Product Description

The Brian Setzer Orchestra has established a new standard by which holiday albums are judged. They struck a major chord with audiences everywhere and catapulted the super-charged 18 piece Big Band into a Christmas franchise via their annual sold out holiday tour. This magnificent collection is a combination of the very best tracks from their two holiday releases, paired with two previously unreleased tracks plus two seasonal selections from his 2007 materpiece Wolfgang's Big Night Out.

Track Listing

1. Jingle Bells
2. Gettin in the Mood (For Christmas)
3. Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
4. Nutcracker Suite [Instrumental]
5. You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
6. Dig That Crazy Santa Claus
7. Winter Wonderland
8. (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man with the Bag
9. Angels We Have Heard on High
10. White Christmas
11. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
12. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Ann-Margret, Brian Setzer Orchestra
13. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
14. My Favorite Things [Instrumental]
15. Jingle Bell Rock
16. Sleigh Ride
17. Santa Drives a Hot Rod
18. Christmas Island
19. Bach's Bounce [Instrumental]
20. Take a Break Guys [Instrumental]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106995 in Music
• Released on: 2008-10-07
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Even the Grinch would rock out to this CD
Let's face it, more than a few of us need a little Prozac during the holidays and this disk might just be the ticket. Brian Setzer does a very upbeat Christmas.

This is a compilation of his previous two Christmas CDs, so if you have them, you may not 'need' this one. I have one of the two, so I felt free to buy.

Favorites:

Jingle Bell Rock
Is that you, Santa Claus

To add to all of this, the CD is a very generous 20 tracks which is about twice what we are getting now in this age of iTunes and packaged disks.

Rebecca Kyle, December 2008

Setzer's Annual Christmas Visit - It Swings!
The Brian Sezter Orchestra have come to associate themselves closely with the Chrismas Holidays, having recorded two Christmas CD's and making an annual Christmas concert tour.

This latest offering is, as the subtitle implies, a "Best Of" collection, along with a couple of new tracks. For those that don't have the BSO's previous two Christmas discs, this is a nice compilation of some of the best of the two.

The whole thing is upbeat fun, with Setzer and the boys delivering updated swing versions of some Christmas chestnuts as well as a few original tracks. Could there have been some changes in the track list? I think so, but overall, this is a solid set. The weakest of the tracks has to be "Baby, It's Cold Outside", which features a well past her prime Ann Margaret, who really detracts from what otherwise is one cool yule tune.

I would have liked to have seen some of the "Bonus Tracks" that were found on subsequent re-issues of the BSO's previous Christmas CDs make their way to this compliation, including "Run, Run Rudolph" and "Cactus Christmas". The version of "Jingle Bells" found on this compilation is the one recorded for "Boogie Woogie Christmas" CD.....The version recorded for the movie Jingle All The Way is the superior version, and that would have been a welcome addition to this CD, as would the instrumental version found on the obsure "Merry Axemas" CD.

Is this disc essential? No, especially if you already have the previous two BSO Holiday discs. With a few changes to the track listing, however, that assessment would be different. That being said, this is a great one disc set that will keep the Christmas Holidays "Wild, Cool, & Swingin'!"

Setzer's Christmas Tunes Totally Rock!
This is quite simply the best Christmas album out there. Our family has owned the other 2 Brian Setzer Christmas CD's, "Dig That Crazy Christmas" and "Boogie Woogie Christmas", and we listen to them non-stop during the holidays every year. This new release pretty much takes the best 20 songs and puts them all in one place at an insanely low price (especially for the MP3 version --I love AMAZON!). You can't go wrong with this one!!