More Sounds of Christmas is an album of Christmas music by Ramsey Lewis' Trio featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and released on the Argo label. This album peaked at No. 8 on the US Billboard 200.
Critical reception
Dennis Mac Donald of AllMusic gave More Sounds of Christmas a 4 out of 5 stars rating. He proclaimed "Again hampered by strings on too many cuts, on the plus side, this does contain the ultra-cool original, 'Eggnog,' featuring Lewis on celeste".
Track listing "Snowbound" (Clarence Kehner, Russell Faith) – 3:37 "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Traditional) – 2:43 "Egg Nog" (Ramsey Lewis) – 3:28 "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) – 2:30 "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont) – 2:33 "Plum Puddin (Eldee Young) – 2:58 "Snowfall" (Claude Thornhill) – 2:08 "We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins, Jr.) – 4:01 "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 4:22 "The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Kennicott Davis, Harry Simeone, Henry Onorati) – 2:26
Personnel Ramsey Lewis – piano, celeste El Dee Young – bass, cello Isaac "Red" Holt (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10), Steve McCall (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9) – drums Cleveland Eaton – bass (track 5) Abe Meltzer, Albert Muenzer, David Chausow, Everett Zlatoff-Mirsky, Harold Kupper, Harold Newton, Henry Ferber, Irving Kaplan, Mark Konrad, Sol A. Bobrov, Theodore Ratzer – string section (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10) Peter Eagle – harp (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10) John Avant – trombone (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10) King Fleming, Will Jackson – arranger (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10)
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