Accordingly, he lends his smooth-as-silk voice and tasteful phrasing to evergreens (no pun intended) such as 'Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow' and Mel Torme's immortal 'Christmas Song,' atop a mixture of string orchestrations and lightly jazzy backing.
Connick (who hadn't exactly thrown in the towel himself at that point, releasing his own Christmas album a month-and-a-half earlier) Buble aims to extend the classic Frank Sinatra-style approach to pop music well beyond the life-spans of its first-generation exponents.