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A very fun 50s Christmas song. Don't miss the sleigh bells hammering out the first phrase to "Jingle Bells" toward the end. It's a laugh every time you hear it! One reviewer says this one is destined to become part of the Christmas canon. After you hear it, you will probably be on board with that.
BMI award-winning songwriter Charles Nathan (1921 - 2012) wrote: "I Want a Doll." It is a Swing-style Christmas song featuring Donna Courtell, voice, and Paul Biondi, Jazz-tenor-sax. It's an old Christmas song that's new! The pro singing of clever words, hot Jazz-tenor-sax playing, swinging rhythm section, and creative arrangement put this holiday-music production in a class by itself.
Crafted to "...make the season bright," the recording is a Christmas music must-listen for the holiday season! (The personnel for the track includes Donna Courtell, v. Paul Biondi, sax/cl. Gus Russell, p. Don Elkington, dr/perc. Don Latarski, g. and Greg Nathan, b.)
If you go to the home page and scroll down a bit, you'll see an opportunity for a free lead sheet to "I Want a Doll." That same opportunity is in place on the Holiday Season Sale page, which is also linked on the home page, or you can go there by clicking HERE.
Your purchase will include the "I Want a Doll" audio track, the leadsheet in the key of the recording, plus 3 different types of lyric sheets: vocal only, singer/player, and arranger.
Donna Courtell (2013), vocalist on "I Want a Doll".
As a professional singer, Donna has toured Alaska, Canada, Washington, Oregon, California, and Kansas City, Missouri, performing in lounges, dance rooms, and showrooms, with duos, trios, larger combos, including horns, and big bands. As the owner of Courtell Talent Agency, Donna has produced the national act stage for Springfield Utility Board's Fourth of July "Light Of Liberty" Fundraiser, bringing in Asleep At The Wheel, B.J. Thomas, Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits, The Ventures, Nokie Edwards, Johnny Rivers, Sha Na Na, and Paul Revere & The Raiders.
Eugene, Oregon had never seen a musician with such stature move into the area and go to work the way Paul Biondi did back in the '90s. Previously, in Los Angeles and on the road, Paul backed up such artists as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Ray Charles, Lena Horne, and toured for several years with Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, and Ike and Tina Turner. He also wrote and played on movie scores and television theme songs and performed with many famous individual artists, including Jimmy Smith, Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers, Jack Sheldon, Tex Beneke, Horace Height Jr., The Temptations, the Four Tops, The Drifters, The Platters, The Cadillacs, The Shirelles, and numerous other groups and artists.
