Coming this Holiday Season
| Chris Standring & Kathrin Shorr - Send Me Some Snow |
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Someone's Gonna Get Something (For Christmas)
I Got A Thing For Jack
Christmas Ain't Christmas Without You
Naughty Or Nice
Dear Santa
Mistletoe Moon
Christmas In Tinseltown
There's No Time Like Christmas Time
Through The Holidays
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| One of contemporary urban jazz's most popular artists since the late 90s, Guitarist Chris Standring teams up with songstress Kathrin Shorr (Sweet Talk Radio) to present a stellar old school sounding, romantic flavored album of original vocal compositions, complete with lush string arrangements and sentimental holiday feelings. For more information click here. |
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| Santa Claus Is Coming To Town |
| Send Me Some Snow |
| We Three Kings Of Orient Are |
| I Saw Three Ships |
| The Little Drummer Boy |
| Jingle Bells |
| Rejoice |
| Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella |
| Feliz Navidad |
| It’s Feeling Like Christmas |
| Silent Night |
| Auld Lang Syne |
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| Various - Share The Gifts |
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Joyce Cooling - It's Feeling Like Christmas
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Share The Gifts: Wishing you all the holly and jolly of the season, A Train Digital presents Share the Gifts, the latest installment of the A Train Tracks series, highlighting the best of our catalog. Share the Gifts compiles 12 holiday-themed tracks, including new takes on traditional favorites like 'Feliz Navidad' and "The Little Drummer Boy." Also included are two originals, Joyce Cooling's "It's Feeling Like Christmas" and the world debut of "Send Me Some Snow," written and performed by Chris Standring and Kathrin Shorr.
Featured Single: "It's Feeling Like Christmas", the new holiday tune by the Bay Area's premier guitarist Joyce Cooling was named Song of the Month for the International Review of Music in December of 2009. Don Heckman, former music critic for the Los Angeles Times, calls it a song that transcends any particular style or genre - a song that will always sound both contemporary and timeless...as soon as I heard "It's Feeling Like Christmas," I knew it was exactly the kind of song we're continually looking for. Read the full review here and watch the video.
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A Tale of Two White Christmases
Irving Berlin may have composed what he calls “the best song that anyone has ever written”, but it was Bing Crosby that made it ubiquitous in the 1942 musical Holiday Inn when his duet with Marjorie Reynolds received the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Two years later, Ol’ Blue Eyes' version of “White Christmas” made it his very own. Aside from the title song, the track listings on these two albums are quite different, so you should mark them both on your wish list (if you’ve been nice, that is).
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| White Christmas |
| Adeste Fideles |
| Silver Bells |
| Medley: Deck The Halls; Away In A Manger;
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O Little Town Of Bethlehem; The First Noel |
| Silent Night |
| Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer |
| God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen |
| Sleigh Ride In July |
| I'll Be Home For Christmas |
| Faith Of Our Fathers |
| Santa Claus Is Coming To Town |
| Here Comes Santa Claus |
| Happy Holiday |
| Jingle Bells |
| You're All I Want For Christmas |
| The First Noel |
| The Twelve Days Of Christmas |
| Let's Start The New Year Right |
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| Jingle Bells |
| O Come All Ye Faithful |
| Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas |
| Mistletoe And Holly |
| While The Angelus Was Ringing |
| Santa Claus Is Coming To Town |
| Hark The Herald Angels Sing |
| The Christmas Song |
| Christmas Medley |
| Over The Rainbow |
| Ave Maria |
| Let's Start The New Year Right |
| The Lord's Prayer |
| Christmas Dreaming |
| Light A Candle In The Chapel |
| It Came Upon A Midnight Clear |
| Winter Wonderland |
| White Christmas |
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| Bing Crosby- White Christmas |
| Frank Sinatra- White Christmas
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Christmas With The Stars
Stan Getz Orchestra plays “Frosty the Snowman”. Need I say more? Okay, just in case you’re not experiencing nostalgic bliss yet, here are a few more ways to frost your snow globe:
 | Bing Crosby - White Christmas
Perry Como - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Frank Sinatra - Christmas Dreaming
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Jingle Bells
Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song
Judy Garland - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Gene Autry - Here Comes Santa Claus
Perry Como - Winter Wonderland
Eddy Duchin - The Night Before Christmas
Vaughan Monroe - Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Bernie Cummins - I Told Santa Claus To Bring Me You
Milton Cross & Rossario Bourdon - T'was The Night Before Christmas
Various Artists - Harry Reser and His Orchestra - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians - Nutcracker Suite Part 1
Spike Jones - My Two Front Teeth
Jimmy Ray - The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
Mel Tormé - What Are You Doing New Years Eve
