A Very Special Christmas 3

A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS 3
 
 
A Very Special Christmas 3  is the third in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit Special Olympics.  The album was released on 23 September 1997, and production was overseen by Bobby Shriver, Al Cafaro, and Linda Feder for A&M Records.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Wikipedia states:  “The band [Eleven] cites their major influences as Jimmy Page and Led ZeppelinQueenThe Beatles, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Sergei Prokofiev.  With Chris Cornell [of Soundgarden and Audioslave], they recorded [Natasha] Shneider’s arrangement of Franz Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’, which appears on the album, A Very Special Christmas 3 [1997], in the liner notes of which they state they deliberately chose a classical work to help interest young people in classical music.” 

 

(April 2015/1)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021