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Merry Xmas
by Diana Ross & Supremes
Product Group: Music
Studio: Motown
ISBN: B000001AF3
EAN: 0737463525220
UPC: 737463525220
Binding/Media: Audio CD
Release Date: 1991-11-05
SKU: DM0190
Condition: Very Good
Comments: ** GREAT CONDITION **, BMG release, same awesome CD! Jewel case replaced, artwork gently worn. CD MINT! Excellent Music! Fast Shipping. DM
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Editorial Reviews
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Album Description
UK holiday release. Nothing says Christmas like spending the holidays with a real diva! So, this season, enjoy diva Diana and The Supremes with this festive platter featuring 12 classic Christmas tunes performed by Motown's most successful trio. Includes 'White Christmas', 'Jingle Bells', 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town', 'My Favorite Things' and many more. Add a little spice and Soul to your holidays! Spectrum.
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Amazon.com
At the time of the 1965 release of this holiday gift to fans, the Supremes were popular music's leading ladies, and it's easy to see why. Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson blended class, soul, and an approachable demeanor that shines brightly from the grooves of these 12 songs. Many Christmas favorites are represented here, but the threesome really puts their stamp on two new numbers, the jolly "Children's Christmas Song" and the more grown-up (but still charming) "Twinkle Twinkle Little Me." Additionally, Ross stretches out on a memorable, purring rendition of "My Favorite Things." --David Sprague
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Customer Reviews
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A Christmas Classic Worth a Ten Star Rating
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-11-04
This compilation was first released in the U.S. in 1965 with different cover art showing The Supremes in Elf Hats inside a Christmas Ornament; and at long last,here has been made available in the U.K. Since the original release the album has become a Christmas Classic having charted on the Billboard Christmas Charts reaching #6 in 1965;#13 in 1966,#19 in 1967 and #26 in 1970. In 1978 it was reissued on Motown's Natural Resources Label on a vinyl album and audio cassette with gift wrap cover art. The original album became available on CD in 1986 and also in that year coupled with Stevie Wonder's Christmas LP Someday At Christmas. In 1999, besides this U.K. compilation,it was released in the U.S as an audio cassette reissue with a variation of the original cover art and more important on CD reissued with the original cover art and expanded to include four bonus tracks and two hidden tracks of a Christmas and a Holiday Message. In 2003 that version was re-released as The Best of The Supremes-The Christmas Collection,with the front cover art a close up of The Supremes in the Elf Hats. This year that version is coupled with the Diana Ross & The Supremes #1's as a Gift Pack. The reason this Christmas album has remained so popular is each track is filled with excellent vocals and superb arrangements,that are timeless. Diana Ross's elocution is flawless and Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson's supporting vocals are joyous. The album includes an equal share of songs celebrating the birth of Christ-Born of Mary;an original Supremes Single-Children's Christmas Song, The Little Drummer Boy, Little Bright Star and an resounding version of Joy to The World. Children will enjoy Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Two other songs worthy of recognition are Diana's melancholy vocals on Jimmy Webb's My Christmas Tree and My Favorite Things, that proceeds Barbra Streisand's inclusion on her 1967 A Christmas Album(often touted to be the first artist to include that song from The Sound of Music on a Christmas Album). If you enjoy this album get the expanded edition which includes the previously unreleased Noel and Florence Ballard's lead vocals on Silent Night. The first verse of that song was first released in 1987 on The Supremes Never Before Released Masters and is by far the best version of that song by any artist-ever! Last year Josh Groban's Noel CD included a version with an arrangement nearly the same as Ballard's. Ballard talked of her early childhood days singing this tune from the window sill with the dream of becoming a singer in Peter Benjaminson's The Lost Supreme. Other songs including,the classics Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem and Oh Holy Night from the same sessions as these tunes have been released but not included on even the expanded edition. Let's hope one day there will be a Complete Christmas Collection release.
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SUPREME Enjoyment!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-05-14
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This classic and delightfully charming collection of Christmas songs by The SUPREMES will touch your spirit. DIANA ROSS and Florence Ballard's vocals really bring out the child like wonder of the Holiday Season!These legendary Motown artists are spectacular and Diana Ross is Supreme indeed!
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More for Christmas
Rating (4)
Date: 1999-05-01
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard actually recorded nearly two dozen songs for this album. It's a shame this beautiful piece of work is out of print but even more of a shame Motown hasn't pulled together all the recorded material into a full-collection C.D. (some of the tracks have been put on compilations). The most interesting parts of this album are the Motown originals, with "Little Bright Star" being an alternate lyric to a Tammi Terrell song.
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