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Real Gone's 2015 collection The Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings combines Jim Nabors' two holiday albums for Columbia -- 1967's Jim Nabors' Christmas Album and 1972's Merry Christmas -- adding a couple of seasonal religious tunes from 1968's The Lord's Prayer & Other Sacred Songs and 1971's How Great Thou Art for good measure (as it happens, these bonus cuts include two different versions of "Ave Maria." Of the two albums, the 1967 set is slightly stuffier -- there's a reliance on old-fashioned carols and the string arrangements are a bit stiff -- but 1971 conjures just a bit of the spirit of Hollywood holiday specials, its strings feeling slightly snazzy, not starchy. Still, there's no question that Jim Nabors, with his well-rounded tenor and fastidious delivery, is very squarely in the middle of the road. His sensibility belongs in an era that was bypassed when these records were recorded, so this release functions as dual nostalgia: pining for pining for days of Christmas past.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Jack Gold, Producer - Traditional, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - N. Regney, Composer - G. Shayne, Composer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Gloria Shayne Baker, Composer, Lyricist - Noel Regney, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - A. Adam, Composer - Jack Gold, Producer - John Sullivan Dwight, Lyricist
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - G. Shayne, Composer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Frederick Oakley, Composer, Lyricist - Jack Gold, Producer - John Francis Wade, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Jack Gold, Producer - James Lord Pierpont, Composer, Lyricist
(P) Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Irving Berlin, Composer, Lyricist - Jack Gold, Producer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - S. Zabka, Composer - D. Upton, Composer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - In Research, Producer - M. Parish, Composer - Laurie Anderson, Composer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Kim Gannon, Composer - Buck Ram, Composer - Walter Kent, Composer - Alan Copeland, Arranger
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Franz Xaver Gruber, Composer - Jack Gold, Producer - Joseph Mohr, Lyricist
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Albert Hay Malotte, Composer, Lyricist - Michael Brooks - Larry Keyes, Engineer - Joe Guercio, Producer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer, Lyricist - Charles Gounod, Composer, Lyricist - Sid Feller, Arranger - Joe Guercio, Producer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - William Aubert Luce, Composer, Lyricist - Paul Weston, Arranger, Conductor - William Stephens, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1969. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Robert Allen, Composer, Lyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS - Al Stillman, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS - Mel Torme, Composer, Lyricist - R. Wells, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Linda Laurie, Composer, Lyricist - Annette Tucker, Composer, Lyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS - Katherine Davis, Composer, Lyricist - Henry Onorate, Composer, Lyricist - Harry Simeone, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Bobby Troup, Composer, Lyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS - Georg Friedrich Händel, Composer - Isaac Watts, Lyricist
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS - Jay Livingston, Composer, Lyricist - Ray Evans, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Lewis H. Redner, Composer - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS - Phillips Brooks, Lyricist
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Hugh Martin, Composer, Lyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS - Ralph Blane, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Traditional, Composer, Lyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Jacob Gold, Composer, Lyricist - Phyllis Stohn, Composer, Lyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - AL CAPPS
(P) 1972 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Nabors, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Joe Guercio, Adapter, Producer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1971. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
Real Gone's 2015 collection The Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings combines Jim Nabors' two holiday albums for Columbia -- 1967's Jim Nabors' Christmas Album and 1972's Merry Christmas -- adding a couple of seasonal religious tunes from 1968's The Lord's Prayer & Other Sacred Songs and 1971's How Great Thou Art for good measure (as it happens, these bonus cuts include two different versions of "Ave Maria." Of the two albums, the 1967 set is slightly stuffier -- there's a reliance on old-fashioned carols and the string arrangements are a bit stiff -- but 1971 conjures just a bit of the spirit of Hollywood holiday specials, its strings feeling slightly snazzy, not starchy. Still, there's no question that Jim Nabors, with his well-rounded tenor and fastidious delivery, is very squarely in the middle of the road. His sensibility belongs in an era that was bypassed when these records were recorded, so this release functions as dual nostalgia: pining for pining for days of Christmas past.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 01:19:14
- Main artists: Jim Nabors
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Columbia - Legacy
- Genre: Comedy/Other Ambient/New Age Christmas Music
This compilation (P) 2017 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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