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Christmas Hits: 50 Festive Favourites

By: Various Artists
Label: Bmg TV
Released: 24 Nov 2003
RRP: £22.99
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Christmas at its best - By: , 11 Dec 2004
I ordered this album & thought it was the best christmas album I have ever bought. The songs are alll so christmassy & reallly put you in the christmas mood. It is a great collection of varied artists, so it suits everyone's style of music. Favourites of mine are the beautiful "silver bells", the pretender's version of "merry little christmas" which is delightful, & mariah carey's belting powerful version of "o holy night" that sounds like she has desended from heaven. Buy it & feel 100% christmassy.
Good Compilation, but... - By: , 04 Nov 2003
This might sound like nit-picking, but before buying this CD you should be warned that most of the tracks are cut short & fade out long before the song is supposed to end. I guess this is the way they managed to fit so many tracks onto 2 CDs, but I found it quite annoying. Otherwise it's a pretty good compilation, better in my opinion than the "Best Christmas Album Ever".
An interesting collection - By: Peter Durward Harris, 02 Nov 2003
Over the last few years, the double-CD various artists compilation has become a tradition in Britain, especiallly with Christmas albums. There have been many such compilations, often repeating the same songs. This is a good one, including plenty of classics but also a few less obvious selections.

Many classic UK hits are here (and one or two non-hits that should have been), including Merry Christmas everybody (Slade), Do they know its Christmas (Band aid), Fairytale of New York (Pogues & Kirsty MacColl), I believe in Father Christmas (Greg Lake), 2000 miles (Pretenders), Driving home for Christmas (Chris Rea), Step into Christmas (Elton John), Merry Christmas everyone (Shaking Stevens), Stop the cavalry (Jona Lewie), The power of love (Frankie goes to Hollywood), White Christmas (Bing Crosby), Mary's boy child (Boney M), When a child is born (Johnny Mathis), Millennium prayer (Cliff Richard), Last Christmas (Wham), A winter's tale (David Essex) & Santa baby (Eartha Kitt).

Many other pop & rock singers of the eighties & nineties are also represented. There are excellent original Christmas songs by Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen & Gloria Estefan, while there are fine covers of classic songs by several others. There are also a few golden oldies such as Frank Sinatra & Doris Day.

If I have a criticism, it is that four songs appear twice - different versions of Last Christmas, Have yourself a merry little Christmas, Blue Christmas & When a child is born appear on each CD. Given the wide choice of different songs available to the compilers, such duplication could easily have been avoided. Nevertheless, this is a very strong compilation.

Simply the best Christmas album in the world! - By: , 22 Dec 2001
This Christmas album has everything you could want from the classic songs like White Christmas by Bing Crosby to Westlife's 1999 Christmas no.1 I Have A Dream. As it says on the back of the album, this has definately got 50 festive favourites on it. My favourite being Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby.

I bought this album when it first came out as I didn't have any Christmas albums with popular hits on it & I love it. Definately an album to be played every Christmas!