Perfect Candidates Week Fifteen

Sorry I'm late with these (as if anyone was actually waiting for them) but Mother's Day weekend was surprisingly hectic.

It only took a few months but I've finally come to the realization that all this work has been unnecessary. The perfect Christmas compilation only needs a few tracks each from a couple of Johnny Mathis albums and you're all set. It took great determination to hold myself to six Mathis tunes in this week's additions.

1. A Merry Christmas Song - Living Strings & Living Voices
2. Angels We Have Heard on High - The Roches
3. Blue Christmas - Johnny Mathis
4. Comfort And Joy - Simon & Garfunkel
5. Do You Hear What I Hear - Andy Williams
6. Do You Hear What I Hear - Johnny Mathis
7. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - The Going Thing
8. Here Comes Santa Claus - Doris Day
9. Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas in Hawaii) - KT Tunstall
10. My Christmas Tree - The Going Thing
11. My Favorite Things - Living Strings & Living Voices
12. Ring Christmas Bells - We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Living Strings & Living Voices
13. Sleigh Ride - Johnny Mathis
14. Sleigh Ride - KT Tunstall
15. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) - Johnny Mathis
16. The Jolly Old Man In the Bright Red Suit - Vaughn Monroe
17. The Sounds of Christmas - Johnny Mathis
18. Twas the Night Before Christmas - Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians
19. Winter Wonderland - Johnny Mathis

Week 15 - Albums

Here are most of the albums I listened to, some more thoroughly than others naturally, while compiling this week's new additions to the master list. Song list to follow in a little while...

50,000,000 Santa Fans Can't Be Wrong! - The Dino Martinis
A Christmas Card - The Forester Sisters
A Christmas Carousel with Children's Bible Hour
A Christmas To Remember - The Jimmy Joyce Singers
A Family Christmas - John Tesh
A Sentimental Christmas - Gerry Beaudoin
A Sound of Christmas - Søren Sko
Brand New Year - Shedaisy
Cheetahlicious Christmas - Cheetah Girls
Chemistry Xmas - Girls Aloud
Chicago XXV - Chicago
Christmas - Kimberley Locke
Christmas - Tim Janis
Christmas 1968 With The Going Thing
Christmas Album - Johnny Mathis
Christmas At The Stables - Cleo Laine
Christmas Carousel - Peggy Lee
Christmas Classics - Burgess Meredith With Joe Reisman's Orchestra And Chorus
Christmas Disco Party - Max Fagen
Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis
Christmas Favorites Sung By The Magnificent Magnavox Chorus
Christmas Is For You - Paulette Carlson
Christmas Is The Time - Lou Rawls
Christmas Pan Flute, Vol. 2
Christmas Time - The Pete King Chorale And Orchestra
Christmas With Kitty Wells
Christmas With The Chipmunks
Christmas in Europe
Christmas in My Heart - Connie Francis
Christmas with Paul Anka
For Christmas - Johnny Mathis
Give Me Your Love for Christmas - Johnny Mathis
Hallelujah He Is Born - Sawyer Brown
Have Yourself A Very KT Christmas - KT Tunstall
Home for the Holidays - Trisha Yearwood
It's Christmas Time
Jack Jones Christmas Album
Laughing All The Way - Kitty Stallings
Let It Snow - Michael Buble
Marshmallow World & Other Holiday Favorites - Raul Malo
Marty Gold Children's Chorus - How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Merry Christmas - Andy Williams
Merry Christmas - Johnny Mathis
Music Box Christmas creations - Porter Music Box
Music For A Merry Christmas - Frank Chacksfield
Noels - Paul Mauriat
Nutcracker Suite - Duke Ellington
Osmond Family Christmas
Peace - Rotary Connection
Rock-A-Billy Christmas
Santa's Playlist - Sister Hazel
Simply The Best Christmas Album
Songs of the Season - Peter White
Sounds Like Christmas - The December People
Sounds of The Season - Elliott Yamin
Sounds of the Season - Taylor Swift
Spirit of the Carols - Thom Rotella
Star Bright - Vanessa Williams
Swing Along With Santa's Snowmen
The Christmas Album - The CompanY
The Joyous Sounds of Christmas - Johnny Largo at the Optigan
The Meaning of Christmas - Fred Waring
The Sounds of Christmas - Johnny Mathis
The Williams Brothers Christmas Album
Watching The Snow - Michael Franks
Well Seasoned - The Joy Strings
When It Snows - The Blenders
White Christmas - Living Strings & Living Voices

Nine more drops...

Nine more tracks drop from the main lis. Some wonderful music here - The Glad Singers were over-represented on the master list and so are over-represented here. I must have done half a dozen A/B comparisons of the Sinatra and Jack Jones versions of Mistletoe and Holly and in the end I found Sinatra's a bit too somber for the flavor the Perfect Mix is beginning to develop.

A new group of nominees coming soon (and it won't be a short list this time thanks to my hitting the Johnny Mathis section of my collection!)

1. Deck the Halls - The Glad Singers
2. Happy New Year - The Glad Singers
3. Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly/Wassail Song - Hugo Winterhalter
4. Gee Whiz, It's Christmas - Carla Thomas
5. Gloria (Angels We Have Heard on High) - The Glad Singers
6. We Wish You A Merry Christmas - The Kingston Trio
7. Winter Wonderland - The Three Suns
8. The Little Drummer Boy - Henry Mancini
9. Mistletoe And Holly - Frank Sinatra