Charles “Shorty Corleone” Garris: A Christmas Story

From IAMOnlineMag.com Shorty Corleone may have thought he put his Mafioso personality aside when he took on his birth moniker for Charles Garris Presents: It’s Christmas, but this album is less like Bing Crosby and more like what the soundtrack would be if “Belly” were a Nativity movie. In his version, the story about Frosty uses The Delfonics’s “Hey! Love” sample that our generation may most famously remember as the foundation of Notorious B.I.G.’s “Playa Hater;” the story of Rudolph has a reggae beat; and every other track has a go-go swang. Garris became a professional vocalist at age 14 … Continue reading Charles “Shorty Corleone” Garris: A Christmas Story