From Deseret News archives:
The hummable holidays
Just-released Christmas CDs are filled with old and new seasonal tunes
This time of year, it's all about the music. Goodness knows there are plenty of Christmas-themed CDs out there already if you do a search for "Christmas" on Amazon.com's music page, there are no less than 23,376 titles to choose from.
So, in the spirit of giving (or selling), your friendly neighborhood music labels have added a bunch to that number this year, and we have reviewed as many as we could gather and listen to.
Here they are, in alphabetical order by the last name of the artist.
CHERIE CALL; "Gifts" (Andersonic)
BOOTSY COLLINS; "Christmas Is 4 Ever" (Shout Factory)
Bassist and bandleader Bootsy Collins has put some funk in in the holidays. With "Christmas Is 4 Ever," the former Funkadelic member has taken such classics as "The Christmas Song," "Winter Wonderland" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and put them through the ringer to become "Chestnutz," "WinterFunkyLand" and "Boot-Off," respectively. He gets urban with "Silent Night" and the Wham song "This Christmas," which in Collins' hands becomes "Dis-Christmiss." Scott Iwasaki
JIM COSGROVE, "Mr. Stinky Feet's Christmas" (Warner Bros.)
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