What better way to warm up a cold December day than to put on this 1992 Manhattan Transfer CD, The Christmas Album! Very nicely done, this album is actually a departure from a lot of the vocal gymnastics you'd find on your usual Manhattan Transfer recording. Instead, it's a silky smooth collection of holiday tunes, some common, some not so common (including a Beatles' White Album refugee, "Goodnight"). The band and the Transfer swing out on a few tunes (like the "Happy Holidays" medley and "Let It Snow"), but for the most part, ballads dominate. One of my favorite non-Christmas winter tunes, "Snowfall", opens the set. Tony Bennett shows up to lend a hand with "The Christmas Song," and the instrumental arrangements were all done by Johnny Mandel.
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