Product Description Lovingly culled from the golden age of mid-century Rhythm & Blues including songs never before available on CD, this 26-track set collection of good-timing Christmas-centric numbers will have everyone raising a cup of cheer. The music runs the full spectrum and is, by turns, exquisitely expressive hear the chilling Christmas in Heaven, by Billy Ward & his Dominoes with R&B idol Jackie Wilson and Just a Lonely Christmas by the Moonglows & Harvey Fuqua and red hot, with stomping workouts like Big Bud s Rock Around the Christmas Tree, The Hepster s Rockin' & Rollin with Santa Claus and Jimmy Butler s Trim Your Tree. It also goes way, way off the beaten track with Babs Gonzales frosty, hepwise proto-rap charmers Be Bop Santa Claus, Watch Them Resolutions and unforgettably brings the reason for the season with stunning spiritual No Room in the Hotel, by the Chosen Gospel Singers, featuring youthful powerhouse Lou Rawls. Marvelous stuff. Review Various Artists, Cool Blue Christmas (Contrast). A treasure trove of vintage blues, R&B, jazz and country has been culled for this series of eight albums spread across nine CDs (available individually on and elsewhere) spanning 1924 to 1963. Anyone who winces at the thought of another faceless version of White Christmas or Jingle Bells will shout Hallelujah! at the availability of Johnny Otis (with Little Esther & Mel Walker) doing Far Away Blues (Xmas Blues), Coleman Hawkins tackling Greensleeves or Bessie Smith belting At the Christmas Ball. A Yuletide gold mine. --LA Times
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