Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails, Part One | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 3482
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 52559
UPC: 724385255922
EAN: 0724385255922
Release Date: September 3, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo - Billy May | | • | Winter Wonderland - Peggy Lee | | • | Christmas Trumpets/We Wish You A Verry Merry... - Ray Anthony | | • | Christmas Is - Lou Rawls | | • | Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town/White Christmas - Jimmy McGriff | | • | I'd Like You For Christmas - Julie London | | • | Holiday On Skis - Al Caiola & Riz Ortolani | | • | (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag - Kay Starr | | • | Jingle Bells/Jingle Bell Rock - Hollyridge Strings | | • | I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Dean Martin | | • | I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus/Jingle Bells... - Eddie Dunstedter | | • | Christmas Kisses - Ray Anthony | | • | I'll Be Home For Christmas/Baby, It's Cold Outside - Jackie Gleason/Jack Marshall | | • | What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Nancy Wilson | | • | Cha-Cha All The Way - Capitol Studio Orchestra | | • | The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) - Nat King Cole | | • | The Nutcracker Suite - Les Brown & His Band Of Renown | | • | Ring Those Christmas Bells - Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians | | • | Bonus Track - Christmas Cocktails | | • | Bonus Track - Christmas Cocktails | | • | Bonus Track - Christmas Cocktails |
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A perfect martini-and-mistletoe combo, Christmas Cocktails will gaily seduce you with its bevy of nostalgic and occasionally campy holiday fare. Vocal vixens Peggy Lee, Julie London (her "I'd Like You for Christmas" will melt the ice cubes in your fridge), Kay Starr, and Nancy Wilson join forces with perennial crooners such as Lou Rawls, Dean Martin, and the immortal Nat "King" Cole, along with a handful of instrumental big-band numbers and odd, at times cheese-ball-shaped jazz organ pieces from Jimmy McGriff and the flammable Eddie Dundstedter, among others. But the essential item that makes plunking down your pelts for this very chi-chi set is none other than Billy May's lovably kitschy workout called "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo." It's a scream. The package comes complete with its own cocktail minimanual and the recipes for Hot Toddys and Hot Tom and Jerrys. Garishly retro and naughtily nostalgic, this kind of slinky Christmas gift should probably be illegal in many prudish states. --Martin Keller
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 Christmas Cocktails March 21, 2008
Louis E. Negrette
It is what exactly what it says it is. Nice jazz renditions of Christmas classics. Pour your self an eggnog and enjoy
 Ultra lounge Christmas Cocktails part 1 Christmas Cocktails January 28, 2008
Mary L. Wickham
This is such a hip Christmas disc! Every one who hears it loves it. It is one of our favorite holiday discs.
hot toddies to melt your snowcone December 8, 2007
Matthew G. Sherwin
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Christmas Cocktails, part one gives you twenty-one awesome tracks to make you feel toasty warm all over this holiday season! The quality of the sound is excellent and anyone who likes lounge music is bound to want this album.
There are several highlights of this album. The first track is Billy May's "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo." This tune's Latin beat uses the brass, percussion and perfect timing to make a great arrangement. Peggy Lee's "Winter Wonderland" is another track I really like; her excellent diction bolsters her performance. Moreover, listen for Ray Anthony's medley of "Christmas Trumpets/We Wish You A Very Merry Christmas;" this one's wonderful, too.
The incomparable Julie London does a perfect job on "I'd Like You For Christmas;" her voice conveys all the romance a man could ever want from a woman. Of course, Kay Starr's excellent "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag" features Kay singing at her best; the big band style arrangement lacks nothing, either.
Dean Martin croons his way through "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm;" and Jackie Gleason and Jack Marshall give us a great medley of "I'll Be Home For Christmas/Baby, It's Cold Outside." Now THIS is mood music!
Nancy Wilson performs a charming, sensitive rendition of the classic "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?;" and the immortal Nat King Cole performs "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)."
There are three bonus tracks. I especially liked the one that features several different artists encouraging people to contribute to "Toys For Tots;" and Billy May's eclectic version of "Jingle Bells" is a cute way for Capitol Records to wish us all a Merry Christmas.
The liner notes feature an essay by R. J. Smith; and we get two drink recipes--including one of the famous Hot Toddy. The artwork is excellent.
In short, if you like lounge music--and especially pop Christmastime music from the 1950s and 1960s--you have got to get this album. It's worth every penny you'll spend on it.
 I LOVE THE COLLECTION BUT (AND IT'S A BIG BUT) November 5, 2007
John Gibson (San Diego, CA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Am I the only one who can't seem to download the music into iTunes? My computer won't even acknowledge the existence of the CD. Grrrrrr - that's not the true Christmas spirit... (or IS it?)
LOVE ULTRA LOUNGE! Have most all of them now May 12, 2007
Stephen B. Lambeth (Jersey)
Nothing can be finer that Ultra Lounge - never a bad thing to say.
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