Little Drummer Boy
10. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
11. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
12. Christmas Waltz
13. We Need a Little Christmas
14. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11209 in Music
• Released on: 1993-10-05
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, and Johnny Mathis are the three kings of Christmas song, traditionally speaking. Mathis, with his warm, tender vocal style, touches on 14 songs here that everyone will know, from "Silent Night" to "Sleigh Ride," "Silver Bells" to the Broadway number "We Need a Little Christmas." There probably aren't many homes in America that don't have or haven't heard a Johnny Mathis Christmas song played at one time or another. This 1993 set features Mathis's favorite self-processed renditions of the numerous songs he's recorded over the years, including "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," heard and seen on 1998's Gap holiday ads, with Mathis, seemingly in timeless voice again, crooning like Father Christmas in front of a big, rich orchestra. Wonders never cease. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews

best Mathis Holiday set to get
This is easily the best Johnny Mathis Christmas collection to get. Why? It contains tracks from all of Johnny's previous Christmas outings in 1958, 1963, 1969, and 1986, personally selected by Johnny, and seconded by me as the being the best of those albums.
Mathis' Silver Bells, Sleigh Ride, and Winter Wonderland - from his 1958 album - rank as the definitive versions, as does his 1963 version of A Marshmallow World (Mathis sounds perpetually festive here, whereas Dean Martin merely sounds tipsy on his also well-known version). We Need A Little Christmas, from Mathis' 1986 album, benefits from his added life experience. The words would not have resonated so much feeling had he done it twenty-five years earlier.
The one major omission: Mathis' 1971 recording of Carol Of The Bells. It is available on Rhino's excellent two-disc Home For Christmas.

The best of Mathis' chritsmas collections
The album takes cuts from Mathis' three other christmas albums and digitally remasters them. Thus the sound quality is excellent. Mathis is in absolute best voice and the selections billed as his favorite Christmas hits, are sure to be favorites of yours as well. It's hard to pick what songs his does better than any other on the album as he does a great job on them all. However I must single out It's Beginning to look alot like Christmas and It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year as the best, these might even be classified as his two signature Christmas songs. This album is sure to please everyone and I highly recommend it.

A Holiday Hit
This is a fabulous CD. It puts you right in the holiday mood. I think the selection of songs is far better than his other Christmas CD's. Needless to say, his voice is superb. This is a must have!