A Very Special Christmas/Michael Buble Christmas
A Very Special Christmas
A Very Special Christmas is the first in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released in mid-October 1987, and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine for A&M Records. A Very Special Christmas has raised millions of dollars for the Special Olympics. As of November 2014, A Very Special Christmas is the 19th best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the United States … it has been certified quadruple platinum …. I have owned this on CD since its release and have only owned a vinyl copy since last Christmas … This is an album that always gets played at my home during the holidays …
Notable Tracks – ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ ‘Merry Christmas Baby’ ‘Do You Hear What I Hear’ ‘Run, Run Rudolph’
Michael Buble Christmas
Christmas is Michael Bublé’s first full-length holiday-themed album since his 2003 EP Let It Snow. This an incredible Christmas album and has become to be a favorite of mine during the holidays … it features Buble delivering an ‘old school’ delivery that has been expressed as ‘Bing Crosby meets Dean Martin’ vocal style … The album was released in October 2011 and sold over two and a half million copies for the year … second only to Adele’s blockbuster ‘21’ … the lp also won a Juno Award for Album of the Year, making it the first holiday album to win the award.
Notable Tracks – ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ ‘Cold December Night’ ‘I’ll Be Home For Christmas’ ‘It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas’ ‘Jingle Bells’ with the Puppini Sisters