Any Major Christmas Soul Vol. 1
Christmas got funky, Christmas got soul! The analytical eagle-eyed reader may have deduced, by astute observation of the post’s title, that this year’s Christmas mix is dominated by soul music, and that there will be at least one more compilation. Indeed, there will be at least a second mix of Christmas soul tracks from the heyday of the genre – the 1960s and ’70s. I have held back a few cracking numbers anyway. Still, this is a really great bunch of songs. Whoever I got the utterly gorgeous opening track from, I am particularly grateful to. The Flirtations, one of the great girl-bands of the late 1960s, are unjustly forgotten. One singer appears twice on this selection: Minnie Riperton first duets with Sydney Barnes on the Rotary Connection’s Christmas Love, and later reappears as the lead singer of the girl group The Gems, whom she split from in 1965.
As always, the mix is times to fit on a standard CD-R. It also includes a front and back cover.
TRACKLISTING
1. The Flirtations – Christmas Time Is Here Again
2. Rotary Connection feat. Minnie Riperton – Christmas Love
3. The Emotions – What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas
4. The O’Jays – Christmas Ain’t Christmas (Without The One You Love)
5. William Bell – Everyday Will Be A Holiday
6. The Salem Travellers - Merry Christmas To You
7. Isaac Hayes - The Mistletoe And Me
8. The Staples Singers – Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas
9. Soul Duo – Just A Sad Christmas
10. Carla Thomas – Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas
11. Kim Weston – Wish You A Merry Christmas
12. Sam Cooke – Christmas Means Love
13. The Supremes – Twinkle Twinkle Little Me
14. The Skyliners - You’re My Christmas Present
15. Stevie Wonder – A Warm Little Home On A Hill
16. The Soul Stirrers - Christmas Means Love
17. The Gems – Love For Christmas
18. The Jackson 5 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
19. Al Green – I’ll Be Home For Christmas
20. Marvin Gaye – I Want To Come Home For Christmas
21. Ike & Tina Turner – Merry Christmas Baby
22. Gary Walker - Santa’s Got A Brand New Bag
23. Otis Redding – White Christmas
24. Joe Tex – I’ll Make Everyday Christmas (For My Woman)
25. Soul Searchers – Christmas In Vietnam
26. Smokey Robinson & The Temptations – The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)
27. Booker T. & The MG’s – Jingle Bells
GET IT HERE or GET IT HERE (PW in comments)
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Previous Christmas mixes:
Any Major Christmas in Black & White
More X-Mas in Black & White
Christmas Mix (Not For Mother)
Any Major Christmas Mix
Rudolph – Victim of Prejudice
PW = amdwhah
What? No Jay-Z with Alicia Keyes? :) Otherwise, a great line-up–thanks!
This looks great–thanks!
Humbug! ;-)
Terrific selection of the well-known and the more obscure. Thanks a lot.
i love your blog. just thought i’d point out that christmas means love is the same track by the souls stirrers and sam cooke. great collection, i don’t mind hearing it twice.
As someone who listens to awful Christmas music starting in October and doesn’t stop until the 25th, your holiday compilations are always a treat to download. I’m currently listening to “More Xmas in Black & White,” which I downloaded late last year and purposely saved for this season, knowing I’d need it. Can’t wait to hear this one as well. Thanks!
First time I’ve come across your blog. There’s some great stuff on this comp, thanks
Dude! Awesome compilation – I hope you don’t mind, but I posted a link to it, with your terrific graphic, on my site. I’ve been posting lots of pretty traditional Christmas music, and this was a nice compliment/antidote. And there was stuff there I’d NEVER heard – great.
Thanks.
I also added you to my blogroll – so much of the rest of your stuff is equally great.
Thanks one again Dude!!!