Rest You Merry: Songs for the Holiday Season (Sears & Conner) CD

Description

“This homespun enterprise offers pleasures. Conner’s arrangements are sophisticated and Sears puts over every word, making it clear and meaningful, and his sense of rhythm is unfailing. Sears can deliver a Christmas song with unaffected intelligence and feeling.”

(Richard Dyer, Boston Globe) 

 

REST YOU MERRY

A Holiday Cabaret

 

1. Winter Wonderland

Dick Smith & Felix Bernard

2. Let It Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne

3.† & 4. Happy Christmas, Little Friend

Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers

5.† & 6. Wintertime Medley

Skating Vince Guaraldi 

Once Upon a Wintertime

Ray Gilbert & Bobby Worth 

Snow Flakes* 

Arthur Jackson & George Gershwin 

7.† & 8. Little Jack Frost Get Lost

Al Stillman & Seger Ellis

9. You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

Dr. Suess (Theodore Geisel) & Albert Hague

10.† & 11. The Man in the Red Suit

Here Comes Santa Claus

Gene Autry & Oakley Haldeman

Up on the House Top (Rag)* 

B. R. Hainby/arr. Brian Dykstra

Mister Santa Pat Ballard

Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town

Haven Gillespie & J. Fred Coots

12.†& 13. Pine Cones and Holly Berries

Meredith Willson

14.†& 15. Jazz Christmas Carol* 

English carol/arr. Jerome Kern

16. Silver Bells Jay Livingston & Ray Evans

17. The Twelve Days After Christmas

Frederick Silver

18. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin

19.†& 20. Happy Holidays to You!

Happy Holiday Irving Berlin

Santa Claus (A Syncopated Christmas Song) * 

Irving Berlin

Christmastime Seems Years and Years Away * 

Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder

Snow Irving Berlin

White Christmas Irving Berlin

 

*Premiere recording 

†Spoken Intro 

Arrangements by Bradford Conner