The Christmas Song [LP]

by Nat King Cole

Overview

First issued in the early '60s, this collection of musical Christmas cheer is packed full of the smoothly sung, sentimental favorites associated as much with Nat King Cole himself as with the season. The singer's performance of "The Christmas Song" is an unforgettable classic reprised here twice, once in an updated version that includes a contemporary vocal from his daughter, Natalie, and also in Cole's original 1946 recording. Other traditional religious favorites like "I Saw Three Ships" and "Away in a Manger" are also featured, in a setting that, with its well-arranged orchestral accompaniment, manages to sound both sophisticated and folksy. ~ Steve Goulding

Product Details

Release Date:	09/30/2014
Label:	Capitol
UPC:	0602537945580
Rank:	3504

Tracks

1. The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
2. Deck the Hall
3. O Come All Ye Faithful
4. O Tannenbaum
5. O Little Town of Bethlehem
6. I Saw Three Ships
7. O Holy Night
8. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
9. A Cradle in Bethlehem
10. Away in a Manger
11. Joy to the World
12. The First Noel
13. Caroling, Caroling
14. Silent Night

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nat King Cole   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals
Nat King Cole Trio   Primary Artist
Natalie Cole   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Anthony Hamilton   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
The Starlighters   Primary Artist
Nat King Cole & His Trio   Primary Artist
Bob Krogstad   Conductor
Ralph Carmichael   Conductor

Technical Credits

Alfred Bryan   Composer
Paul Atkinson   Executive Producer
Traditional   Composer
Lowell Mason   Composer
Bob Krogstad   Arranger
Natalie Cole   Musician,Performer
Brad Benedict   Producer
Isaac Watts   Composer
John Reading   Composer
Larry Stock   Composer
Freddie Salem   Producer
Felix Mendelssohn   Composer
Carl Mueller   Composer
Charles Wesley   Composer
Lee Gillette   Producer
Franz Gruber   Composer
Wihla Hutson   Composer
Joseph Mohr   Composer
Nat King Cole   Arranger,Composer,Adaptation
Phillip Brooks   Composer
Ralph Carmichael   Composer
Mel Torme   Composer
Adolphe Adam   Composer
John Francis Wade   Composer
Anthony Hamilton   Musician
Bob Norberg   Remixing,Digital Remastering
Frederick Oakeley   Composer
George Frederick Handel   Composer
Robert Wells   Composer
Edith Bergdahl   Arranger,Composer,Adaptation
Frank Linale   Composer
George Friedrich   Composer
William Sandys   Composer
Cathy Lynn   Composer
Donald Gardner   Composer
Cindy Malig   Producer
Dick Lapalm   Liner Notes
James R. Murray   Composer
Stephen Walker   Design
Carlin Mueller   Composer
Lewis Redner   Composer
Bob Saffer   Composer
Denise Skinner   Project Coordinator
John Sullivan Dwight   Composer
J. Reading   Composer
Martin Luther   Composer
Alfred S. Burt   Composer
Spoken Word   Composer
Alfred Burt   Composer