Ella Fitzgerald Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas LP 180g Vinyl Verve Acoustic Sounds Series QRP USA
Title: Wishes You A Swinging Christmas
Catalog Number: B0033746-01 / MG VS-64042
Label: Verve
Reissued by: Verve Records
Barcode: 602435971841
Edition: Acoustic Sounds Series
Original release year: 1960
Reissue year: 2021
Number of discs: 1
Revolutions per minute: 33⅓ rpm
Disc size: 12"
Vinyl Weight Grade: 180gr
Total Item Weight: 527gr
Pressing country: USA
For Market Release in: USA
Added to catalog on: December 12, 2021
Collection: Verve Acoustic Sounds Series
Note: Never eligible for any further discounts
Vinyl Gourmet Club: Yes
Seeking to offer audiophile grade versions of some of the best jazz records ever made, Verve and Universal Music new audiophile Acoustic Sounds Series is supervised by Chad Kassem, utilizing the skills of top mastering engineers and the craft of Quality Record Pressings, with all titles being mastered from the original analog tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl and packaged by Stoughton Printing.
Rated 9/11 Music and 9/11 Sound by Michael Fremer (Analog Planet)
- Acoustic Sounds Series
- Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes
- Cut by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound
- Audiophile 180 Gram Vinyl LP
- Pressed at Quality Record Pressings, QRP USA
- Deluxe Gatefold cover by Stoughton Printing
Ella's 1960 Verve holiday album - featuring "Frosty The Snow Man", "Winter Wonderland", "Sleigh Ride" and many more - has been a swingin' yuletide tradition for over 60 years. The album was recorded in the summer of 1960, with a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol. An ebullient Ella Fitzgerald exudes warmth, spirit and good cheer, as if to ask: Why not the peace and good will of Christmas the year 'round? These twelve happy, winter songs suggest that yours be a Swinging Christmas - anytime, all the time!
Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas is a charming, warmly humorous - and yes, swinging - set of classic Christmas tunes. As always, Norman Granz's production avoids the schlock that drowns some holiday sets. This is as good as jazz Christmas albums get. - AllMusic
Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas album is a secular holiday delight sure to please every listener, even atheists and agnostics. Originally released in 1960, the sound here is warm and inviting as a Yule log burning in the fireplace - once you get past the opener 'Jingle Bells', which is somewhat brighter, brasher and more in your face than the rest, though having Ella in your face is hardly problematic. Ella is front and center, closely mic'd and with just a kiss of reverb producing an exciting sense of her in the room. Frank DeVol's sumptuous (but not too rich) swinging arrangements for a dozen Christmas favorites are sensibly hip and without gimmicks, so they don't at all sound dated sixty years after the four New York City summer sessions during which this album was recorded. Imagine Ella singing 'Let It Snow' during a hot New York summer. She makes it sound like December. The mix puts the orchestra more hard left/right than you'll hear in modern recordings but there's still plenty of center fill, producing a super-natural sonic picture... Rich, mellow sound, ear-pleasing arrangements, and of course Ella Fitzgerald's good cheer make this a Christmas season winner you're sure to play often at least until the 25th of December and perhaps beyond. And if this review sounds like advertising copy, so be it! Perfect QRP pressing too. - Michael Fremer, Analog Planet, Music 9/11, Sound 9/11
Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound wrapped the original analog tapes up in bright colored paper and set the music carefully under the Christmas tree to give us listeners a jolly ol' thrill come December 25th. You may have heard 'White Christmas' or 'Winter Wonderland' a dozen times before, but there's no way those other renditions have the same bracing snap and yule log glow as Ella's. - Robert Ham, Paste Magazine
Track Listing:
Side A
1. Jingle Bells
2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
3. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
4. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
5. Sleigh Ride
6. The Christmas Song
Side B
1. Good Morning Blues
2. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
3. Winter Wonderland
4. Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
5. Frosty The Snow Man
6. White Christmas
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