The Ventures - The Ventures' Christmas Album

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Title: The Ventures' Christmas Album
Artist: The Ventures
Audio CD (October 17, 1995)
Original Release Date: November 1965
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Christmas
Format: Format: Free Lossless Audio Codec


Track Listing:

01. Sleigh Ride
02. Snow Flakes
03. Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
04. Jingle Bells
05. Jingle Bell Rock
06. Silver Bells
07. Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
08. Frosty the Snowman
09. Scrooge
10. Blue Christmas
11. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
12. White Christmas


Amazon Review:
Ah, this is jingle bell rock the way it's supposed to be, with driving guitars, splashy drums, and full stereo separation. The Ventures' Christmas Album just might be the best rock & roll holiday record ever made. The instrumental twang kings deliver pretty much what you'd expect--note-for-note renditions of standards, all dressed up with ubiquitous sleigh bells as well as the requisite reverb. What really makes this disc a blast though is the way the quartet weaves 1960s pop signatures into every tune; warping "Woolly Bully" into "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," "I Feel Fine" into "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and so on. Spin this and let your party guests have fun guessing which hit single will morph into a Christmas classic.

Allmusic Review:
Twelve Yuletide standards along the lines of "White Christmas," "Frosty the Snowman," and "Sleigh Ride." All are arranged more or less along the lines of the classic early Ventures sound, with quotes from Ventures songs like "Walk Don't Run" thrown in, as well as phrases from contemporary hits like "I Feel Fine" and "When You Walk in the Room." If not for the ubiquitous overdubs of annoyingly corny sleigh bells, this would rank among the better rock & roll X-mas albums. But apparently the producers couldn't resist watering down the band's trademark sleek guitar-bass-drums lineup with seasonal flavor