Aled Jones and Russell Watson discovered it “fairly simple” to decide on songs for his or her festive album.
The pair have joined forces on ‘Christmas with Aled and Russell’ and had enjoyable deciding on trendy festive songs to go alongside conventional carols on the file.
Aled mentioned: “It was fairly simple really. He does a listing, I do record, the file firm would possibly provide you with just a few, invariably there’s tracks on each our lists which might be the identical.
“On this one we tried to combine issues up slightly bit, so not simply Christmas carols, however Christmas songs, pop songs like ‘A Spaceman Got here Travelling’, and ‘It’s Starting To Look A Lot Like Christmas’, together with the stuff you’d count on us to do.”
Aled shot to fame when he was simply 14 years outdated due to his cowl model of ‘The Snowman’ theme ‘Strolling within the Air’ and he admitted it has been “particular” to sing the tune together with his pal as a result of Russell has at all times made jokes about his affiliation with the festive favorite.
He mentioned: “I’d by no means sung it with anybody else earlier than however I made a decision to do it with Russ as a result of final 5 Christmases wherever he’s he retains sending me photographs of himself with varied sizes snowmen in malls and he thinks that I chortle uncontrollably, bless him.
“It’s a particular second for me to sing it with him. It’s his first Christmas album, I’ve performed a great deal of Christmas albums through the years. With the ability to do that tune with him is nice.”
Whereas Aled admitted he used to get “embarrassed” by the tune, he’s now very happy with it.
Requested if he’s uninterested in his affiliation with the tune and movie, he mentioned: “By no means.
“Look, I’d be mendacity if I didn’t say that once I was at school I might get embarrassed by it. However now I’m at an age the place I look again on it fondly. Goodness me, it opened so many doorways for me.”
