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Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits: 1955-Present
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Track Listing
- Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
- Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) - Ross Bagdasarian
- Little Drummer Boy - Harry Simeone Chorale,
- Mary's Boy Child - Harry Belafonte, William Lorin
- Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
- Nuttin' for Christmas - Barry Gordon
- Please Come Home for Christmas - Charles Brown
- White Christmas - The Drifters
- Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy,
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #98141 in Music
- Released on: 1989-07-31
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Not all songs are original...
Apart from what other posters have said, not all the singles here are the originals. Most notably, I found out the hard way that "Please Come For Christmas" by Charles Brown is NOT the original 1961 version, but instead a later version recorded by the same artist, and very over-produced. I was rather disappointed, as this was the main reason I bought the CD.
Other than that, the songs are all the originals as we've heard on the radio and such.....
This is my favorite Christmas album ever!
When I was in the third grade, our school chorus sang Jingle Bell Rock for the Christmas program. I wanted to learn that song so badly that my mom went out and bought this for me. I couldn't stand it! I thought that it was the wrong version. But eventually, I grew to love this album. I listened to it all the time through the holiday season, and I lost my tape. My grandma bought me a new one and the following year, I found my old one. To this day, I still listen to and love this album. If you have just one Christmas album in your holiday colection, let it be this one. However, off that note, though I'm sure none of you care, we ended up singing the same sets of songs both years I was allowed to be in chorus, and none of them were Jingle Bell Rock.
Just the Way I Remember Them
I bought this specifically for songs such as "Nuttin' for Christmas" and "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer," and this collection didn't let me down. They sounded exactly the way I remembered them. That's the benefit of buying a Billboard Christmas album; you can be sure the songs will be sung by the original artists and not by poor quality lip-sync people. If you enjoy the songs listed and like them sung by the artists on this list, this is for you.
