Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons: The 4 Seasons' Christmas Album CD Track Listing

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Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons The 4 Seasons' Christmas Album (1966)
The 4 Seasons' Christmas Album\nFrankie Valli & The 4 Seasons\n\nOriginally Released November 1966\nRhino CD Edition Released October 29, 2002\nCurb CD Edition Released October 29, 2002\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Their best-selling Christmas classic, it includes the great rocker, "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." "Joy to the World Medley" is a surprise treat. (The 4 Seasons' Christmas Album is a Philips Records reissue of the December 1962 Vee Jay Records LP, The Four Seasons' Greetings. Rhino Records later reissued it a second time, again under the title The 4 Seasons' Christmas Album.) -- David A. Milberg\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nChristmas Wouldn't Be The Same Without This Album, January 4, 2005 \nReviewer: MirSyd (Winfield, WV USA) \nMy children grew up listening to this album. We always had to play this while we were trimming the tree. I had no idea that both of my children considered this album part of our "Christmas Tradition". I finally found it on CD and this year my daughter asked to borrow my CD for my 5 year old granddaughter. She fell in love with it. My son's 4 year old daughter begged to hear Jungle Bells over and over. Needless to say, I ordered both granddaughters a CD of their own. I'm quite sure their parents are enjoying it too. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nDelightful Stuff, December 1, 2003 \nReviewer: A music fan (Ohio, USA) \nThis is, unequivocally, one of the most enjoyable Christmas albums ever produced by a pop/rock outfit. The first seven tracks, which constituted side one of the old vinyl album, is for all practical purposes a Christmas symphony: It fuses together shorter and longer renditions of traditional Christmas songs (most being nonsecular), with appropriate orchestration and the Seasons' incomparable vocal magic. Check out Frankie's soaring falsetto over his bandmates' midrange harmonies on "Estelsis Deo"; it'll send chills down your spine. "What Child Is This" is a beauty, as a previous reviewer noted, and the other three group members get to shine on a cheerful take of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen." Too many little treasures here to list 'em all. The second half of the album is arranged a bit more conventionally: Six songs more spaced, with more straight pop instrumentation not unlike many of the early Seasons classics. Herein lie the two tracks which get played on the radio at Christmastime: "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"--but equally notable is "Jungle Bells," a genuinely fun song that your kids'll go ga-ga over--and so will you! There's not much here in the way of liner notes, not surprising given the cd's very budget price--but really, the music's all the liner notes you need. We were out cruising in the snow the other night, and I turned a couple friends on to this album who had never heard it before, and they both loved it. Frankie, Mick, Tommy and the obscenely underrated talent Bob Gaudio produced a real slice of holiday magic on this album, and especially at this bargain basement price, you cannot and will not go wrong buying it. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nAn all-time favorite!, November 11, 2002\nReviewer: Carol Lehr (Sheridan, IN USA) \nThis was the first Christmas album I ever received and, arguably, my favorite. Traditional carols beautifully done in that unique Four Seasons' style and a few un-traditional ones for a bit of spice. For anyone who grew up in the 60s and 70s a definite MUST but great for all.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nGreat Christmas Album, August 17, 2002\nReviewer: geatornez82 "Cartoon Connoisseur" (Germantown, MD United States) Being addicted to the Four Seasons, I had to get this album. It is a mix between traditional Christmas classics, and fun Christmas songs. Although during two or three of the traditional songs, Frankie Valli hits a couple of clinkers when he breaks into his falsetto, but not much.\nThe medleys are well balanced, and beautifully transitioned between one song and another. But my favorite songs on this albums were the one fun Christmas songs, such as "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (which is my favorite version of this particular song), "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" (with Frankie singing in his falsetto all throughout the song), and "Christmas Tears" which is virtually new to me. Another song that was new to me was "Jungle Bells" (the track listing on-line makes a mistake and credits it as "Jingle Bells"). "Jungle Bells" is easilly defined as a novelty song, where Santa Claus visits the jungle and is giving presents to all the animals. It's really cute and funny.\n\nThis album is also the hardest Four Seasons album to find, and could possibly become one of my all time favorite Christmas CD's, and it could become one of your family's too.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nGreat Music, December 13, 2001\nReviewer: Tara Figurski (Gahanna, Ohio United States) \nThis is the best Christmas album I have ever heard. I grew up in the 70s listening to the sounds of Franklin Valli every Christmas Day. The traditional favorites are here as well as some fun music like Jungle Bells (Santa visits the jungle) and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. A must have for your Christmas collection.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nFour Seasons Christmas album is great!, November 24, 1999\nReviewer: A music fan\nI love it, love it, LOVE IT! Whoever said the album is a disaster doesn't know what they're talking about! All the songs are wonderful! They sing so beautifully! I got the cassette from the library, and I especially love the medleys on the one side and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" on the other. I'm going to order a copy of it for my very own for the holidays this year!\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nI've loved this album since I was a child (early 70's), August 26, 1999\nReviewer: A music fan\nI have the original album my parents got in 1966? and it is my favorite at Christmas. One song got damaged a few years back, and I would like to find it on CD or cassette (or fat chance finding it--another album). As far as the one review's comment about "Jungle Bells", that's one of my favorites, because it is completely different than any other Christmas song made at the time. It's not SUPPOSED to be a remake of "Jingle Bells" -- it's different. Now I'm 40 and would like MY kids (both preschoolers) to grow up with it also. It's funny and entertaining, but also serious and soulful. A GREAT piece of work for all ages and times.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nSeasonally Yours, this is better than you think!, June 24, 1999\nReviewer: "mcfadaia" (PA USA) \nI bought this as an LP in 1966, and I was knocked over. Now that I have it on CD, its the first Christmas album played for the Holidays. "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is a classic rock Christmas song. And, "Santa Claus is Coming To Town" is the highest charted version ever. If you can find it, grap it up, despite the other review.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nTheir one and only bad album, November 27, 1998\nReviewer: A music fan\nHaving been a major 4 Seasons fan for about 35 years; I picked up their Christmas album on cassette a few years back and boy, was I disappointed! Frankie & the boys massacred these Christmas songs, for some reason his usually fantastic falsetto doesn't do much justice to either the traditional or secular songs. And instead of Jingle Bells, they sing "Jungle Bells"! Gimme a break, FAST! Definitely a waste of time and money.\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Bob Crewe \n\nAlbum Notes\nThe Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Bob Long.\nAll tracks have been digitally remastered.\n\nThis 1962 effort has been reissued a couple of times with a couple of titles, but the bottom line is that it's one of the best-ever pop-rock Christmas albums, right up there with A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU FROM PHIL SPECTOR and the Beach Boys' CHRISTMAS ALBUM. It is a bit more traditional than either of those (translation: It rocks out only sporadically), but given the Season's vocal approach, there's something ineffably and wonderfully weird about hearing them sing, say, "The Excelsis Deo Medley"; this could easily be a bunch of Benedectine monks on helium. In any case, it's all but impossible to resist their great Jersey doo-wop take on "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" or a version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" done a la "Big Girls Don't Cry." Essential stuff.
This rock cd contains 13 tracks and runs 35min 9sec.
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