A Rosie Christmas

Performer: Rosie O'Donnell
Artist: Lauryn Hill; N Sync; Elton John; Billy Joel; Trisha Yearwood; Celine Dion; Rosemary Clooney; Gloria Estefan; Donny Osmond
Producer: Ric Wake
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: All profits from A ROSIE CHRISTMAS are donated to The For All Kids Foundation. Personnel includes: Rosie O'Donnell, Lauryn Hill, Billy Joel, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, 'N Sync, Elton John, Trisha Yearwood, Donny Osmond, Billy Porter, Rosemary Clooney (vocals). A Rosie Christmas features Rosie O'Donnell in duets with stars like Billy Joel and Celine Dion. O'Donnell teams up with Lauryn Hill for "Little Drummer Boy," performs "White Christmas" with Elton John and duets on "Love's In Our Hearts" with N'Sync. Children's favorites like Angelica from Rugrats and Elmo The Muppet also sing with Rosie on tracks like "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and "Do You Hear What I Hear." Gloria Estefan, Donny Osmond, Rosemary Clooney and Billy Porter also make appearances on this warm holiday collection, the proceeds from which go to the For All Kids Foundation. ~ Heather Phares Actually, this collection of holiday duets is more like "A Very Middlebrow Christmas," but since talk show diva O'Donnell can actually sing (in an endearingly New Yawkish way), and since the the proceeds all go to her For All Kids charity foundation, why be churlish? Actually, this high-gloss album has genuine moments of wit and more soul than you'd expect. The influence of ultimate Christmas album auteur Phil Spector hovers around several songs, particularly the contributions by Celine Dion and Trisha Yearwood. Cher--who actually sang backup on the original Spector Christmas LP, remakes that album's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" as a percolating late-'90s dance track (Rosie's answering vocal comes complete with the vocoder gimmick from "Believe"). Elsewhere, Billy Joel contributes a straight big-band version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," Sesame Street's Elmo guests on an amusing "Do You Hear What I Hear," and Lauryn Hill perpetrates a radical deconstruction of "Little Drummer Boy."

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