The Ventures - The Ventures' Christmas Album

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/60/38/d96f7220eca0d4854d4d7010.L.jpg Title: The Ventures' Christmas Album Artist: The Ventures Audio CD (October 17, 1995) Original Release Date: November 1965 Number of Discs: 1 Genre: Christmas Format: Format: Free Lossless Audio Codec Track Listing: 01. Sleigh Ride 02. Snow Flakes 03. Santa Claus is Comin' to Town 04. Jingle Bells 05. Jingle Bell Rock 06. Silver Bells 07. Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer 08. Frosty the Snowman 09. Scrooge 10. Blue Christmas 11. We Wish You a Merry Christmas 12. White Christmas Amazon Review: Ah, this is jingle bell rock the way it's supposed to be, with driving guitars, splashy drums, and full stereo separation. The Ventures' Christmas Album just might be the best rock & roll holiday record ever made. The instrumental twang kings deliver pretty much what you'd expect--note-for-note renditions of standards, all dressed up with ubiquitous sleigh bells as well as the requisite reverb. What really makes this disc a blast though is the way the quartet weaves 1960s pop signatures into every tune; warping "Woolly Bully" into "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," "I Feel Fine" into "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and so on. Spin this and let your party guests have fun guessing which hit single will morph into a Christmas classic. Allmusic Review: Twelve Yuletide standards along the lines of "White Christmas," "Frosty the Snowman," and "Sleigh Ride." All are arranged more or less along the lines of the classic early Ventures sound, with quotes from Ventures songs like "Walk Don't Run" thrown in, as well as phrases from contemporary hits like "I Feel Fine" and "When You Walk in the Room." If not for the ubiquitous overdubs of annoyingly corny sleigh bells, this would rank among the better rock & roll X-mas albums. But apparently the producers couldn't resist watering down the band's trademark sleek guitar-bass-drums lineup with seasonal flavor

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swampmatt (2010-11-30)

Thanks for this.... "Sleigh Ride" is just about the most awesome tune **EVER**!!!!!!