Track Listing

1. Sleigh Ride
2. Snow Flakes
3. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
4. Jingle Bells
5. Jingle Bell Rock
6. Silver Bells
7. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
8. Frosty The Snowman
9. Scrooge
10. Blue Christmas
11. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
12. White Christmas

Product Details

• Released on: 1995-10-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.com
Ah, this is jingle bell rock the way it's supposed to be, with driving guitars, splashy drums, and full stereo separation. The Ventures' Christmas Album just might be the best rock & roll holiday record ever made. The instrumental twang kings deliver pretty much what you'd expect--note-for-note renditions of standards, all dressed up with ubiquitous sleigh bells as well as the requisite reverb. What really makes this disc a blast though is the way the quartet weaves 1960s pop signatures into every tune; warping "Woolly Bully" into "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," "I Feel Fine" into "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and so on. Spin this and let your party guests have fun guessing which hit single will morph into a Christmas classic. --Michael Ruby