Snowflakes & Jazzamatazz

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℗ & © «2014 Secret Records»

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(As of 2022-12-30).

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Annotation last modified on 2022-12-30 10:43 UTC.

Tracklist

1▼Digital Media
#TitleRatingLength
1Happy Christmas From Shakatak (Bill's Christmas Message)
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
0:05
2Happy Christmas to Ya!
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
Happy Christmas to Ya!
3:30
3Jingle Bells
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
cover recording of:
Jingle Bells
lyricist and composer:
James Lord Pierpont (in 1850)
publisher:
Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
composed at and lyrics written at:
Simpson Tavern in Medford, Massachusetts, United States (in 1850)
3:45
4Silent Night
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
cover recording of:
Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation)
lyricist:
Josef Mohr (composer/author) (in 1816)
composer:
Franz Xaver Gruber (composer/author) (in 1818)
translator:
John Freeman Young (in 1859)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 27088)
translated version of:
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
4:15
5Sing (Litte One)
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
Sing (Litte One)
3:41
6The Christmas Song
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
cover recording of:
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
lyricist:
Robert Wells (songwriter) (in 1945-07) and Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) (in 1945-07)
composer:
Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) (in 1945-07)
publisher:
Chappell/Morris Ltd., MPL Music Publishing Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd., Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, Warner Chappell, Warner Chappell Ltd., Warner Chappell Music (holding behind all publishing activities of Warner Music Group, 2019–), Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty. Ltd. and Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc. (a division of MPL Communications Inc.) (from 1946 to present)
3:36
7When You Wish Upon a Star
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
3:17
8Winter Wonderland
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
cover recording of:
Winter Wonderland
lyricist:
Richard B. Smith (wrote lyrics to “Winter Wonderland”)
composer:
Felix Bernard
publisher:
Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc., EMI Music (do not use as release label! this is a music publisher), Francis, Day & Hunter, Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin), Warner Chappell Music Inc., Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty. Ltd., WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
3:06
9A Christmas Dream
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
cover recording of:
A Christmas Dream (from the 1974 film “The Odessa File”)
writer:
Andrew Lloyd Webber (English composer and impresario of musical theatre) and Tim Rice
3:33
10Auld Lang Syne
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
cover recording of:
Auld Lang Syne (original Scots version, lyrics by Robert Burns)
lyricist:
Robert Burns (18th century Scottish poet/lyricist) (in 1788)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 6294)
4:35
11Away in a Manger
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
cover recording of:
Away in a Manger (aka “Cradle Song” composed by William J. Kirkpatrick)
additional lyricist:
Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (in 1892)
lyricist:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
composer:
William James Kirkpatrick (hymn-writer) (in 1895)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 25304)
is based on:
Sweet Afton (set to music by Jonathan E. Spilman, 1837)
translated version of:
Y Preseb
3:09
12Blue Christmas
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
3:59
13Christmas Eve
assistant engineer:
John Davies (engineer, collaborated with regular partner Nigel Stock)
engineer:
Robin Sellars (British recording engineer)
producer:
Nigel Wright (British producer, orchestrator and songwriter)
bass guitar:
George Anderson (Shakatak bassist)
keyboard:
Bill Sharpe
membranophone:
Roger Odell
vocals:
Jill Saward
recorded at:
Skratch Studios in Surrey, England, United Kingdom
3:20
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