Artist: Barbra Streisand
Title: A Christmas Album (2024 Remaster)
Year Of Release: 1967
Label: Columbia - Legacy
Genre: Christmas
Quality:  FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 37:05
Total Size: 212  MB


Tracklist:

1. Jingle Bells? (2024 Remaster) (1:53)
2. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (2024 Remaster) (3:08)
3. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) [2024 Remaster] (3:55)
4. White Christmas (2024 Remaster) (3:03)
5. My Favorite Things (2024 Remaster) (3:03)
6. The Best Gift (2024 Remaster) (3:09)
7. Sleep in Heavenly Peace (Silent Night) [2024 Remaster] (3:02)
8. Gounod's Ave Maria (2024 Remaster) (3:21)
9. O Little Town of Bethlehem (2024 Remaster) (2:53)
10. I Wonder as I Wander (2024 Remaster) (3:14)
11. The Lord's Prayer (2024 Remaster) (2:44)
12. Gounod's Ave Maria [2024 Remaster] (English Version) (3:47)

If Simply Streisand, which appeared earlier the same month as A Christmas Album, indicated that Streisand was overly reverent when it came to standards, reverence was no problem with seasonal fare. You don't necessarily look for unusual interpretations of your Christmas music; you just want those old favorites sung well, and for the most part, that's what you got from Streisand. She did lead off with "Jingle Bells?" into which she injected some of her trademark humor while performing at a breakneck pace. Marty Paich arranged and conducted the secular songs like "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "White Christmas," which occupied side one, while Ray Ellis handled the religious material on side two. But both were traditional in their charts, and Streisand gave her singing just enough personality without getting in the way of the familiar songs. They were trying to make a timeless classic, and that's what they achieved. © William Ruhlmann /TiVo