Official Video: Mariah Carey featuring Patricia Carey - O Come All Ye Faithful

Mother of songbird, Mariah Carey, joins her daughter in a duet of a Christmas classic Oh Come All Ye Faithful. Patricia, who is a soprano brings more flavour and colour to the song when blended with the melismatic style and 5-octave range of this diva.

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Album Review: Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas II You

Mariah Carey comes back with a festive vengeance this holiday season! Her 13th studio album (and second holiday album) landed a few weeks ago and was performing very well on various charts both on Billboard and other international charts.

Merry Christmas II You is Mariah's second Christmas album (first was Merry Christmas released in Nov 1994), it peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200. The album contains MiMi's version of traditional Christmas/Yuletide cheers and gave them new life, much like how she did it on the first Christmas album and she also came up with new tracks that she worked with the likes of Jermain Dupri. Four new songs: Oh Santa, Christmas Time Is In The Air Again, When Christmas Comes and One Child were included. Oh Santa is the first single released off the album. MiMi also confirmed there is a video in the works for O Come All Ye Faithful

I like how she marked these traditional cheers with her singing character. My favourite rendition would have to Little Drummer Boy and The First Noel / Born Is The King. The album also contains a live version of O Holy Night which was done sometime in the 90s. I inferred so as I can tell by the sound of her voice that it wasn't a recent live recording. But still great, nonetheless. Another highlight of the album is a duet with her mother Patricia Carey for the song O Come All Ye Faithful. Finally, a new (as MiMi claims it, a more festive) version of her chart-topping Christmas hit All I Want For Christmas Is You also made the cut.

In my opinion, she had done an equally great job in rendering traditional songs to her own version however, in terms of the new tracks, I would say Merry Christmas had better tracks: All I Want For Christmas Is You, Miss You Most At Christmas Time, Jesus Born On This Day are three great tracks that you can listen to even if it's not in season. Probably due to better contributors and collaborators - Walter Afanasieff. 

The first album renditions sounded like as how her music was at that time while the second album showcased renditions that represent MiMi's evolved and current sound. 

Track list:

01. Santa Claus Is Coming Town (Interlude)

02. Oh Santa

03. O Little Town Of Bethlehem / Little Drummer Boy

04. Christmas Time Is In The Air Again

05. The First Noel / Born Is The King (Interlude)

06. When Christmas Comes

07. Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) / Housetop Celebration

08. Charlie Brown Christmas

09. O Come All Ye Faithful / Hallelujah Chorus

10. O Holy Night (Live from WPC in South Central, Los Angeles)

11. One Child

12. All I Want From Christmas Is You (Extra Festive)

13. Auld Lang Syne (The New Year's Anthem)

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Mariah says Merry Christmas II You

Great news for you lambs out there...

Mariah just announced on Twitter page that she will be coming up with a new Christmas album collection entitled Merry Christmas II You due out 2nd November 2010.

This decision may have been a result of her very successful 16-year old Merry Christmas album which every Christmas season re-enters the world charts peaking inside the top5/10.

As autumn leaves begin to fall, international superstar Mariah Carey puts the finishing touches on MERRY CHRISTMAS II YOU, her second career album of holiday tunes, arriving November 2nd on the Island Def Jam Music Group. Highlighting the long-awaited new album is a brand new recording of Mariah's all-time standard, "All I Want For Christmas Is You."   

In addition to traditional yuletide fare - The First Noel,  Little Drummer Boy, O Little Town of Bethlehem, O Come All Ye Faithful and more - MERRY CHRISTMAS II YOU also contains four original songs composed by Mariah, including the new single, Oh Santa, and many more surprises for the fans.  Producers on the new album include American Idol's Randy Jackson, multi-platinum hit-making producer Jermaine Dupri, James Poyser (acclaimed producer for Aretha Franklin, The Roots, Lauryn Hill and more), and five-time Oscar nominee and Grammy/Tony/Emmy award winning composer Marc Shaiman. 

Since it was first released, "All I Want For Christmas Is You," written by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, has become one of the essential musical hallmarks of the holiday season, and continues to set sales records each year.  The song hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Recurrents chart every year from 2005 to 2008.  After ringtones began to be charted in 2006, All I Want For Christmas Is You hit #1 for the next three consecutive holiday seasons.  It became the first seasonal Mastertone to be certified RIAA gold (2006) and RIAA platinum (2007), and is ranked as the top-selling seasonal ringtone of all-time."All I Want For Christmas is You" was the featured single from MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS II YOU is Mariah Carey's 13th studio album, and follows up her Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (released September 2009), her multi-platinum E=MC2 (2008), and worldwide 10 million selling The Emancipation Of Mimi (2005).  

source: MariahCarey.com



Isn't that something to look forward to this holiday season? What do you think?