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Old Time Christmas
Brothers Figaro
Old Time Christmas
Genres: Folk, Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Classical
 
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Luigi and Giuseppe Figaro have teamed up again to make a unique Christmas record, unlike anything you've heard before. Inspired by Big Band recordings by Tommy Dorsey from 1939, as well as Beatles perennials "Honey Pie" an...  more »

     
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All Artists: Brothers Figaro
Title: Old Time Christmas
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: The Orchard
Original Release Date: 11/25/2003
Release Date: 11/25/2003
Genres: Folk, Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Classical
Styles: Holiday & Wedding, Vocal Pop, Folk Rock, Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 803680309124

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Luigi and Giuseppe Figaro have teamed up again to make a unique Christmas record, unlike anything you've heard before. Inspired by Big Band recordings by Tommy Dorsey from 1939, as well as Beatles perennials "Honey Pie" and "When I'm 64", this collection of Christmas favorites has a haunting, nostaligic flavor that will surely infuse your holiday season with sacred mystery.
 

CD Reviews

Non-smaltzy Holiday music
Andrew R. Briggs | ...in the fair and distant state of Oregon | 09/15/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Imagine it's 1934, christmas eve, and you're doing your last-minute holiday shopping. The sales staff is exhausted and want you to go home, and you are exhausted and want to go home but have more shopping to do.



That's when you hear it ~the music drifting up from the main lobby, and you follow the sound.



The Brother's Figaro would be the band brought in by store management for christmas cheer. Dispassionate, professional, clean, with a sound that evokes tinny speakers and different cadences ~ to my ear, 1930's and a Jimmy Cagney swagger. It's as if they're singing songs of Christmas knowing the soup-line starts outside.



And this may be an acquired taste, but I find these covers of Christmas classics refreshing - songs I've heard repeatedly as background noise hundreds of times ~ yet this time, I listen. I don't want to sing along ~ I want to figure out who's doing the singing."