Teddy Pendergrass, This Christmas (I'd Rather Have Love) - 49m 49s

Tracks & Durations

1. Joy To The World	5:02
2. Little Drummer Boy	4:07
3. Christmas And You	4:09
4. The Christmas Ssong	4:09
5. Having A Christmas Party	4:35
6. I Won't Have Christmas	3:16
7. We Three Kings	5:28
8. Oh Holy Night	4:20
9. Happy Kwanzaa	5:12
10. This Christmas (I'd Rather Have Love)	3:47
11. Happy Christmas	5:38

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Review

Teddy Pendergrass's distinctive husky voice and soul-man persona turn Christmas standards and inspired originals throughout This Christmas (I'd Rather Have Love) into a lovable Tedfest. While many similar records and their singers tend to overproduce and oversing holiday work, Pendergrass and company keep the schlocky string arrangements and excessive emoting to a minimum. They've also cranked out great holiday tunes in "Having a Christmas Party" and "Happy Kwanzaa," and devised tasty new versions of "Joy to the World" and "We Three Kings." The former gets a lilting funk treatment while the latter works as a jazzy, bluesy ballad. In his most surprising choice of covers, Pendergrass even reinvents John and Yoko's "Happy Xmas" as a romantic plaint and plea for racial harmony. --Martin Keller

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