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

Christmas Everyday

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 Robinsonâ€™s divine 10-song holiday gift to the world, co-produced with Adam Anders (â€œGleeâ€). 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. â€œI was quite pleased when I was approached about doing a holiday album,â€ Robinson states. â€œI love the feeling of Christmasâ€¦what I call â€˜The Christmas Aura,â€™ and these are some of my absolute favorite songs. Folks are going to be surprised by some of the arrangements. Iâ€™m very happy to share this music with everyone...excited, in fact!â€ Sessions and brainstorming for Christmas Everyday were done by Robinson and Anders in the latterâ€™s home studio in Los Angeles. â€œWe had a good working relationship and a great time,â€ Robinson enthuses. â€œWe were both very open to each otherâ€™s creativity. Iâ€™d give him a song idea and the key I wanted to sing it in, heâ€™d do a treatment and then weâ€™d work side by side to buff it to perfection.â€ For this album, Robinson shares own take on classics like â€œSanta Claus is Coming to Town,â€ 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 Crosbyâ€™s â€œWhite Christmas.â€ Christmas Everyday also finds Robinson embracing two R&B Christmas classics: â€œPlease Come Home for Christmasâ€ (first written and recorded in 1960 by singer/pianist Charles Brown - a favorite of his motherâ€™s) and â€œThis Christmasâ€ (first composed and recorded in 1970 by singer/keyboardist/arranger Donny Hathaway â€“ a personal acquaintance of Smokeyâ€™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 â€“ 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 Robinsonâ€™s first-ever solo holiday album. In addition to his updated re-recording of the 1963 title track â€œChristmas Everyday,â€ Robinson also composed the reverent spiritual message â€œThe Night That Baby Was Bornâ€ and the romantic message song titled, â€œYouâ€™re My Presentâ€ â€“ 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. â€œSanta Claus is Coming to Townâ€ 2. â€œThis Christmasâ€ 3. â€œThe Christmas Songâ€ 4. â€œWhite Christmasâ€ 5. â€œSilent Nightâ€ 6. â€œThe Night That Baby was Bornâ€ 7. â€œPlease Come Home for Christmasâ€ 8. â€œChristmas Everydayâ€ 9. â€œYouâ€™re My Presentâ€ 10. â€œOâ€™ Holy Nightâ€ Former Motown Records Vice President William â€œSmokeyâ€ Robinson â€“ 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 (â€œJust To See Her,â€ â€œCruising,â€ â€œQuiet Stormâ€), The Miracles (â€œOoo Baby Baby,â€ â€œThe Tracks of My Tears,â€ â€œThe Tears of a Clownâ€) and other Motown legends including The Temptations (â€œMy Girlâ€), Marvin Gaye (â€œAinâ€™t That Peculiarâ€) and Mary Wells (â€œMy Guyâ€). His songs have been covered by artists the world over from Englandâ€™s The Beatles to Californiaâ€™s Kim Carnes. New Wave band ABC dedicated a song tribute to Robinson in the `80s entitled â€œWhen Smokey Sings.â€ And Bob Dylan has proclaimed him as the â€œgreatest living poet.â€
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Country USA
Brand DZZK
Manufacturer Smokey Robinson
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber B076R3FLKQ
ReleaseDate 2017-11-10
UnitCount 1
UPCs 191091536339
EANs 0191091536339

Country	USA
Brand	DZZK
Manufacturer	Smokey Robinson
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	B076R3FLKQ
ReleaseDate	2017-11-10
UnitCount	1
UPCs	191091536339
EANs	0191091536339

Christmas Everyday

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