Sound of Christmas

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Sound of Christmas
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Studio album by
Released1961
RecordedOctober 1961
StudioTer-Mar Recording Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz, Christmas
Length29:05
Label Argo
LP 687
Producer Ralph Bass
Ramsey Lewis chronology
Never on Sunday
(1961)
Sound of Christmas
(1961)
The Sound of Spring
(1962)

Sound of Christmas is an album of Christmas music by the Ramsey Lewis Trio, recorded in 1961 and released on the Argo label. [1] The album rose to No. 8 on the Billboard Christmas LPs chart. [2] Lewis recorded a second seasonal album, More Sounds of Christmas , in 1964.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
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Scott Yanow of AllMusic stated: "This is a pleasing, if rather brief (29 minutes) Christmas jazz album that was originally quite popular... fun and melodic, if not all that unique". [3]

Track listing

  1. "Merry Christmas Baby" (Lou Baxter, Johnny Moore) - 4:04
  2. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) - 2:11
  3. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 2:25
  4. "Christmas Blues" (Skitch Henderson, Ramsey Lewis) - 2:50
  5. "Here Comes Santa Claus" (Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman) - 2:41
  6. "The Sound of Christmas" (Riley Hampton, Lewis) - 2:22
  7. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) - 3:18
  8. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Traditional) - 3:19
  9. "Sleigh Ride" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) - 2:58
  10. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (Frank Loesser) - 3:27

Personnel

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References

  1. Argo Records discography accessed October 8, 2012
  2. Billboard Christmas LPs. Vol. 79. Billboard Magazine. December 9, 1967. p. 92.
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S. "Ramsey Lewis: Sound of Christmas". allmusic.com. AllMusic.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 887. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.