Virgin's The Best Christmas Ever (1996) is very similar to an earlier album, Even Santa Gets The Blues (1995) on Point Blank Records which mixed new recordings from the Point Blank roster (Hadda Brooks, Johnny Winter, Isaac Hayes) with rhythm 'n' blues classics from B.B. King, Lowell Fulson, and Charles Brown. Dropping most of the new stuff and beefing up the running time, Best Christmas Ever has a lower blues quotient but a higher overall quality rating. Though it's a musical potpourri - mixing easy listening with rhythm and blues, old and classic with new and mediocre - it collects a few songs rarely seen on Christmas anthologies, including King's "Christmas Celebration" and Jesse Belvins' "I Want You With Me For Christmas." Necessary for record collectors, perhaps, but not recommended for normal people with normal lives.