Child's Celebration of ChristmasMusic for Little PeopleDescription: EDITORIAL REVIEWS This is all over the place from Spike Jones to Run DMC the Roches to Stevie Wonder Gene Autry to the Singing Dogs. That makes it an interesting collection but hardly the kind of album one would put on to create a mood. Unless you're a kid of course which is just the point. Ross Boissoneau All Music Guide AMAZON You can't quite help but love a kids' Christmas album that will bravely package rappers Run-D.M.C. with folkies Robin and Linda Williams or the pop-folkie Roches as they take delightful liberties with Frosty the Snowman and Chuck Berry's rockin' classic Run Rudolph Run. Even more satisfying is the touching Tish Hinojosa tune sung from the point of view of a young girl as she grows up and has her own kids (Arbolito) Pete Seeger's Behold the Star and Gene Autry's cowboy croon on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. With other cool Yule tracks from Stevie Wonder the Beach Boys and one Odds Bodkin--plus added levity from the Singing Dogs (barking their way through Jingle Bells) Spike Jones and Art Moony--the diverse diversity-shaped disc has only one flaw: it will leave you pining for more. --Martin Keller
