Spend the holidays with the Disney Channel family as they sing classic and original songs sure to make your holiday jingle!This jam-packed CD includes 14 tracks of merry music the entire family can enjoy from your favorite Disney Channel Stars like Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Aly and AJ, The Cheetah Girls, Monique Coleman, Kyle Massey and more!
If Santa listened to Disney Channel Holiday on his in-sleigh stereo system Christmas Eve, he would get a speeding ticket for sure: Like Radio Disney Jingle Jams and Radio Disney: Holiday Jams, Vol. 2 before it, Hoiday revs the merry-making through the roof--it's as if the Cheetah Girls, Hannah Montana, Christy Carlson Romano, and the Jonas Brothers chased their candy canes with Red Bulls before heading into the studio. Even the gentler numbers throw off a little red-and-green fizz--Corbin Bleu's "This Christmastime," a song he co-wrote, captures the spirit of the season but will get inside the boogie shoes of sentimentalists at the same time, and Jordan Pruitt's "Celebrate Love" swerves likably away from solemnity despite the seriousness, and hopefulness, of its message. Kyle Massey cuts up on "Jingle Bells (A Hip-Hop Carol)," and Billy Ray Cyrus gets Rudolph running with a lighthearted twang; add it all up and you get a holiday disc no TV-watching 10-year-old should be without. --Tammy La Gorce
Let's make this short and sweet: If you enjoy the High School Musical/Hannah Montana axis of pop, you've gotta get this album. Even this Scrooge of a reviewer, who doesn't have much patience for holiday CDs, cannot stop playing it. Most of the big names in the Disney Channel galaxy are here, minus Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron. Among the more rocking offerings, special kudos go to Miley Cyrus (as Hannah Montana) and her raspy "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," which was recorded in 2006 for the Disney New Year's Parade but had remained unreleased; Jonas Brothers' "Girl of My Dreams;" and Aly & AJ's "Greatest Time of Year" (from their Acoustic Hearts of Winter album). The HSM crew represents with Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Lucas Grabeel and Ashley Tisdale (whose cover of Wham!'s "Last Christmas" is pop-tastic). Icing on the fruitcake: Christy Carlson Romano delivers an infectiously bouncy "Best Time of the Year" and Billy Ray Cyrus, a wise old man in this crowd, goes for bar-rockin' in "Run Rudolph Run." --Elisabeth Vincentelli
