THE SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS! A 1964 HOLIDAY ALBUM MEMORY

THE BEACH BOYS’ CHRISTMAS ALBUM

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‘The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album’ is the seventh studio album by the Beach Boys, released in November 1964. It contains five original songs and seven standards on a Christmas theme. The album proved to be a long-running success during subsequent Christmas seasons, initially reaching number six in the US Billboard 200 chart in its year of release and eventually going gold. Music historian James Perone wrote that it is “regarded as one of the finest holiday albums of the rock era”.

While leader Brian Wilson produced and arranged the rock songs, he left it to Dick Reynolds (an arranger for the Four Freshmen, a group Wilson idolized) to arrange the forty-one piece orchestral backings on the traditional songs to which the Beach Boys would apply their vocals. One single was released from the album, the original song “The Man with All the Toys” backed with the group’s rendition of “Blue Christmas”. “Little Saint Nick”, a single which had already been released the previous year, was included on the album.

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(Source: Wikipedia)