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Best of Burl Ives: 20th Century Masters/The Christmas Collection (Greatest Hits)

Artist: Ives Burl

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    Overture/A Holly Jolly Christmas – Burl Ives 02:26
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    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Burl Ives 02:10
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    White Christmas – Burl Ives 02:10
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    Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem – Burl Ives 02:04
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    Silver Bells – Burl Ives 02:14
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    Twelve Days of Christmas – Burl Ives 04:08
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    Santa Claus Is Coming to Town – Burl Ives 02:10
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    The Little Drummer Boy – Burl Ives 03:17
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    What Child Is This? – Burl Ives 03:08
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    Silver and Gold – Burl Ives 01:45
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    It Came Upon a Midnight Clear – Burl Ives 02:09
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    Winter Wonderland – Burl Ives 02:17
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    I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day – Burl Ives 02:14
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    Silent Night – Burl Ives 02:33
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    A Holly Jolly Christmas – Burl Ives 02:13

This edition in Universal's discount-priced compilation series 20th Century Masters/The Christmas Collection is actually a re-titled reissue of the 1999 collection The Very Best of Burl Ives Christmas. That album, in turn, was drawn from several previous Ives albums, the 1952 set Christmas Day in the Morning, Christmas Eve (1956), Have a Holly Jolly Christmas (1965), and the TV soundtrack Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1966). Ives came to be closely associated with Christmas when he served as narrator for the animated TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1964 and scored a hit with the then-newly written "A Holly Jolly Christmas." But his earlier seasonal recordings had been of a more folk-ish and traditional cast, particularly on the Christmas Eve LP. Appropriately, his Have a Holly Jolly Christmas LP contained cheerier, more pop-oriented fare, and by combining four tracks from the former and seven from the latter with a few other selections, compiler Laura Graven achieves a good blend of different kinds of material. Ives' appealing tenor is what holds it together, however, as he performs the songs with warmth and enthusiasm. William Ruhlmann, Rovi

  • Genre: Folk, Soundtrack, Holiday
  • Category Traditional Folk, Christmas, Sea Shanties, Folk-Pop, Cast Recordings
  • Label: MCA
  • Release Date: September 23, 2003
  • Artist: Ives Burl
  • Additional Artist: Decca Concert Orchestra (Performer)

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  • Online Item #: 11524290
  • Store Item Number (DPCI): 244-05-6675
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