Talk about your gifts of Christmas past, The Christmas Collection is a must-have for any Sinatraphile, right down to its family photos and one priceless shot of Sinatra swinging a golf club next to the tree wearing a Santa suit! Complete with four previously unreleased tracks (some from live TV specials) -- including two with Bing Crosby ("The Christmas Song" and "White Christmas"), the 18-song collection surveys Sinatra's holiday output and its effects are often chilling. Listening to him glide soulfully through Jimmy Webb's melancholy but romantic "What Ever Happened to Christmas?" or hearing him do his immaculate phrasing on "Silent Night" when he was visibly frail and aging in 1991 are close encounters of a Sinatra kind that are rarely captured on one album..


Track Listings

1. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
2. The Christmas Waltz
3. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
4. The Little Drummer Boy
5. We Wish You the Merriest
6. Have Yourself a Merry Christmas
7. Go Tell It On The Mountain
8. The Christmas Song
9. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
10. I Wouldn't Trade Christmas
11. Christmas Memories
12. The Twelve Days of Christmas
13. Bells of Christmas
14. An Old Fashioned Christmas
15. A Baby Just Like You
16. Whatever Happened to Christmas
17. White Christmas
18. Silent Night