The Beach Boys - Christmas Album (1964)

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The Beach Boys ‎– The Beach Boys' Christmas Album

(originalmente lançado em LP Capitol Records ‎– T-2164, 1964).

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album is a Christmas album by The Beach Boys, released on November 16, 1964. Containing five original songs and seven standards, the album proved to be a long-running success during subsequent Christmas seasons, initially reaching #6 in the US Christmas album chart in its year of release and eventually going gold.

Of the original songs, "Little Saint Nick" was already famous, having been a hit single the year before. "The Man with All the Toys" was another hit during Christmastime 1964. "Christmas Day" is noteworthy for being the first Beach Boys song to feature a lead vocal from Al Jardine.

While leader Brian Wilson produced and arranged the "rock" songs, he left it to Dick Reynolds (an arranger of The Four Freshmen, a group Wilson idolized) to arrange the orchestral backings on the traditional songs to which The Beach Boys would apply their vocals. The album was released in both mono and stereo; the stereo mix, prepared by engineer Chuck Britz, would be the last true stereo mix for a Beach Boys album until 1968's Friends.

Fonte: Wikipedia

Faixas/Track List:

1. Little Saint Nick 

2. Man With All the Toys 

3. Santa's Beard 

4. Merry Christmas, Baby 

5. Christmas Day 

6. Frosty the Snowman 

7. We Three Kings of Orient Are 

8. Blue Christmas 

9. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town 

10. White Christmas 

11. I'll Be Home for Christmas 

12. Auld Lang Syne 

Bonus:

13. Little Saint Nick [Single Version] 

14. Lord's Prayer 

15. Little Saint Nick [Alternate Take] 

16. Auld Lang Syne [Alternate Take] 

Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick (from Youtube)

Álbum disponibilizado por Carlos Santos.