Various Artists - Elf: Music From The Major Motion Picture

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It takes a pretty deft touch to make us believe towering Will Ferrell as a displaced human cum Santa's elf, Ed Asner as St. Nick and make a Christmas movie that's as loopy/sassy as it is seasonally sentimental. Yet that's what director Jon Favreau has done with this unlikely little holiday gem, and his hand-picked song score underscores its warm heart and comedic smarts with charm to burn. Suffused with a New York sense of traditional cool, Favreau turns his soundtrack into an upbeat secular Christmas classic, a sort of Swingers-Meet-Santa collection that convinces us that performances as diverse as Louis Prima's rousing take on "Pennies From Heaven" and the pumping soul of Billy Preston's "Nothing From Nothing" are as season-friendly as the performances of more traditional Christmas pop fare by Ella Fitzgerald, Jim Reeves, Eartha Kitt and Eddy Arnold they bookend. The edited Ferrante & Teicher/Les Baxter medley is a lounge-y inspiration, while a trio of laconic Leon Redbone crooners anchor the film's dizzy, if often bittersweet emotional foundations. Co-star Zooey Deschanel duets with Redbone on "Baby It's Cold Outside," her bluesy performance a welcome surprise that recalls nothing less than a young Peggy Lee. --Jerry McCulley

• Format: Soundtrack
• Track Listings : Disc 1
  • Pennies From Heaven - Louis Prima
  • Sleigh Ride - Ella Fitzgerald
  • Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - Lena Horne
  • Sleigh Ride / Santa Claus Party - Ferrante And Teicher/Les Baxter
  • Baby It's Cold Outside - Leon Redbone/Zooey Deschanel
  • Jingle Bells - Jim Reeves
  • Nutcracker Suite - Brian Setzer
  • Christmas Island - Leon Redbone
  • Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt
  • Winter Wonderland - Leon Redbone
  • Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Eddy Arnold
  • Nothing From Nothing - Billy Preston

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