I Want to Spend Christmas with You
November 2020 Top Ten List - Taxi, "The World's Leading Independent A&R Company"
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There's a new Christmas song joining the classics this holiday season!
Christmastime is crooner time! Here's the new romantic Christmas ballad I wrote and produced, featuring crooner Michael Civisca.
I was inspired to write and record a holiday song my dad might have sung to my mom as newlyweds back in the day. Frank Sinatra was singing it in my head... RIP. After an international search, I recruited Michael Civisca, first brought into the spotlight on Michael Jackson’s MJJ label—and who once actually portrayed Sinatra in David Cassidy’s Las Vegas production, “The Rat Back is Back”.
After the recording session, I had an unshakable knowingness that I had a new Christmas classic on my hands—the kind of song destined for many artists to interpret their own unique ways in the eternal holiday soundscape. Indeed, the most common comment I get is that this song “sounds like a familiar Christmas standard I just hadn’t heard yet”. I know that “I Want to Spend Christmas with You” has a birthright to put a smile on so many hearts—and my job is to give it the wings it deserves.
Taxi—the industry's leading independent A&R company—selected the song unsolicited for their November 2020 Top Ten List. The tune is currently debuting this season on radio stations in multiple countries, and is also under consideration for film and TV projects.
Music and Words by Jeff Burger
Snow falls outside our window
Friends are all waiting, we really should go
It’s that time of year to spread good cheer
But the best rendezvous is only with you
Why don’t we skip the parties
Let’s linger here, just you and me
There’s no better way to celebrate
We can conspire on one desire
Together at home, alone by the fire
Christmas time
With candles and wine
Making mem'ries just for two
At Christmas time
One thing on my mind
I want to spend Christmas with you
Stay with me through the twilight
'Cause these shorter days make longer nights
In the afterglow of the mistletoe
Spend this Noel under love's spell
Gifts wait by the Yule tree
But, darlin’, you are all that I need
Because you define the best of times
So let's steal away this holiday
Nestled up close in our own hideaway
Christmas time
With candles and wine
Making mem'ries just for two
At Christmas time
One thing on my mind
I want to spend Christmas with you
Firelight shimmering
Tree lights glimmering
But the best part of these nights
Are all the candles on the mantle
Sparkling in your eyes
(At) Christmas time
With candles and wine
Making mem'ries just for two
At Christmas time
One thing on my mind
I want to spend Christmas with you
I want to spend Christmas with you
I want to spend my Christmas with you
Copyright © 2017 Jeffrey Paul Burger
"This is super cool. It swings. I like the crooner, the lyrics and the production. You hit the hat trick!"— Dave Harding, Hollywood film/TV producer
"Love it! It sounds like a familiar holiday standard I just hadn't heard yet." — Renee C., vocalist
"It reminded me of that warm feeling I get with A Charlie Brown Christmas" — Isolde P., composer
"I Want To Spend Christmas With You is a well crafted, well performed standard-style Christmas song. The vocalist does a great job delivering it and the overall vibe works tremendously effectively. You nailed this, Jeff, which is why it's going to get the opportunity to be heard for this pitch." —Taxi
"The songwriting is really good, and the vocal is great." — B.B, radio producer
"It is amazing to me how you can produce music of the highest quality in completely different genres." — Emil Hadji Panzov, founder/CEO, Filter Label
Major Artist Debut Cover Opportunity. My production serves to inspire other artists and producers to do their own interpretations. As of this writing, there's a rare opportunity for an A-list artist to be the first to debut the definitive, signature version into the annual holiday soundscape. (The lyrics are gender neutral, so it can be a male or female vocalist... or a duet.) Downloads including instrumental backing tracks and chart available on request.
Sync Licensing Available. This broadcast-quality master recording is also available for licensing in film, TV, commercials, etc.. I own the copyright, publishing and master. Alt versions are avail with a 4-bar intro and/or instrumental backing tracks.
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