Julien J Dumont Jr: Christmas CDs

CD INFORMATION

TITLE:
Christmas 2002

ALIAS:
Kenny G Christmas

CREATED:
12/23/2002

TRACKS:
18

LENGTH:
57:08

CD COMMENT:
This was our first CD that featured only one artist.

ART WORK COMMENT:
I experimented with a different font for the sond listing text on the back cover. Although it looks nice, I don't feel the text stood out enough against the back image, which I felt made it a little more difficult to read. I accidently printed several Tray Liners that had the reversed spines. By reversed I mean that the text 'Christmas 2002' was on the left spine instead of the right one. There were actually two versions of the reverse spine artwork. One had lettering with a dark outline, and others had the lettering with a light outline. Some of you might have either one of those.

SONG COMMENT:
This is a compilation of all the Kenny G Christmas CD's to date in 2002. We had used five Kenny G songs on the 2001 CD that I wish I had saved for this CD instead. I do like the song, 'Auld Lang Syne' because it has historical audio throughout the track. This CD is just over 57 minutes long, which makes it the only one to date (12/23/2007) that has not gone over 72 minutes.

MATLERIALS COMMENT:
I used a thicker photo paper for the artwork, which made it hard to bend when I had to fit it into the back layer of the CD case. This is the first year that I used the gold Maxell 700 MB CD's. The 700 MB CD's allow up to 80 minutes of music, where the 650 MB ones allowed around 75 minutes. This is the first year that I used the black tray liner jewell case.

DRAKE INTRO:
Drake sings his version of 'Holly Jolly Christmas'.

DRAKE OUTRO:
Drake was sick this year when he did this. He wasn't feeling well at all when I recorded his parts, but we had no choice because we were running late (Dec 23rd) with getting the CD done. He managed to get out, 'Feliz Navidad everybody. I love you, Bye'. Then he said, 'I got a belly ache this year, but I tried'.

CD MP3's:
Christmas 2002 (CD-zip)

Christmas 2002: Kenny G Christmas
FRONT	BACK	CD

SUBJECT: Drake & Santa Jr. LOCATION: National Christmas Center (Paradise, PA) DESCRIPTION: Drake & Santa Jr sitting on Santa's Sleigh.	SUBJECT: River LOCATION: Route 896 (Lancaster, PA) DESCRIPTION: This is a river between the Good 'N Plenty restaurant and a farm on a very busy road. There was a fresh snowfall the day before this picture was taken. We liked the way it looked so we decided to use it for the CD.	SUBJECT: None LOCATION: None DESCRIPTION: None
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TRACK #	ARTIST NAME	TRACK TITLE	LENGTH
1	Drake Dumont	Holly Jolly Christmas	0:42
2	Kenny G	Joy To The World	2:27
3	Kenny G	Greensleeves	3:27
4	Kenny G	Deck The Halls / The Twelve Days Of Christmas	2:59
5	Kenny G	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful	4:35
6	Kenny G	The Chanukah Song	2:28
7	Kenny G	Do You Hear What I Hear?	3:07
8	Kenny G	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	3:22
9	Kenny G	Away In A Manger	2:36
10	Kenny G	White Christmas	3:01
11	Kenny G	Silent Night	3:45
12	Kenny G	The First Noel	3:06
13	Kenny G	Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring	2:04
14	Kenny G	O Christmas Tree	2:38
15	Kenny G	We Three Kings / Carol Of The Bells	4:07
16	Kenny G	Silver Bells	4:00
17	Kenny G	Auld Lang Syne (The Millennium Mix)	7:52
18	Drake Dumont	Feliz Navidad Everybody	0:46