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Christmas Hymns and Carols / You Do Something to Me

2004 compilation album by Mario Lanza

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ6764755 ↗
Source-derived summary

Christmas Hymns and Carols / You Do Something To Me is a "twofer" disc released in 2004 by the Collectibles label under licence to BMG. It incorporates two original Mario Lanza RCA Camden compilation LPs: Christmas Hymns and Carols and You Do Something To Me.

Christmas Hymns and Carols is a collection of carols and other religious songs recorded between 1950 and 1956. In addition to such familiar standards as "Silent Night" and "Away in a Manger," the compilation also includes "The Lord's Prayer" and the secular "Guardian Angels", the music for which was written by Harpo Marx.

You Do Something To Me is a compilation showcasing Mario Lanza's achievements in a number of genres, ranging from operatic arias to popular ballads. The selections were recorded between 1949 and 1953. Among the arias featured here is "Che gelida manina" from La Boheme, a recording that purportedly inspired conductor Arturo Toscanini to hail Lanza's as "the greatest natural tenor voice of the 20th century." A rare 1951 rendition of "Some Day" from The Vagabond King is also included.

References

Cesari, Armando. Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy (Fort Worth: Baskerville 2004).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Christmas Hymns and Carols / You Do Something to Me” is 2004 compilation album by Mario Lanza. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Christmas, Hymns and Carols, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 1950, 1956, 1949—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. For this dossier, Christmas, Hymns and Carols is the immediate research focus.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6764755. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1950, 1956 and 1949.

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This entry incorporates text from “Christmas Hymns and Carols / You Do Something to Me” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.