The Andrews Sisters & Guy Lombardo - Christmas Island
Bing Crosby - Let's Start The New Year Right
Guy Lombardo - Auld Lang Syne |
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Jimmy Ray - The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
Mel Tormé - What Are You Doing New Years Eve
The Andrews Sisters & Guy Lombardo - Christmas Island
Bing Crosby - Let's Start The New Year Right
Guy Lombardo - Auld Lang Syne
Dean Martin - It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas
Bing Crosby - Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer
Nat King Cole - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Mario Lanza - Ave Maria
Frank Sinatra - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
The Platters - Hey Santa Claus
Rosemary Clooney - Little Drummer Boy
Bing Crosby - Twelve Days of Christmas
Gene Aurtry - Frosty the snowman
Dick Haymes - White Christmas
Judy Garland - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Mahalia Jackson - Oh My Lord What A Morning
Anne Shelton - Away in a manger
Rosemary Clooney - Silver Bells
Johnny Mercer - Winter Wonderland
Vera Lynn - The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
Peggy Lee - The Christmas Song
Mario Lanza - The Lord's Prayer
Bing Crosby - The First Noel
Dean Martin - Silent Night
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Doris Day - The Christmas Song
Perry Como - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Peggy Lee - Winter Weather
Mel Torme - What Are You Doing New Years Eve
Gene Autry - Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer
Ernest Tubb - Blue Christmas
Danny Kaye - Santa Claus Is On His Way
Milton Cross - T'was The Night Before Christmas
Josef Locke - Silent Night Champion
Jack Dupree - Santa Claus Blues
Count Basie - Good Morning Blues
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli - Christmas Swing
Stan Getz - Frosty the Snowman
Fats Walker - Jingle Bells
Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee - Little Jack Frost Got Lost
Sammy Kaye with Patty Andrews - All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
Nat King Cole - Mrs. Santa Claus
Nat King Cole - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
VaGracie Fields and The Ray Noble Orchestra - Christmas Bells At Eventide
Nat King Cole - A House With Love In It
Dinah Shore - Auld Lang Syne
Bing Crosby - White Christmas
Frank Sinatra - Hark The Herald Angels Sing |
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Something for the Aussies
| Feeling Traditional? |
| Doolan, McRae & Bogart - The Best Aussie Christmas
The Goanna Gang - Christmas For Aussie Kids
Murdo McRae, Adam Lopez & Marc Tewksbury - Wonderful Christmas Time: Santa's Top 20
Murdo McRae - The Best Ever Christmas Megamix
South Brisbane Temple Band - Christmas With The Salvation Army
Steve Newcomb Trio - Christmas Cocktails |
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Viva La Music Quartet - O Come All Ye Faithful
Vocal Manoeuvres - Silent Night: A Festive Collection of Christmas Carols
Various Artists - Hark The Herald Angels Sing: Classic Christmas Choirs
Jorge Rico - Christmas Panpipe Moods: Winter Wonderland
Viva La Musica Celtic Ensemble - A Celtic Christmas: Winter Wonderland
St Stephen's Choir The First Noel
Viva La Musica Choir - Jingle Bells: Santa's Favourite Songs |
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Aching for a Silent Night?
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Christmas Karaoke
Caroling is so played out. Nobody wants to hear their neighbors going from door to door, boasting their choral “talents” any more. Wouldn’t your neighbors rather hear you belting Christmas Classics a la Karaoke through the walls rather than on their front porch?
| Jingle Bells |
Deck The Halls |
| Ding Dong Merrily on High |
Happy Christmas (War is Over) |
| Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas |
I'll Be Home For Christmas |
| Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer |
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town |
| Silent Night |
The Twelve Days of Christmas |
| We Wish You a Merry Christmas |
White Christmas |
| Winter Wonderland |
Frosty the Snowman/Sleigh Ride |
| Jingle Bell Rock |
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Buried Treasures
Dust off that box of holiday ornaments and garnish your family room with sentimental relics of the past. And while you’re at it, you might as well spin a few of you’re A-Train favorites from years past. Remember these?
Todi Neesh Zhee Singers
Navajo Christmas
Christmas comes to Navajoland as
the Todi Neesh Zhee Singers present
five Christmas songs done in
traditional song and dance style
interspersed with four social dance
songs. These popular singers are
joined by Roger Begay, Radmilla
Cody, Socie Saltwater and Consuela Chacon in Christmas standards
sung in both Navajo and English.
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Dred Scott
Dred Xmas
Dred Scott grew up in St. Louis, but honed his chops in the San Francisco Bay Area where he gained a reputation as an innovator and as a leader of the ground-breaking jazz / hip-hop band Alphabet Soup. He has also recorded on nearly 40 albums with the likes of Don Byron, Anthony Braxton, John Adams, Cecil McBee, and Andrew Cyrille, and has performed with Levon Helm, Joe Henderson, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Weir, Ricky Lee Jones, Moby, the Berkeley Symphony (Kent Nagano) and many more. On Dred Xmas, Dred Scott plays all the instruments on this holiday classic.
