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Brian Setzer takes his horn-fueled big band on a sleigh ride into Christmas/holiday music with generally impressive results. Meshing his rockabilly guitar solos with brassy charts and a lounge/Vegas sensibility that is part tribute and part retro characterization, Setzer dusts off and polishes up obscure nuggets like Kay Starr's "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With the Bag" and Lionel Hampton's swinging "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus." He rocks up played-out chestnuts "Winter Wonderland" and "Jingle Bells," slightly altering the latter's lyrics to, "Oh what fun it is to ride in a '57 Chevrolet." Elvis' "Blue Christmas" succeeds despite, or maybe because of, its obvious inclusion, narrowly missing a parody of the original due to Setzer's reverb-heavy guitar solo. A rough, blues-heavy "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" successfully kicks the tune into classic urban R&B territory, with the bandleader's guitar getting down and dirty and the horns blasting away like Doc Severinsen's orchestra. Ann Margaret sounds a little tentative playing the sultry sex kitten next to Setzer's slick Bobby Darin on a nevertheless frisky duet romp through "Baby It's Cold Outside." But the album's obvious highlight is an intricately rearranged, instrumental big band blowout of "The Nutcracker Suite," originally written for Les Brown's orchestra in the '50s. It displays the group's stop-on-a-dime chops and swings like mad. A 30-piece choir backs Setzer doing his best Presley mannerisms on a smarmy "O Holy Night" and closes the album on a serious note with a prayerful "The Amens."
© Hal Horowitz /TiVo
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Traditional, Composer, Lyricist - Dave Darling, Producer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Dave Darling, Producer - Leon Rene, Composer, Lyricist - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Felix Bernard, Composer - Richard B. Smith, Composer, Lyricist - Dave Darling, Producer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Jay Johnson, Composer - Billy Hayes, Composer, Lyricist - Dave Darling, Producer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Jerry Leiber, Composer, Lyricist - Mike Stoller, Composer - Dave Darling, Producer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
FRANK LOESSER, Composer, Lyricist - Dave Darling, Producer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Dave Darling, Producer - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Hal Stanley, Composer - Dudley Brooks, Composer - Irving Taylor, Composer, Lyricist - Dave Darling, Producer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Leroy Anderson, Composer - Dave Darling, Producer - Michael Parish, Lyricist - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Johnny Marks, Composer, Lyricist - Dave Darling, Producer - Marvin Broadie, Composer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Mike Himelstein, Composer, Lyricist - Dave Darling, Producer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Dave Darling, Producer - Brian Setzer, Composer, Lyricist - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Traditional, Composer, Lyricist - Dave Darling, Producer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Traditional, Composer, Lyricist - Dave Darling, Producer - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, MainArtist
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
Album review
Brian Setzer takes his horn-fueled big band on a sleigh ride into Christmas/holiday music with generally impressive results. Meshing his rockabilly guitar solos with brassy charts and a lounge/Vegas sensibility that is part tribute and part retro characterization, Setzer dusts off and polishes up obscure nuggets like Kay Starr's "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With the Bag" and Lionel Hampton's swinging "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus." He rocks up played-out chestnuts "Winter Wonderland" and "Jingle Bells," slightly altering the latter's lyrics to, "Oh what fun it is to ride in a '57 Chevrolet." Elvis' "Blue Christmas" succeeds despite, or maybe because of, its obvious inclusion, narrowly missing a parody of the original due to Setzer's reverb-heavy guitar solo. A rough, blues-heavy "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" successfully kicks the tune into classic urban R&B territory, with the bandleader's guitar getting down and dirty and the horns blasting away like Doc Severinsen's orchestra. Ann Margaret sounds a little tentative playing the sultry sex kitten next to Setzer's slick Bobby Darin on a nevertheless frisky duet romp through "Baby It's Cold Outside." But the album's obvious highlight is an intricately rearranged, instrumental big band blowout of "The Nutcracker Suite," originally written for Les Brown's orchestra in the '50s. It displays the group's stop-on-a-dime chops and swings like mad. A 30-piece choir backs Setzer doing his best Presley mannerisms on a smarmy "O Holy Night" and closes the album on a serious note with a prayerful "The Amens."
© Hal Horowitz /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:47:55
- Main artists: The Brian Setzer Orchestra
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Surfdog Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
2002 Surfdog, Inc. 2002 Surfdog, Inc.
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