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I love that one, too!
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Dec 13, 2024 - 3:50 PM
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igger6
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This is my all-time favorite Christmas album and an absolute masterpiece, especially considering that Connick not only sang the bejesus out of every track in multiple styles (young Sinatra songbook crooner, N'Awlins partier, and reverent hymn-singer) but arranged the whole thing and composed three or four great new songs as well. ("It Must Have Been Ol' Santa Claus" alone deserves a whole 'nother thread.) Connick never quite reached these heights again, although his second Christmas album, "Harry for the Holidays," has much to recommend it as well. I actually think the attempt to present him as Sinatra 2.0 serves the album well, since his orchestral arranging is stunning here, and it never really got the chance to shine again after he leaned further into the Big Easy side of his background in later years. (As a child, I used to think of part of his idiosyncratic "O Holy Night" arrangement as "the Star Wars part" because it reminded me of JW's Tatooine music.)
If you can track it down, his 1993 Christmas special really nails down the aw-shucks, early-Sinatra persona in places. It's the one advertised below, and it includes a few swingin' arrangements that didn't make it to the album and aren't available elsewhere ("All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" and an instrumental "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" among them).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwywic95ypQ
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