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R. Carlos Nakai and William Eaton
Winter Dreams for Christmas
R. Carlos Nakai and guitarist William
Eaton have arranged these beautiful
Christmas songs from Europe. It is as
if these melodies carried themselves
from the Old World across the
New...to the southwestern deserts
where the wind and solitude imbued them with a new enchantment. It
is the dream of Nakai and Eaton that the peace and goodwill expressed
in these timeless melodies lives throughout the year for people of all
cultures and faiths.
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Gregg Karukas with Shelby Flint
Home For The Holidays
Popular contemporary jazz
keyboardist Gregg Karukas captures
all the warmth of being "Home For
The Holidays" with this exquisite
collection of seasonal classics,
recorded live in studio in an intimate,
acoustical setting featuring fresh,
inventive piano trio arrangements of some of the best-loved holiday
songs ever recorded. Gregg teams up with longtime musical partner
Shelby Flint, whose singing and songwriting talents are featured in
unforgettable, heartfelt performances of original and familiar holiday
music.
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Jeff Golub
Six String Santa
Combing a rich love for blues, rock
and pop with potent jazz chops, Jeff
Golub and his band recorded their
first Christmas record, Six String
Santa. "I’ve always wanted to do a
record of Christmas music…" Golub
says. "I went in the studio, and we
came up with some very spirited
arrangements of these classic songs
that I love so much. " On this lively holiday CD, Golub lays down his
own smooth and funky interpretations of holiday classics, backed by
the stellar line up of saxophonist Warren Hill, Chris Palmaro on
keyboards, Lincoln Goines on bass, Stephen Ferrone and Shawn
Pelton on drums, and Roger Squitero on percussion. A great
accompaniment for any holiday party, sure to get your guests in the
spirit!
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Silver Wave Artists
A Winter Celebration
A Winter Celebration features
traditional and original instrumentals
and vocals from these extraordinary
artists: Peter Kater, R. Carlos Nakai,
Joanne Shenandoah, Flesh & Bone,
Tom & Susan Wasinger, Trio Globo,
Fowler & Branca, Margot Krimmel
and Mark Miller, Eugene Friesen, Chris White, Danny Heines and
Curandero. The glory of summer gives way to harvest, to solstice and
to the preparation for the slumbering earth. The Silver Wave artists
give us a gorgeous grouping of music in celebration of this time of
year.
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Peter Kater
X-Mas Ecstasy
The most recent of GRAMMY
nominee Peter Kater’s holiday
classics, Xmas Ecstasy displays the
visionary and evocative interpretations of Peter's favorite
Christmas songs as they transport us
around the world to experience the
soul of the season in a wholly
timeless and universal canopy of sound.
Velvety smooth percussion and celebratory rhythms playfully dance
with the Native American flute, Middle Eastern duduk, Irish penny
whistle, woodwinds, guitar, bass and piano; all resounding deeply,
joyfully and reverently, exposing layer after layer of Xmas ecstasy.
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Radhika Miller
Blossoms in the Snow
Holiday minstrel magic with
delightful renditions of familiar
favorites on traditional medieval and
renaissance instruments plus
refreshing originals for flute and
recorders (Radhika Miller), harp
(Michelle Sell and Cheryl Ann Fulton), piano (Louis Magor), cello
(David Darling), vielle and rebec (Shira Kammen), mandola (Peter
Rowan), kalimba and dulcimer (Tony D'Anna). CD Review gave it
their highest rating. "Simply the most striking Christmas album of any
year." Great holiday gift item!
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Southern Scratch
Chicken Scratch Christmas
Chicken Scratch, the social dance
music of the Tohono O'odham
("Desert People"), also known as
waila music, evolved from the earlier
acoustic fiddle bands that adapted
European and Mexican tunes heard in
Northern Sonora. Twelve popular
Christmas carols are done in the happy go lucky chicken scratch style
by one of the premiere bands of the Tohono O'odham. Includes “Frosty
the Snowman”, “Silent Night”, “Feliz Navidad” and “Jingle Bells”.
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Warscout
Red Christmas
For the Plains Cree, winter brings the
season of the Round Dance. A social
dance of happiness and harmony, its
songs contain often amusing lyrics
about love and courtship. Inspired by
this tradition, Warscout has crafted
these songs infused with the spirit of
Christmas. Joyful and touching, Red
Christmas is a heartfelt Native American
yuletide celebration that will warm the soul on the frostiest winter
night.
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For More Information Contact:
Bob Williard - Digital Distribution • A-Train Entertainment • bob (at) a-train.com
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