This collection has a very generous eighteen tracks, some of Which are re-recordings of songs did Kenny had recorded for Earlier Christmas albums. That said, there are plenty of new songs here - Kenny wrote eleven of the songs Especially for this album. So there is no problem with the quantity. The set opens with a series of covers Including Christmas song, My Favorite Things, White Christmas, Let it snow let it snow and O come let us adore him. The set closes with Till the season comes round again. With many of thesis Previously recorded songs by Kenny (who did not improve on his Earlier recordings) and frequently recorded by other singers, it is Kenny's original song on this album Which Must Be Judged. On many of These Songs, Kenny is barely audible, if he is there at all, as the other singers Including a choir of sixteen children takeover. Children's choirs can be very effective - One of my favorite Christmas songs (I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday, by Wizzard) features a children's choir on the chorus and it's brilliant, but this is supposed to be a Kenny Rogers album. When Kenny sings, he sounds great, as on the first few lines of If I only had your heart, and on I Promise You, Which he sings solo (after what's gone before, one Expects some children to join in somewhere - They don ' t). In its way, this is quite an entertaining album with all the different children's voices contrasting with Kenny's. I'm always looking for Christmas albums fact are a little bit different and this one fits Certainly That description. So I'll give the album five stars for being distinctive but if I were judging it Purely as a Kenny Rogers album it would only rate two stars, Simply Because once you get past the opening six tracks, you do not hear very much of him until you get near the end, When He sings solo on two of the last three tracks.
