Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails

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Label: CAPITOL
Catalog: 525592
Format: CD

1. Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1996 - Remaster) 2. Winter Wonderland (1996 - Remaster) 3. Christmas Trumpets / We Wish You A Very Merry Christmas (Medley) (1996 - Remaster) 4. Christmas Is (1996 - Remaster) 5. Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town / White Christmas (Medley) (1996 - Remaster) 6. I'd Like You For Christmas (1996 - Remaster) 7. Holiday On Skis (1996 Digital Remaster) 8. (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag (1996 - Remaster) 9. Jingle Bells / Jingle Bell Rock (Medley) (1996 - Remaster) 10. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (1996 - Remaster) 11. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus/Jingle Bells Bossa Nova (Medley) (1996 - Remaster) 12. Christmas Kisses (1996 - Remaster) 13. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? (1996 - Remaster) 14. I'll Be Home For Christmas / Baby, It's Cold Outside (Medley) (1996 - Remaster) 15. Cha-Cha All The Way (1996 - Remaster) 16. The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) (1996 - Remaster) 17. The Nutcracker Suite (1996 - Remaster) 18. Ring Those Christmas Bells (1996 - Remaster) 19. Violets For Your Furs (1996 - Remaster) 20. Toys For Tots (1996 - Remaster) 21. Jingle Bells (1996 - Remaster)

A perfect martini-and-mistletoe combo, Christmas Cocktails will gaily seduce you with its bevy of nostalgic and occasionally campy holiday fare. Vocal vixens Peggy Lee, Julie London (her "I'd Like You for Christmas" will melt the ice cubes in your fridge), Kay Starr and Nancy Wilson join forces with perennial crooners such as Lou Rawls, Dean Martin and the immortal Nat "King" Cole, along with a handful of instrumental big-band numbers and odd, at times cheese-ball-shaped jazz organ pieces from Jimmy McGriff and the flammable Eddie Dundstedter, among others. But the essential item that makes plunking down your pelts for this very chi-chi set is none other than Billy May's lovably kitschy workout called "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo"--it's a scream. The package comes complete with its own cocktail minimanual and the recipes for Hot Toddys and Hot Tom and Jerrys. Garishly retro and naughtily nostalgic, this kind of slinky Christmas gift should probably be illegal in many prudish countries. --Martin Keller

Price: $18.98