Smokey Robinson - Christmas Everyday '2017

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Smokey Robinson, in collaboration with Amazon Originals, will release his
first-ever solo holiday album, Christmas Everyday, available exclusively on
Amazon Music November 10. Christmas Everyday is Motown master Smokey
Robinson’s divine 10-song holiday gift to the world, co-produced with
Adam Anders (“Glee”). The album consists of three pieces
thoughtfully composed by Robinson, along with seven renditions of his personal
favorite carols and hymns. Special guests include dynamic vocal sextet Take 6,
New Orleans party-starter Trombone Shorty, acclaimed soul revivalists The Dap
Kings, and harmonically astounding husband-and-wife team Us The Duo. “I
was quite pleased when I was approached about doing a holiday album,”
Robinson states. “I love the feeling of Christmas…what I call
‘The Christmas Aura,’ and these are some of my absolute favorite
songs. Folks are going to be surprised by some of the arrangements. I’m
very happy to share this music with everyone...excited, in fact!” Sessions
and brainstorming for Christmas Everyday were done by Robinson and Anders in the
latter’s home studio in Los Angeles. “We had a good working
relationship and a great time,” Robinson enthuses. “We were both
very open to each other’s creativity. I’d give him a song idea and
the key I wanted to sing it in, he’d do a treatment and then we’d
work side by side to buff it to perfection.” For this album, Robinson
shares own take on classics like “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,”
where St. Nick is in the midst of a second line parade or by bringing listeners
down to Brazil with a Bossa Nova-inspired version of Bing Crosby’s
“White Christmas.” Christmas Everyday also finds Robinson embracing
two R&B Christmas classics: “Please Come Home for Christmas” (first
written and recorded in 1960 by singer/pianist Charles Brown - a favorite of his
mother’s) and “This Christmas” (first composed and recorded
in 1970 by singer/keyboardist/arranger Donny Hathaway – a personal
acquaintance of Smokey’s). As the leader, lead singer and primary
composer for Motown singing group The Miracles, Smokey Robinson recorded two
long-cherished previous holiday albums: Christmas with The Miracles
(Tamla/Motown -1963) and The Season of Miracles (Tamla/Motown – 1970),
the latter highlighted by two songs specially composed by Stevie Wonder.
However, Christmas Everyday is a more far-reaching and personal contemporary
collection as Robinson’s first-ever solo holiday album. In addition to
his updated re-recording of the 1963 title track “Christmas
Everyday,” Robinson also composed the reverent spiritual message
“The Night That Baby Was Born” and the romantic message song titled,
“You’re My Present” – a reminder that possessing true
love is far better than any material trinket and a message that Robinson has
been conveying in song for nearly six decades. Christmas Everyday Tracklist: 1.
“Santa Claus is Coming to Town” 2. “This Christmas” 3.
“The Christmas Song” 4. “White Christmas” 5.
“Silent Night” 6. “The Night That Baby was Born” 7.
“Please Come Home for Christmas” 8. “Christmas Everyday”
9. “You’re My Present” 10. “O’ Holy Night”
Former Motown Records Vice President William “Smokey” Robinson
– inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of
Fame, a Kennedy Center Honoree, National Medal of Arts recipient and a GRAMMY
Living Legend - has composed over 4,000 songs: for himself (“Just To See
Her,” “Cruising,” “Quiet Storm”), The Miracles
(“Ooo Baby Baby,” “The Tracks of My Tears,” “The
Tears of a Clown”) and other Motown legends including The Temptations
(“My Girl”), Marvin Gaye (“Ain’t That Peculiar”)
and Mary Wells (“My Guy”). His songs have been covered by artists
the world over from England’s The Beatles to California’s Kim
Carnes. New Wave band ABC dedicated a song tribute to Robinson in the `80s
entitled “When Smokey Sings.” And Bob Dylan has proclaimed him as
the “greatest living poet.”


Tracklist:
1 01. Smokey Robinson - Santa Clause Is Coming to Town (feat. Trombone Shorty)
(02:33)
1 02. Smokey Robinson - This Christmas (03:21)
1 03. Smokey Robinson - The Christmas Song (03:49)
1 04. Smokey Robinson - White Christmas (02:55)
1 05. Smokey Robinson - Silent Night (04:15)
1 06. Smokey Robinson - The Night That Baby Was Born (04:34)
1 07. Smokey Robinson - Please Come Home for Christmas (02:48)
1 08. Smokey Robinson - Christmas Everyday (feat. Us the Duo) (02:44)
1 09. Smokey Robinson - Youre My Present (feat. the Dap Kings) (04:15)
1 10. Smokey Robinson - O Holy Night (feat. Take 6) (04:27)

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