It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Series: Afterglow: Jazz and American Popular Song
From: WFIU
Length: 00:58:58

An hour-long, traditional jazz-and-popular song tribute to Christmas featuring Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Diana Krall and many more. Perfect for the weeks and days leading up to Dec. 25. Read the full description.

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And who better to say it--or sing it--than Bing Crosby? "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" features classic Christmas recordings from Crosby, Nat King Cole, Vince Guaraldi, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as music from Dianne Reeves, Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Ray Charles and more-including a vintage radio broadcast of Les Brown's "Swingin' the Nutcracker Suite." A traditional jazz-and-popular song tribute to Christmas, perfect for the weeks and days leading up to Dec. 25.