Track Listing

1. Sleigh Ride/Jingle Bells - Al Caiola, Jimmy McGriff, Riz Ortolani
2. Jingle All the Way - Lena Horne
3. Merry Christmas, Baby - Lou Rawls
4. Warm December - Julie London
5. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!/Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Eddie Dunstedter
6. Merriest - June Christy
7. Al I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) - King Cole Trio
8. Christmas Waltz - Nancy Wilson
9. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm/Jing-A-Ling - Les Brown, The Starlighters
10. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Jimmy McGriff
11. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Dean Martin
12. Snowfall/Snowfall Cha-Cha - Billy May, George Shearing
13. Jingle Bell Rock - Wayne Newton
14. Frosty the Snowman - The Ventures
15. Christmas Island - Bob Atcher, The Dinning Sisters
16. Exotic Night - Martin Denny
17. Happy Holiday - Peggy Lee
18. Sleigh Ride/Santa Claus' Party - Les Baxter, Ferrante & Teicher
19. Auld Lang Syne - Guy Lombardo
20. What Is a Santa Claus? - Stan Kenton

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73958 in Music
• Released on: 1997-09-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

Raise Your Holiday SPIRITS!
Leave it to the geniuses at Ultra-Lounge to put together the Christmas Album you always wanted but could never find. This is Christams through an ironic lens. So cleary not "cool" that its ridiculousness makes it so. Very paradoxial. This is Christmas music devoid of any real sentinment but still shiny with a glossy venner of wholesomeness--underneath one can see (as with all lounge music) the seedy side of the 1950's. This IS Cocktail music after all. (Dean Martin ONLY sang Cocktail music, ask his liver!) Highlights of this edition include Mr. Martin's BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE, The delightful Bonus Track "What is a Santa Claus" and Lena Horne's spellbinding JINGLE ALL THE WAY. To hear her sing the word "Horse" with no less than six vowel sounds is worth the price of the album alone. As always the album and jacket art are first rate and the liner notes by RJ SMITH are amoung the best in album commentary EVER! Smith captures the period, the music, and the modern attraction to it in a stylish and comic essay. Once again the Ultra Lounge gives us everything we want from lounge music and more. So sip some spiked egg nog, light the yule log, and have a swinging holiday season.

Let's toast a
Both Vol.1 and Pt.2 of the ULTRA LOUNGE CHRISTMAS series consists of a great musical holiday soundtrack for child raised during the cocktail 1960s.
Upon listening to both CDs, your memories will transport you back in time to tinsel clustered trees drowned in multi-color lights & wasted uncles with a plastic baby jesus' lying under an artificial tree.

This collection of holiday CDs are the perfect tool for entertaining & injecting "kitchy" ambiance into your holiday festivities.
The sound is retro and currently very trendy.

It's fun listening to these long forgotten classics dusted off and delivered in with a "LOUNGE" packaging.

Both volumes should be added into your collection!

Yuletide rolicking nostalgia at its best!
I truly enjoyed listening to the second edition of Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails. The first part got me jumpin', but I couldn't get enough with the second. I have heard the original selections on various Capitol Records Christmas compilations, but to hear it in crystal clear digital remastered versions blew me away! I somewhat missed the cracks and jumps from the vinyl grooves, but it was refreshing to hear the clear sounds of Wayne Newton wail away with the track, "Jingle Bell Rock." Another track, "Warm December", as sung by Julie London, is perfect for slow dancing or a quiet moment in front of the fireplace.

If you like nostalgia and have an itching for the music your parents used to cha cha to, you'll surely enjoy this record. I just couldn't get enough of old Dino and a host of other artists. Let the organ swing and sway and enjoy this yuletide romp.