Beyond his work as a singer of cowboy songs and pop standards, Gene Autry also had a major career as a singer of novelty songs, including Christmas songs, recording the second biggest seller of them all after "White Christmas," "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer," in 1948. He cut three other Christmas songs that day, plus a bunch more throughout his career, and 14 of them (including "Rudolph") are included here, among them such stylized pieces as "The Night Before Christmas (In Texas, That Is)" as well as familiar fare like ...
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Beyond his work as a singer of cowboy songs and pop standards, Gene Autry also had a major career as a singer of novelty songs, including Christmas songs, recording the second biggest seller of them all after "White Christmas," "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer," in 1948. He cut three other Christmas songs that day, plus a bunch more throughout his career, and 14 of them (including "Rudolph") are included here, among them such stylized pieces as "The Night Before Christmas (In Texas, That Is)" as well as familiar fare like "Here Comes Santa Claus" and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." The voice is so honest and unaffected that you absolutely want to believe that Santa is somewhere out there, and the arrangements are top-notch, bright, and engaging in their own right, and two of them feature Autry in duets with Rosemary Clooney (mother of George, for any youngsters reading this) when she was in her prime. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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