Time-Life Music: Treasury of Christmas - Holiday Memories
Even though it includes some of the same songs, this isn't the Time-Life Christmas collection advertised annually on TV. It's actually a budget version of that anthology, and not a bad deal at all. Some may argue it's missing the twoElvis Presleytracks found on the three-CD TV version. Others will contend that any self-respecting Christmas music aficionado probably already owns (or should own) Elvis's wonderful '57Christmas Album. What's attractive about this one is it gathers a lot of classicsingularperformances in one place--a tad too muchBing Crosby, perhaps, but also theoriginalhit versions of "Jingle Bell Rock,"Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby,"Burl Ives's "Holly Jolly Christmas," and theDrifters' "White Christmas" (the blueprint for Elvis's version). This is a terrific cross section of seasonal sounds.--Bill Holdship