5 Chinese Brothers - A Window Shopper's Christmas
A Window Shopper's Christmas
By 5 Chinese Brothers
Very Good Condition
This is not your typical Christmas album. 5 Chinese Brothers adopt a variety of generic folk, country, and rock & roll song styles and then write new, gently comic, Christmas-themed lyrics over them. For example, "Dept. Store Santa Claus Strike" borrows the talking-blues folk song structure most familiar from Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd" for a tale of Santa's management-labor dispute, while "The Fruitcake Song" borrows the shave-and-a-haircut rhythm of "Bo Diddley" to discuss the persistence of that most inedible of Christmas foods, and "Missing Miss December" is a rock & roll tune about a centerfold. The result is a likable collection that will serve as a change-of-pace from those Bing Crosby and Mannheim Steamroller records during the holiday season. William Ruhlmann
Tracklist
| 1 | Make The Rafters Sing | 3:07 |
| 2 | Rockin' In The Manger | 3:19 |
| 3 | And To All A Good Night | 3:33 |
| 4 | Making Angels In The Sand | 2:48 |
| 5 | Honky Tonk Christmas | 3:02 |
| 6 | Missing Miss December | 3:14 |
| 7 | Dear Santa | 3:15 |
| 8 | Age-Old Story | 2:50 |
| 9 | Christmas On Interstate 80 | 3:14 |
| 10 | The Fruitcake Song | 4:02 |
| 11 | O Little Town Of Bethlehem | 1:15 |
| 12 | Dept. Store Santa Claus Strike | 3:58 |
| 13 | Christmas In Manhattan | 2:39 |
