HAPPY KIDS X’MAS (JAPANESE CHRISTMAS SONGS)
by VARIOUS ARTISTS
Compact Disc
JPU067
Label: JPU RECORDS
HAPPY KIDS X’MAS features 25 festive classics sprinkled with super cute Japanese flavour. This heart-warming collection of kawaii Christmas hits includes recordings by Japan’s NHK Tokyo Children’s Choir, Ryoichi Fukuzawa (Winnie the Pooh, Beauty and the Beast), Noriko Namiki (Rurouni Kenshin, Hunter x Hunter) and many more choirs, anime voice actors and singers from Japan. The NHK Tokyo Children’s Choir has played an important part in popularising Japanese and overseas children’s songs in Japan and has toured the world and won various awards, including the BBC World Amateur Chorus Competition.
The collection also includes a number of Christmas tracks that are unique to Japan, such as “Awatenbou no Santa Clause” (Hasty Santa Clause), and Japanese nursery school favourite “Usagi Nohara no Christmas” (Christmas in the Rabbit Field), making this the perfect present for anyone interested in Japanese language, culture or alternative Christmas songs.
1. Christmas wo Tugeru Kyoukai no Kane
2. Joy to the World
3. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
4. Jingle Bells
5. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
6. Awatenbo no Santa Claus
7. Frosty The Snowman
8. Winter Wonderland
9. Sleigh ride
10. Omedeto Chirstmas
11. Deck the Hall With Boughs Of Holly
12. Santa Claud ga Yattekuru
13. Usagi Nohara no Christmas
14. Hayaku Aitai na Santa-san
15. Christmas no Hi wa
16. I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus
17. Shizuka na Christmas
18. The Christmas Song
19. Silent Night
20. O Come All Ye Faithful
21. Angels from the Realms of Glory
22. Hallelujah from Messiah
23. Eine Lustige Schlitten Partie
24. A Christmas Festival
25. White Christmas
