Name: R&B Christmas, Vol. 2
Brand: CEMA Special Markets
SKU: 830443
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R&B Christmas, Vol. 2

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Album: R&B Christmas, Vol. 2
#	Song Title	Time
1)	This Christmas - The Whispers
2)	Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without the One You Love) - The O'Jays
3)	O Come All Ye Faithful - Nat King Cole
4)	Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Lou Rawls
5)	Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Lena Horne
6)	Merry Christmas, Baby - Charles Brown
7)	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Ella Fitzgerald
8)	Feels Like Christmas - Al Green
9)	Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Lena Horne (CD only)
10)	What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Nancy Wilson (CD only)

Album: R&B Christmas, Vol. 2
#	Song Title	Time
1)	This Christmas - The Whispers
2)	Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without the One You Love) - The O'Jays
3)	O Come All Ye Faithful - Nat King Cole
4)	Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Lou Rawls
5)	Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Lena Horne
6)	Merry Christmas, Baby - Charles Brown
7)	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Ella Fitzgerald
8)	Feels Like Christmas - Al Green
9)	Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Lena Horne (CD only)
10)	What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Nancy Wilson (CD only)

Performer Notes

EMI-Capitol Special Markets' Rhythm & Blues Christmas, Vol. 2 is an odd hodgepodge of soul, jazz, urban contemporary and R&B tunes largely culled from the EMI vaults (there are also a couple of cuts from Hi and Solar and Philadelphia International, which EMI's reissue label the Right Stuff has acquired over the years). There are certainly a number of great artists here -- Nat "King" Cole, Lou Rawls, Lena Horne, Charles Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, the O'Jays and Al Green -- but they're artists who don't necessarily belong on the same compilation. Consequently, the compilation never quite gels, despite its uniformly high quality. Then again, considering that the disc is inexpensive, it's probably worth its price for budget-minded listeners, simply because there is a lot of good music on the disc. You can figure out the sequence that works best with your CD programming. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine