So I am beginning my Christmas Music playlist for this year (yes, I am starting early, I know :blush: ). I was wondering if anyone here knows if Sammy Davis Jr. ever recorded a Christmas album. He did 2 songs I know of, as they are on my Christmas With the Rat Pack cd, but I wonder if he had a complete LP out there somewhere.
That Rat Pack Christmas CD is awesome, though. Dean Martin has a pretty good solo Christmas album called "Making Spirits Bright," and Frank Sinatra has one called "The Christmas Collection." Both are good albums.
If you find a solo Sammy, please post it here because I'd like to get it as well.
madcougar
09-24-08, 02:54 PM
Wasn't he Jewish? Then again so is Kenny G I guess.
DJLinus
09-24-08, 04:04 PM
That Rat Pack Christmas CD is awesome, though. Dean Martin has a pretty good solo Christmas album called "Making Spirits Bright," and Frank Sinatra has one called "The Christmas Collection." Both are good albums.
I'll second those. Next to Johnny Mathis' Merry Christmas and Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas, Dean Martin's album is my favorite. I just wish Martin had a definitive Christmas collection. Making Spirits Bright is excellent, but there are at least two other albums - Christmas with Dino and Seasons Greeting from Dean Martin - that contain a lot of overlap, but also have songs that Spirits doesn't.
Although, nowadays, I listen to most of my music on my iPod, so that's less of an issue and I can create my own "definitive collection."
Wasn't he Jewish? Then again so is Kenny G I guess.
So's Neil Diamond and he put out some Christmas albums, too. Whatever makes $$$. :)
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