Jay Landers, Kristin Chenoweth, and Calum Scott on ”A Sentimental Christmas with Nat King Cole & Friends”

For this Christmas season, producer Jay Landers put together "A
Sentimental Christmas with Nat "King" Cole," an album that
refreshes some of Cole's holiday classics with new arrangements
and a handful of new duets with new singing partners Johnny
Mathis, John Legend, Gloria Estefan and more. 


Today on the show, Landers talks about the hows of whys of
putting together this kind of project, and why Cole continues to
sing these duets well after his death. Kristin Chenoweth and
Calum Scott are two of Cole's singing partners this time around,
and they talk about the experience, Cole, and what they learned
about him in the process.


Singer Alexandra Scott returns this week to talk about Icelandic
pop artist Dadi Freyr and the Christmas songs he released in 2020
and 2021. 


This episode ends with a lovely cover of Low's "Just Like
Christmas" by Gabrielle Aplin. Last year, Alan Sparhawk and Mimi
Parker appeared on Twelve Songs in an episode that felt
surprisingly intimate and, perhaps for that reason, became more
personal than I expected. 


This episode of Twelve Songs is sponsored by Car-Floats.com,
which makes reusable fabric stickers for your car. 


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