When My Heart Finds Christmas, Harry Connick Jr. One of two Christmas albums that Connick Jr. has recorded, but by far the best, When My Heart Finds Christmas was released in 1993. It succeeds both as an album in the Connick Jr. style, and as one that pays homage to the iconic pop holiday albums that came before it.Over the course of 14 songs, Connick Jr. manages to succeed on several levels: swinging in the style of Billy May-produced Sinatra (Sleigh Ride, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), Andy Williams-style crooning (Christmas Dreaming, which even sounds like it might have been backed by the Percy Faith singers), and hip jazzster (I Pray On Christmas, What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?). The Connick Jr. originals are among the strongest songs on the album, and with It Must've Been Ol' Santa Claus, Harry contributed a song to the holiday pantheon that will still be listened to, and enjoyed, for decades to come.
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