CHRISTMAS SONG, THE

Personnel includes: Nat "King" Cole (vocals, piano); Natalie Cole (vocals); Ralph Carmichael (conductor). Producer: Lee Gillette. Reissue producer: Brad Benedict. Includes liner notes by Dick LaPalm. Digitally remastered by Bob Norberg (Capitol Mastering). First issued in the early 1960s, this collection of musical Christmas cheer is packed full of the smoothly sung, sentimental favorites associated as much with Nat "King" Cole himself as with the season. The singer's performance of "The Christmas Song" is an unforgettable classic reprised here twice, once in an updated version that includes a contemporary vocal from his daughter, Natalie, and also in Cole's original 1946 recording. Other traditional religious favorites like "I Saw Three Ships" and "Away in a Manger" are also featured, in a setting that, with its well-arranged orchestral accompaniment, manages to sound both sophisticated and folksy.

• Genre: Christmas / Chanukkah
• Format: CD
• Released: 8/25/2009