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| So Cal-style yule! Little Saint Nick, Merry Christmas Baby, The Man With All The Toys, Child Of Winter, Santa's Beard, Bells Of Christmas, etc. |
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| 1 Little Saint Nick |
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| 2 The Man With All the Toys |
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| 3 Santa's Beard |
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| 4 Merry Christmas, Baby |
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| 5 Christmas Day |
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| 6 Frosty the Snowman |
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| 7 We Three Kings of Orient Are |
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| 8 Blue Christmas |
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| 9 Santa Claus Is Coming to Town |
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| 10 White Christmas |
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| 11 I'll Be Home for Christmas |
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| 12 Auld Lang Syne |
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| 13 Little Saint Nick |
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| 14 Auld Lang Syne |
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| 15 Little Saint Nick |
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| 16 Child of Winter (Christmas Song) |
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| 17 Santa's Got an Airplane |
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| 18 Christmas Time Is Here Again |
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| 19 Winter Symphony |
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| 20 (I Saw Santa) Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree |
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| 21 Mele Kalikimaka |
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| 22 Bells of Christmas |
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| 23 Morning Christmas |
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| 24 Toy Drive Public Service Announcement |
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| 25 Dennis Wilson Christmas Message |
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Album Review
With this collection, Capitol has come up with something that has long been missing, a collection of essentially every Christmas recording done by a band that was born to sing this type of music. The CD starts out with the complete 1964 sessions for the "Beach Boys Christmas" album, along with several outtakes and alternate mixes, one of the most interesting being the original 45 mix of the seasonal hit "Little St. Nick," which, with its added celeste, sleigh bells and glockenspiel, is alone worth the price of the CD. In addition to that, this set contains seven tracks from the previously unreleased 1977 Christmas album, that, while not as balanced as the 1964 record, indeed have their charm. One track, Brian Wilson's "Winter Symphony," was initially not intended for the Christmas album (it was originally recorded in 1975-6), but was completed by the group. It is particularly interesting because of the strange dichotomy between the sadness of the music and the pleasant lyric, and it provides another insight to Brian Wilson's creative muse during the 1970s. Several public service announcements and interviews close the disc out. It's a holiday slam-dunk. ~ Matthew Greenwald, All Music Guide
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