More Sounds of Christmas

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More Sounds of Christmas
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Released1964
RecordedOctober 14 & 15, 1964
StudioUniversal Recording Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz, Christmas
Label Argo
LP 745
Producer Esmond Edwards
Ramsey Lewis chronology
The Ramsey Lewis Trio at the Bohemian Caverns
(1964)
More Sounds of Christmas
(1964)
You Better Believe Me
(1964)

More Sounds of Christmas is an album of Christmas music by Ramsey Lewis' Trio featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and released on the Argo label. [1] The album is Lewis' second Christmas album following Sound of Christmas (Argo, 1961).

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Reception

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Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "Again hampered by strings on too many cuts, on the plus side, this does contain the ultra-cool original, "Eggnog," featuring Lewis on celeste". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Snowbound" (Clarence Kehner, Russell Faith) – 3:37
  2. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Traditional) – 2:43
  3. "Egg Nog" (Ramsey Lewis) – 3:28
  4. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) – 2:30
  5. "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont) – 2:33
  6. "Plum Puddin'" (Eldee Young) – 2:58
  7. "Snowfall" (Claude Thornhill) – 2:08
  8. "We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins, Jr.) – 4:01
  9. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 4:22
  10. "The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Kennicott Davis, Harry Simeone, Henry Onorati) – 2:26

Personnel

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References

  1. Argo Records discography accessed October 10, 2012
  2. 1 2 MacDonald, D. Allmusic Review accessed October 10, 2012