Wrapping: Stylish 1950s graphic baubles on sleeve and six-page booklet with photos, full details of songs, musicians and backing singers.

Style: Fabulous 1950s, HiLos-style, jazzy vocal harmonies Content: Nine mainly traditional songs, plus three Teal originals, one a humorous take on Christmas infidelity, Skating On Thin Ice.

’Tis the reason to be jolly: Pianist Grant Windsor and Clare are a dream partnership, plus top bass, drums, luscious backing vocals and immaculate production.

Scrooge moan: After two hearings, title song Jing-a-Ling has a similar effect to that VHS tape in Japanese horror film, Ring, but instead of suicide you want to go out and kill someone, anyone. It is also uncomfortably close to the Goons’ Ying Tong Song.

White Christmas?: No.

Blue Christmas?: Aside from Jing-a-Ling, the songs beat the blues, particularly Clare’s own A Little Whisky (Some Chocolate And You) and Frank Loesser’s What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve.

Shocking or Stocking: Even the most jaded mums and dads will warm to this quality programme of jazzy vocals.