I’ll Be Home for Christmas (Barbra Streisand)
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Barbra Streisand/A Christmas Album $4.99 You haven’t heard “Jingle Bells” until you’ve heard Barbra Streisand’s version. Sounding more like a bebop Santa on A Christmas Album’s rousing opening track, Streisand keenly races through the stanzas, toying with the words, pushing the song’s tempos, and generally having a lot of fun. After that, she gets down to the more serious side of holiday offerings, with tracks that include “My Favorite T… |
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Christmas Memories $5.00 What’s a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn cum internationally renowned pop diva doing releasing a(nother) Christmas album? Well, maintaining a long-lived American tradition, for one thing. But then, this companion piece to Barbra Streisand’s 1967 A Christmas Album has a mature, jazzy charm and sometimes smoky atmosphere that don’t exactly conjure chestnuts roasting by an open fire. Just as Streisand… |