With two stellar holiday albums to her credit, fans will be ready whenever another Clarkson Christmas album comes around again. Hear all the best new Christmas & Holiday album releases and their best songs each week at New Releases Now. But Clarkson also includes some familiar upbeat material, including “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” “Santa Baby” and “Jingle Bell Rock.” Whatever the songs, they often come with full orchestration and plenty of studio polish, yet don’t sound overproduced. Clarkson has quipped that it’s a breakup holiday album (she recently went through a highly publicized divorce), and that describes songs like the lighthearted “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You)” or the more serious big ballad “Merry Christmas (To The One I Used To Know)” - two of the other strong originals on the album. ” is anything but the typical holiday album. It disguises some thorny emotions within a richly soulful melody that shows why Clarkson’s singing wowed judges all those years ago on “American Idol.” The song signals that “When Christmas Comes Around. They sing Donny Hathaway’s This Christmas, the Johnny Marks composition Holly Jolly Christmas, the beloved carol O Come All Ye Faithful and Phil Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich’s. ” - Clarkson’s second holiday album opens with a real show stopper - “Merry Christmas Baby” (one of seven Clarkson co-writes on the album, not the familiar R&B standard). Kelly Clarkson: “When Christmas Comes Around. The best non-holiday albums to warm you up this winter Blog Lifestyle Lifestyle The best non-holiday albums to warm you up this winter Blog Libby Reber The Daily Collegian Graphic by Sophia Montanye The holidays are in full swing, and there are plenty of songs and albums for students to listen to. We’ve collected them all here on this list of the greatest modern Hanukkah songs.Kelly Clarkson: 'When Christmas Comes Around. But there are also some gems from members of the tribe that aren’t widely known, including Bela Fleck, Matisyahu and, of course, the Jewish Elvis himself, Neil Diamond. You’ve got the late, great Sharon Jones finding the funk in ‘The Dreidel Song’ and Too $hort rapping about latkes and pinching tuchuses. Oddly enough, a good many of them are performed by gentiles. If you search around enough, you’ll find a trove of tunes worthy of a Festival of Lights playlist. But that doesn’t mean they’re not out there.

Even the most hardcore Hebrews would be hard pressed to name a modern Hanukkah song not written by Adam Sandler.

Hanukkah might stretch for eight nights, but when it comes to popular holiday songs, Christmas has it vastly outnumbered.

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