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Elf: Music From The Major Motion Picture | 
 enlarge | Creator: Various Artists
Label: New Line Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $7.42
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Rating:  61 reviews
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 39028
UPC: 794043902826
EAN: 0794043902826
Release Date: November 4, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Pennies From Heaven - Louis Prima | | • | Sleigh Ride - Ella Fitzgerald | | • | Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - Lena Horne | | • | Sleigh Ride / Santa Claus Party - Ferrante And Teicher/Les Baxter | | • | Baby It's Cold Outside - Leon Redbone/Zooey Deschanel | | • | Jingle Bells - Jim Reeves | | • | Nutcracker Suite - Brian Setzer | | • | Christmas Island - Leon Redbone | | • | Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt | | • | Winter Wonderland - Leon Redbone | | • | Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Eddy Arnold | | • | Nothing From Nothing - Billy Preston |
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It takes a pretty deft touch to make us believe towering Will Ferrell as a displaced human cum Santa's elf, Ed Asner as St. Nick and make a Christmas movie that's as loopy/sassy as it is seasonally sentimental. Yet that's what director Jon Favreau has done with this unlikely little holiday gem, and his hand-picked song score underscores its warm heart and comedic smarts with charm to burn. Suffused with a New York sense of traditional cool, Favreau turns his soundtrack into an upbeat secular Christmas classic, a sort of Swingers-Meet-Santa collection that convinces us that performances as diverse as Louis Prima's rousing take on "Pennies From Heaven" and the pumping soul of Billy Preston's "Nothing From Nothing" are as season-friendly as the performances of more traditional Christmas pop fare by Ella Fitzgerald, Jim Reeves, Eartha Kitt and Eddy Arnold they bookend. The edited Ferrante & Teicher/Les Baxter medley is a lounge-y inspiration, while a trio of laconic Leon Redbone crooners anchor the film's dizzy, if often bittersweet emotional foundations. Co-star Zooey Deschanel duets with Redbone on "Baby It's Cold Outside," her bluesy performance a welcome surprise that recalls nothing less than a young Peggy Lee. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews: Read 56 more reviews...
 Elf soundtrack November 24, 2008
K. Fitzgerald
I love the movie Elf but I should have listened closer to the music while watching the movie. I thought I would love the soundtrack too but when some of the songs came on I thought, "when was this song in the movie?" I wasn't as impressed by the soundtrack as I was the movie.
Zooey Deschanel November 14, 2008
Robert Jorgenson (Los Angeles, CA USA)
The album has a lot of great material but most can be picked up off other albums. Get this one for Zooey Deschanel. Kind of pricey for one song but I think it was worth it.
 not too shabby January 25, 2008
E. Tajii (montebello, ca)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The main reason I bought this CD is because I wanted the song "baby it's cold outside". However, the version on this CD is kind of weird. It was not what I expected. Not only are the lyrics slightly different, the voices singing it are a little different as well... but still a good CD nonetheless.
Good X-mas CD to add to your collection January 18, 2008
C. Himmelsbach (APO, AE United States (US Forces Belgium))
This CD is worth it (at DEC 2007 Amazon price) just for Leon Redbone and Zooey Deschanel's rendition of "Baby, It's Cold Outside". Deschanel's voice made this version a new Christmas favorite in my household. The CD as a whole is good enough to hold its own as a key album in your holiday music, but just shy of being "the one Christmas CD you gotta have".
Would like to hear more from Deschanel and that bluesy (sp?) voice.
 Best christmas cd there is January 17, 2008
Theresa Barton
I love christmas music, and have quite a few christmas cd's. The "Elf" soundtrack is my favorite collection of classic artists and christmas favorites. P.S. don't miss this amazing christmas movie
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