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The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs | 
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Artist: Boney M.
Label: Bmg Int'l
Category: Music
Buy New: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 159452
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 4007192581160
ASIN: B000006ZKK
Release Date: December 28, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Christmas Medley: Silent Night, Holy Night (Stille Nacht, Heilige ...) | | • | Oh Christmas Tree (Oh Tannenbaum) | | • | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | | • | Zion's Daughter (Tochter Zion) | | • | First Noel | | • | Oh Come All Ye Faithful | | • | Petit Papa Noel | | • | Darkness Is Falling (Es Wird Scho' Glei' Dumpa) | | • | Joy to the World | | • | White Christmas | | • | Jingle Bells | | • | Feliz Navidad | | • | When a Child Is Born | | • | Little Drummer Boy | | • | Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord | | • | Auld Lang Syne |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Includes 'Medley: Mary's Boy Child/ Oh My Lord', 'Auld Lang Syne', 'Hansa', 'Christmas Medley: Silent Night, Holy Night/Snow Falls Over The Ground/ Hear Ye The Message/ Sweet Bells', etc. 16 tracks total. 1986 release. NOTE - the title comes from the fact that two of the tracks are medleys - technically they perform 20 songs (or at least portions of 20).
Album Details
Released in 1986. Contains Six Holiday Season Classics Not Found on the 1981 Boney M X-Mas Release, "Christmas Album", Including: "Auld Lang Syne", "Joy to the World" and "First Noel".
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 The Best Christmas Carol one can ever hear December 3, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I would say this is the best Christmas carol one can ever hear.
The best Christmas album November 14, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Each song in this album is great. I used to never enjoy Christmas Carols, until I once heard one of these songs on the radio. I purchased the album and every song is simply great.
 A Fun (and Different) Christmas CD December 22, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I remember Boney M from the days of disco (late 70s, early 80s) and wasn't a huge fan, but I admit I bought this album because the medley of Mary's Boy Child and O My Lord gets played a lot on the radio every Christmas season. Happily, the whole album is good, with the group sounding mellow (but still with a prominent beat) at the right times. For me a good Christmas CD combines some old favorites (this one has Joy to the World, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, The First Noel, Silent Night, etc) with some pretty but unfamiliar songs (Hear Ye the Message, Zion's Daughter, Petit Papa Noel). Boney M can sound delicate and lullabyish on a song like Petit Papa Noel or A Child Is Born, but almost anthemic and bouncy on Joy to the World and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. If you're like me, you get tired of the radio's constant play of Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, Burl Ives, etc, and this is a nice alternative--still has that 'sweet' sound you expect of a Christmas CD, but also with that toe-tapping, shake-your-body quality you'd expect from a group that was part of the disco era. Incidentally, the album ends with a very rocky version of Auld Lang Syne--not only is the beat good, but you actually get to hear the 2nd and 3rd voices of that old song.
classssss-ik innocence December 15, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There's something about the subtle combination of camp and Christmas. This was a classic in my house when I was younger: my parents owned the tape, though Boney M was not quite their demographic's genre. Fond memories include listening to this as I walked through the malls in mid-December, my mother running it on a continuous loop while she did her holiday baking, and having blaring in the background on Christmas Eve while the folks hosted their annual fondue (though that says it all right there). I suppose this was a trendy album at the time, perhaps more akin to the latest offering from the Barenaked Ladies (though never as grim as "Hung for the Holidays"). It struck a chord at the innocence for the holidays, kid-friendly, spiritual -- but not overtly and in your face. Just a happy, upbeat Christmassy-type album.
 What a disappointment! March 17, 2000
18 out of 23 found this review helpful
With Boney M.'s big selling Christmas album from 1981, producer Frank Farian recorded six new Christmas songs with Liz Mitchell and Reggie Tsiboe (who'd replaced dancer Bobby Farrell in 1982) in the summer of 1984; they were, however, only released at the time on a South African LP, but when Boney M. had split up in 1986, Farian wanted to keep the kettle boiling and dug out these disappointingly mediocre recordings, remixed the whole 1981 album but two songs, and released the whole mess in November 1986. And the result is awful! Get the original "Christmas Album" instead (it is available on CD) when you want to get in a Christmas mood, this CD sounds as supermarket muzak ...
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