Christmas with Sinatra & Friends
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Released | October 6, 2009 | |||
Recorded | 1950s–1960s, 1975 | |||
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Label | Concord Records | |||
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Christmas with Sinatra & Friends is a 2009 compilation album by Frank Sinatra.
Eight Sinatra songs are taken from A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra and 12 Songs of Christmas. The remaining four tracks feature Rosemary Clooney ("White Christmas"), Mel Tormé ("The Christmas Song [Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire]"), Tony Bennett and Bill Evans ("A Child Is Born"), and Ray Charles and Betty Carter ("Baby, It's Cold Outside").
Track listing
[edit]- "The Christmas Waltz" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)
- "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie)
- "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (Bob Wells, Mel Tormé)
- "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johnny Marks)
- "The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis)
- "A Child Is Born" (Thad Jones, Mel Lewis)
- "Mistletoe and Holly" (Hank Sanicola, Frank Sinatra, Doc Stanford)
- "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" (Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen)
- "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin)
- "Whatever Happened to Christmas?" (Jimmy Webb)
- "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (Frank Loesser)
- "Christmas Memories" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Don Costa)
Personnel
[edit]- Tony Bennett - Track 6
- Betty Carter - Track 11
- Ray Charles - Track 11
- Rosemary Clooney - Track 9
- Bill Evans - Track 6
- Frank Sinatra - Tracks 1-2, 4-5, 7-8, 10, 12
- Mel Tormé - Track 3
- Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians - 4-5, 8
- The Jimmy Joyce Singers - Tracks 1, 10