Merry Christmas, baby [sound recording] / Rod Stewart.
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MusicPublisher number: B001719002 | VervePublication details: Santa Monica, CA : Verve, p2012.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inContained works: - Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989. Holiday Inn. White Christmas
- Bernard, Felix, 1897-1944. Winter wonderland
- Harline, Leigh Pinocchio. When you wish upon a star
- Hayes, Billy, 1906-1993. Blue Christmas
- Hopkins, John H. 1820-1891. We three kings of Orient are
- Martin, Hugh, 1914-2011. Have yourself a merry little Christmas
- Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
- Produced & arranged by David Foster.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Hard as it may be to believe, but Rod Stewart has gotten through five decades without succumbing to a holiday album. That streak ends in 2012 with the release of Merry Christmas, Baby, an easygoing and chipper collection of secular seasonal standards. A couple of carols are thrown in for good measure but these songs -- "Silent Night," "We Three Kings" presented as a duet with Mary J. Blige -- along with a mildly incongruous "When You Wish Upon a Star," slide by easily on the mellow big-band swing of the rest of the record. Song for song, Merry Christmas, Baby is very much of a piece with Rod's ongoing Great American Songbook series, with Stewart not straying from the familiar form of these songs and producer David Foster laying on all manner of soft, soothing sounds, whether it's acoustic guitars, synthesizers, strings, or a children's choir on "Silent Night." Very rarely does this hint at the Rod of the '70s -- and when it does on the closing "Auld Lang Syne," its intro given a spare folky treatment reminiscent of his Mercury work, it's a bracing, effective reminder of Stewart's skill as a singer -- and instead relies on a gladhanding charm that suits the season, not to mention Stewart in his crooning dotage. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Compact disc.
Full credits on container insert.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas -- Santa Claus is coming to town -- Winter wonderland (duet with Michael Buble) -- White Christmas -- Merry Christmas, baby (duet with Cee Lo Green) -- Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! -- What are you doing New Year's Eve? (duet with Ella Fitzgerald) -- Blue Christmas -- Red-suited super man -- When you wish upon a star -- We three kings (duet with Mary J. Blige) -- Silent night -- Auld lang syne.
Produced & arranged by David Foster.
Performed by Rod Stewart ; with accompanying musicians.
The two-time Hall of Famer has teamed with Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter David Foster to record Merry Christmas, Baby, the first Christmas album of his five-decade career. Features duets with Michael Buble, Mary J. Blige, Cee Lo, and Ella Fitzgerald.