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Latest Sinatra Christmas Album Features New Version
of Silent Night
Sinatra music you can also listen to free while you
surf the Web - He's back for one last time.
By Tucker Sutherland, editor
 Dec.
13, 2004 There is no time like the holiday season for feeling
nostalgic and for many senior citizens there is no one that can arouse
this nostalgia better that old Ol Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra. This
season there is a new collection of his Christmas songs that feature a
new recording of Silent Night. We are giving free promotion to this
album The Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection, because we think our
readers will be interested, and because the promoters are providing our
readers a free download you can listen to while you surf the Web.
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The career-spanning album features 18 holiday
classics from pop music's preeminent performer, including three
previously unavailable tracks-highlighted by a very special, brand new
recording of "Silent Night."
Appearing as the final track on the album, "Silent
Night" was built upon Sinatra's last Christmas vocal sessions. The new
arrangement was put together by the great Johnny Mandel and was recorded
in March of this year with Frank Sinatra Jr. conducting an orchestra
featuring a celebrated cast of former Sinatra studio and touring
musicians who gathered to accompany Ol' Blue Eyes on one final
recording.
Prior to laying down his vocal on "Silent Night" in
August 1991, Sinatra had not entered a studio for more than three years.
The original vocal track was recorded for his daughter Nancy and Michael
Lloyd for a project benefiting children's charities and, as she recalls,
"It was an emotional day, because he was doing it for the children. It
is so sweet and tender that it is just heart-wrenching."
The track lay dormant in the Sinatra archive until earlier this year
when Sinatra Enterprises' Charles Pignone enlisted Mandel (who had
helmed Sinatra's very first Reprise session) to supply the arrangement.
An A-list of former Sinatra touring and/or recording musicians play on
the track, including celebrated pianist Bill Miller, guitarists Al Viola
and Ron Anthony, bassists Chuck Berghofer and Jim Hughart, and
percussionist Larry Bunker.
Other recordings on the CD were culled from such
memorable albums as 1964's The Twelve Songs Of Christmas and 1969's The
Sinatra Family Wish You A Merry Christmas, as well as the 1963 various
artists set Christmas Album. THE FRANK SINATRA CHRISTMAS COLLECTION
includes all of Frank's Reprise-era holiday recordings-as well as a pair
of new-to-CD duets that any Sinatra fan would be thrilled to find under
their Christmas tree.
Two all-time holiday favorites are being released
on CD for the first time-"The Christmas Song" and "White Christmas"
(both arranged by the legendary Nelson Riddle and performed with Bing
Crosby)-in versions taken from the 1957 ABC special Happy Holidays With
Bing & Frank, which aired only once, on December 20th of that year.
Crosby and Sinatra also duet on "Go Tell It On The Mountain" and "We
Wish You The Merriest," which were first released on The Twelve Songs Of
Christmas.
THE FRANK SINATRA CHRISTMAS COLLECTION TRACK LIST:
1. "I've Got My Love To Keep Me
Warm"
2. "The Christmas Waltz"
3. "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"
4. "The Little Drummer Boy" (with Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians)
5. "We Wish You The Merriest" (with Bing Crosby and Fred Waring & His
Pennsylvanians)
6. "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
7. "Go Tell It On The Mountain" (with Bing Crosby and Fred Waring & His
Pennsylvanians)
8. "The Christmas Song" (with Bing Crosby)
9. "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" (with Fred Waring & His
Pennsylvanians)
10. "I Wouldn't Trade Christmas" (with Tina, Nancy and Frank Jr. and the
Jimmy Joyce Singers & Orchestra under the direction of Nelson Riddle)
11. "Christmas Memories"
12. "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" (with Tina, Nancy and Frank Jr. and
the Jimmy Joyce Singers & Orchestra under the direction of Nelson
Riddle)
13. "The Bells Of Christmas (Greensleeves)" (with Tina, Nancy and Frank
Jr. and the Jimmy Joyce Singers & Orchestra under the direction of
Nelson Riddle)
14. "An Old Fashioned Christmas" (with Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians)
15. "A Baby Just Like You"
16. "Whatever Happened To Christmas" (with the Jimmy Joyce Singers &
Orchestra under the direction of Nelson Riddle)
17. "White Christmas" (with Bing Crosby)
BONUS TRACK
18. "Silent Night"
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