The Ventures Christmas Album CD

• The Ventures Are the Greatest Instrumental Rock and Roll Group of All Time, and The Ventures’ Christmas Album Is the Greatest Instrumental Rock And Roll Christmas Album of All Time

• Perennial Favorite Has Been Out of Print for Years

• Features Wildly Inventive Arrangements That Morph from Hits of the Day into Christmas Favorites

• Real Gone Music’s Deluxe Expanded Edition Includes Both the Mono and Stereo Versions of the Album

• The Mono Version Has Never Been on CD

• Bill Kopp’s Liner Notes Include Quotes from Original Ventures Rhythm Guitarist Don Wilson

• Also Incudes a Testimonial from Danny Amis a.k.a. Daddy-O Grande of Los Straitjackets

• Remastered by Mike Milchner at SonicVision

• Added Photos

• A Key Christmas Release This Holiday Season...and Every Holiday Season!

There are some albums that should NEVER go out of print. And by the beard of St. Nick, the greatest instrumental rock ‘n’ roll Christmas record of all time is one of them! 1965’s The Ventures’ Christmas Album was and is an absolute marvel, setting the group’s trademark Mosrite guitar twang loose on wildly inventive arrangements that start out with then-current hit melodies and then morph into Christmas chestnuts. So, for instance, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” opens with “Wooly Bully,” “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” opens with “I Feel Fine,” and “Frosty the Snowman” opens with “Tequila” (Frosty is evidently feeling no pain)! But we at Real Gone Music aren’t content with merely copying previous reissues of this essential holiday platter; we’re including both the stereo version and, for the first time ever on CD, mono version of this album on a single disc, so you can hear it the way most people have heard it in the “modern” era and also hear it the way most people heard it when it first came out! What’s more, liner note writer Bill Kopp tracked down original Ventures rhythm guitarist Don Wilson for quotes (and got a testimonial from Danny Amis a.k.a. Daddy-O Grande of Los Straitjackets). Thrown in some vintage photos and you have a package everybody’s going to want to spin the entire holiday season!

1. Sleigh Ride
2. Snow Flakes
3. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
4. Jingle Bells
5. Jingle Bell Rock
6. Silver Bells
7. Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
8. Frosty the Snowman
9. Scrooge
10. Blue Christmas
11. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
12. White Christmas
13. Sleigh Ride
14. Snow Flakes
15. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
16. Jingle Bells
17. Jingle Bell Rock
18. Silver Bells
19. Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
20. Frosty the Snowman
21. Scrooge
22. Blue Christmas
23. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
24. White Christmas