Low, an indie band from Minnesota, specializes in music moving at the tempo of glaciers, with exquisitely precise two-part harmonies. But the secret ingredient is Cole singing hymns in German and Latin: straining to put across foreign lyrics, you can hear him employing all his professional skill.

Frank Sinatra recorded Christmas albums with everybody from Bing Crosby to his own children, but this 1957 record was his finest Yuletide effort.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This treasure box collects the five EPs from 2001 to 2006 – there's over two hours of music, much of it devotional folk versions of the standards, but including some originals like "That Was the Worst Christmas Ever.

Day to Christmas – Bing Crosby’s 1955 album, ‘Merry Christmas’, is the quintessential LP from the vinyl era. S. of the following products of Russian origin: fish, seafood, non-industrial diamonds, gold, and any other product as may be determined from time to time by the U. Fun fact: This album was released the same year as the Sound of Music film, and it features the song "My Favorite Things" (the song was written for the stage show in 1959).

That approach proves to be remarkably well-suited to Yule standards: when you have to consider every note, even "The Little Drummer Boy" can become an object of astonishing beauty, inspiring a seasonal sense of wonder. As a full-service musical empire, the Motown label released scads of Christmas albums; this double-disc 2009 album collects the highlights, plus spoken seasonal greetings from stars like the Supremes. Days to Christmas – Gene Autry introduced the world to “Rudolph” and “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”. It's a homespun affair, with an emphasis on celestial harmonies – and it was the last album they made before Kate died. The executives hated the choppy animation, the real kids reading the lines, the melancholy tone unsweetened by a laugh track, Linus reciting a Biblical passage, and not least, this piano jazz soundtrack.