SOMETHING FESTIVE
Various Artists
A&M SP 19003
A perennial holiday favorite around here, Something Festive was an LP that A&M sold as part of a promotional deal with B.F. Goodrich. Some are tracks from existing A&M albums, but there are plenty of notable exceptions (noted below).
No CD release on this one, but fortunately this album is readily available on vinyl. It's a good sampling of A&M's roster, but unlike other sampler albums, this one has four tracks not released on another album, and two that are slightly different from their original album version. That's six out of ten tracks here that are unique. Such a deal!
Various Artists
A&M SP 19003
A perennial holiday favorite around here, Something Festive was an LP that A&M sold as part of a promotional deal with B.F. Goodrich. Some are tracks from existing A&M albums, but there are plenty of notable exceptions (noted below).
- Herb Alpert & The TJB: Winter Wonderland (same as the TJB's album version, except the choral introduction is edited off)
- Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66: The Christmas Song (never released on a Brasil '66 album)
- Liza Minnelli: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
- Julius Wechter & Baja Marimba Band: Partridge In A Pear Tree
- We Five: My Favorite Things
- Burt Bacharach: The Bell That Couldn't Jingle (never released on a Bacharach album)
- Pete Jolly: It's The Most Wonderful Time (never released on a Pete Jolly album)
- Claudine Longet: Snow
- Julius Wechter & Baja Marimba Band: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (never released on a BMB album)
- Herb Alpert & The TJB: Jingle Bell Rock (slightly different mix from the original album version--this features a glockenspiel instead of a marimba in the beginning)
No CD release on this one, but fortunately this album is readily available on vinyl. It's a good sampling of A&M's roster, but unlike other sampler albums, this one has four tracks not released on another album, and two that are slightly different from their original album version. That's six out of ten tracks here that are unique. Such a deal!