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Elvis Presley - It Won't Seem Like Christmas Without You

Release CD: 2011 (Route Records)

Incl. Covers + Tags + Cue

01 It Wont Seem Like Christmas Without You      
02 On A Snowy Christmas Night      
03 If Everyday Was Like Christmas (alternate version)      
04 Where No One Stands Alone      
05 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (alternate master)     
06 If We Never Meet Again      
07 The Wonderful World Of Christmas      
08 He Touched Me     
09 Merry Christmas Baby (complete studio performance)     
10 Reach Out To Jesus     
11 If I Get Home On Christmas Day     
12 His Hand In Mine     
13 O Come All Ye Faithfull (take 2)      
14 Holly Leaves And Christmas Trees     
15 Silent Night     
16 We Call On Him (take 3)      
17 White Christmas (with count in)      
18 Somebody Bigger Then You and I (take 12)      
19 Here Comes Santa Claus     
20 Silver Bells (take 1)     
21 Santa Bring My Baby Back (remix version)      
22 O Little Town of Bethlehem (remix duet with Karen Fairchild / Kimberly Schlapman)     
23 Winter Wonderland (remix duet with Hanna Pakarinen)     
24 The Christmas Song / Oh Holy Night (one liners)      
25 The First Noel (remix)      
26 Santa Claus is Back in Town (live, June 27, 1968 - 8 p.m.)     
27 Blue Christmas (remix duet with Martina McBride, 69 Comeback Show)     
28 Christmas Message From Elvis / I'll Be Home For Christmas (remix duet with Carrie Underwood)     
29 Jingle Bells (instrumental,  informal recording, December 4, 1956)     

Notes: Reprint of the vinyl album "It Won't Seem Like Christmas Without You" (1982, UK)

The vinyl album was released in 1982 in the UK. 
It featured some great gems, that are very hard to find these days. 
Some highlights are take 2 of O Come, All Ye Faithful. 
Running more than a minute longer than the original version, it has Elvis singing the first verse one more time, 
to the accompaniment of an organ, lending the song an almost sacred character. 
And the ending is dynamic, with Elvis raising his voice one octave higher than on the original. 
Another highlight is the (then) unreleased master of the remake of I'll Be Home On Christmas Day.

Also, there's the alternate version of If Every Day Was Like Christmas,
the very hard to find duet versions of Winter Wonderland with Hanna Pakarinen and Blue Christmas with Martina McBride 
(this is the famous '68 comeback show' version, never released on CD before and now available in stunning sound quality ).

And, ofcourse, theres many, many more... for the first time you have a single disc with all Elvis' 
christmas / gospel highlights. No endless takes, no endless chatter... put the disc in your cd player and 
you will have a marvelous christmas! Coming in a superb longbox digipack sleeve, this is the ultimate 2011 Elvis christmas gift.