Wrapping: Minimalist blue and silver, just a name, title and a giant snowflake.
Content: A Christmas mini-album, reissued from 2003; five tracks of big voice and big background sound including The Christmas Song and I’ll Be Home For Christmas.
Style: Traditional big band – exactly what you’d expect from the crooner.
’Tis the reason to be jolly: Opening track Let It Snow lasts only two minutes.
Scrooge moan: There are another four tracks to get through.
White Christmas: It is, and it’s given the trombone treatment. Lots of brass underpinned by Bing-like vocal.
Blue Christmas? Blue is confined to album sleeve’s colour scheme.
Stocking or shocking? Shocking for me, not my taste at all, but stocking for some elder stateswomen of the family.
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