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Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Our Very Best Christmas
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, R&B, Classical

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Smokey Robinson, Coots, J. Fred
2. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Smokey Robinson, Cahn, Sammy
3. Christmas Everyday - Smokey Robinson, Robinson, Smokey
4. I'll Be Home for Christmas - Smokey Robinson, Gannon, Kim
5. Noel - Smokey Robinson, Traditional
6. O Holy Night - Smokey Robinson, Adam, Adolphe
7. Deck the Halls/Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella - Smokey Robinson, Traditional
8. I Can Tell When Christmas Is Near - Smokey Robinson, Wonder, Stevie
9. I Believe in Christmas Eve - Smokey Robinson, Robinson, Smokey
10. The Christmas Song - Smokey Robinson, Torme, Mel
11. Jingle Bells - Smokey Robinson, Pierpont, James
12. It's Christmas Time - Smokey Robinson, Wonder, Stevie
13. Go Tell It on the Mountain - Smokey Robinson, Traditional
14. Away in a Manger/Coventry Carol - Smokey Robinson, Traditional
15. Peace on Earth (Good Will Toward Men) - Smokey Robinson, Roach
16. Christmas Lullaby - Smokey Robinson, Johnson, Terry [1]

CD Details

All Artists: Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Title: Our Very Best Christmas
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Motown
Original Release Date: 10/12/1999
Release Date: 10/12/1999
Album Type: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, R&B, Classical
Styles: Holiday & Wedding, Vocal Pop, Classic R&B, Motown, Soul, Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 601215335620

Synopsis

Amazon.com

Updated in stereo for this 1999 reissue, these Christmas cuts come mainly from 1963, with two Tamla album selections from '68 and '70 added. This Motown superstar's Christmas album is really a showcase for Robinson's timeless voice. Warm and romantic, Smokey Robinson is a consummate singer, a pharaoh of the falsetto and alto ranges who owns one of the 1960s' truly golden throats; when he sings all the other Miracles seem to fade into the mix. Robinson's lyrically rich version of the Stevie Wonder-penned "It's Christmas Time" highlights a 16-song collection of familiar seasonal fare and public-service greetings. Boomers who remember this from their lives as kids may want to share it with their children or their children's children, if only to commemorate the singing genius of that other Mr. Robinson. --Martin Keller

CD Reviews

Smokey At His Very Best

Brian Henley | Hamilton Ontario Canada | 12/03/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Not only is this an excellent Christmas album, with very strong Christian overtones, it is also a collection of some of Smokey Robinson's finest vocal performances. The sound of both the earlier and the latter albums, which were combined for this reissue, is remarkably clean and yet warm. Add in a thoughful packaging effort and you have one of the best Christmas releases of the season."