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	Beach Boys Christmas Harmonies Genres: Special Interest, Pop 2009 Holiday release. The magic of Christmas lies in the sights, the smells and especially the sounds. The music of Christmas is as important as Santa Claus and sleigh bells during the yuletide season and there's no other ... more » « less
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All Artists: Beach Boys
Title: Christmas Harmonies
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Capitol Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 8/25/2009
Genres: Special Interest, Pop
Styles: Holiday & Wedding, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 400000016450, 5099968526122

Synopsis

Album Description

2009 Holiday release. The magic of Christmas lies in the sights, the smells and especially the sounds. The music of Christmas is as important as Santa Claus and sleigh bells during the yuletide season and there's no other act from the Rock era that captured the holiday spirit more than The Beach Boys. Their pure, natural and warm vocals were as comforting as hot cocoa during a snow storm. Christmas Harmonies contains the best of their seasonal recordings including 'Little Saint Nick', 'Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town', 'Santa's Beard', 'White Christmas' and many more. 15 tracks.

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CD Reviews

Fabulous Music, Disappointing Presentation . . . . .

Peter A. Sferra | Sunny California | 11/19/2009

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Every song in this collection is a gem, but the presentation was a HUGE let down. I cannot fathom why Capitol Records chose to use many of the original monophonic recordings of the 1960s material when every holiday track the Beach Boys ever did is now available in glorious stereo. A decade ago, "Ultimate Christmas" gave us superbly remastered stereo versions of everything and the previously unheard lushness only added to the band's incredibly layered vocal arrangements. Why anyone with two functioning ears would choose to hear these works of art in mono at this point is beyond me and I'm puzzled by Capitol's choice to use them. They didn't even bother to "throw the listener a bone" with some previously unreleased holiday bonus track as bait. On top of all that, the packaging leaves much to be desired. While "Ultimate Christmas" provided a beautiful booklet, "Christmas Harmonies" only included a minimal single fold sheet with little information beyond the song titles and their origins. Finally, it's pretty hard to get excited about a fifteen song Beach Boys holiday collection when their own record label once produced one with twenty-six tracks! Seems like we're going backwards on the holiday stuff. Hopefully, the band's fiftieth anniversary will prompt Capitol to show a tad more holiday cheer in December of 2011!"