Chicago Christmas (2019)

Chicago Christmas (2019)

• Chicago- Chicago Christmas
• Product type : ABIS MUSIC
• Brand : Rhino

The Legendary €œRock Band With Horns€ Gets Into The Spirit Of The Holiday Season With An Album That Mixes Original Christmas Songs And Yuletide Favorites<div>-</div>Produced by founding member Lee Loughnane, CHICAGO CHRISTMAS is the 37th album of the band€s career and its fourth holiday collection. Whereas its previous releases focused more on traditional Christmas songs, the new record spotlights holiday music the band wrote especially for the album, including €œAll Over The World,€ €œ(Because) It€s Christmastime,€ and €œI€m Your Santa Claus.€ The album also features R&B and ballad versions of €œMerry Christmas, I Love You,€ a song that Loughnane wrote with John Durrill of The Ventures, the best-selling instrumental band of all time.<div>-</div>Along with the new songs, the album also features the band€s interpretations of two holiday standards: €œHere We Come A Caroling€ and €œSleigh Ride.€ It€s the second time Chicago has recorded €œSleigh Ride.€ A different version appears on Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Thee (2011). The album€s other non-original track is a soulful Chicago interpretation of the Hal David and Burt Bacharach classic, €œWhat The World Needs Now Is Love,€ which founding member Robert Lamm thought had a timely message for the holidays.<div>-</div><div></div>Chicago Christmas features original compositions by many of the band members, along with unmistakable horn arrangements by founding member James Pankow. The album was recorded and mixed by Tim Jessup.