Christmas Blues

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Christmas Blues
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EP by
Released1989
RecordedInception Sound
Genre Jazz
Length11:48
Label Alert Records
Producer Holly Cole Trio
Holly Cole chronology
Christmas Blues
(1989)
Girl Talk
(1990)

Christmas Blues is an EP, the first recording by the Holly Cole Trio. It was released in 1989 on Alert Records in Canada. It is notable for the Jazz cover of The Pretenders' "2,000 Miles"

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Christmas Blues" (Sammy Cahn, David Jack Holt) – 2:54
  2. "Two Thousand Miles" (Chrissie Hynde) – 3:32
  3. "Please Come Home for Christmas" (Brown, Redd) – 3:04
  4. "I'd Like to Hitch a Ride With Santa Claus" (Burke, VanHeusen) – 2:18

Personnel

Year-end charts

Chart (2001)Position
Canadian (Nielsen SoundScan) [1] 138

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References

  1. "Canada's Top 200 Singles of 2001". Jam! . Archived from the original on July 26, 2002. Retrieved March 28, 2022.