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Peter Nero/Philly Pops Holiday Pops Release Date: 2003 10 07 Running Time: 45:33 Label: DRG After 25 years at the helm, conductor/pianist Peter Nero has finally found the time to make a record with the Philly Pops, his 67th album overall. It is not unlike a holiday concert by the Pops in Philadelphia, offering light orchestral arrangements of seasonal favorites such as "Jingle Bells" and "We Three Kings," piano solos by Nero on "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" and "White Christmas," and a guest star, singer Ann Hampton Callaway, who joins the Pops for five of the 11 selections, among them her own "Christmas Lullaby," previously recorded by Barbra Streisand. Callaway's voice recalls Streisand's here and there. She is at her best on the somewhat melancholy "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The orchestra manages a good combination of orchestral and big-band styles, making this a varied and enjoyable Christmas album in an easy listening mode. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 Celebration of Christmas traditional, Cahn, Pola, Tegney, Leontovich, Styne, Shayne, Wyle 7:29 2 Santa Claus is Comin' To Town Gillespie, Coots 3:15 3 Christmas Lullaby Callaway 3:34 4 White Christmas, song (from "Holiday Inn") Berlin 4:24 5 Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) Torme, Wells 3:36 6 Jingle Bells Pierpont 2:34 7 I'll Be Home for Christmas Gannon, Ram, Kent 3:46 8 We Three Kings of Orient Are traditional 3:10 9 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (for the film Meet Me in St. Lou Martin, Blane 3:05 10 Sleigh Ride, for orchestra (or string orchestra) Anderson 3:05 11 Christmas Festival, for orchestra Anderson 7:35 Releases: Year Type Label 2003 CD DRG

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