![]() ![]() Nick Martinelli, though a major fan of Ross, is perhaps not the most obvious choice as producer. It does not let you down.īut there are surprises. If you are any kind of fan, you can surely anticipate what this sounds like. Here is a mature, highly engaged Diana Ross singing seasonal material in a sympathetic, orchestrated setting. Her aim was to make the best possible, utterly sincere Christmas record she could – a plan that paid off perfectly. Ross’ gambit here was not to transform the standards found on A Very Special Season. If you’re looking for an album that offers edgy, experimental adaptations of snowy classics, yet still in a Christmas mood, we politely direct you towards The Soulful Strings’ The Magic Of Christmas instead. Listen to A Very Special Season on Apple Music and Spotify. Which begs an obvious question: when you’ve cut as many Christmas records as Diana Ross, what could you bring to yet another one? Especially as there are plenty of songs on A Very Special Season that have been both crooned and butchered by numerous other artists. She had released a seasonal set with The Supremes in 1965, they’d delivered the Latin-Christmas standard “Feliz Navidad” in 1968, appeared on numerous seasonal compilations for Motown (among them the 1973 classic, A Motown Christmas), and, as if to prove that any Christmas without Diana is barely Christmas at all, the singer had even turned up alongside José Carreras and Plácido Domingo on a live album, Christmas In Vienna, in 1993. Diana Ross was no stranger to performing Christmas songs by the time she recorded A Very Special Season in 1994.
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