Olivia Newton-John & Vince Gill "'Tis The Season (USA, Hallmark, 695XPR2019)"

'Tis The Season is a Christmas album, by Olivia Newton-John with Vince Gill, released in 2000.

Tracklist:

Vince Gill & Olivia Newton-John - (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays   4:07

Vince Gill – Sleigh Ride 3:14

Olivia Newton-John – Silver Bells 2:49

The Bradford Singers – Deck The Hall 1:53

Vince Gill – The First Noel 4:28

Olivia Newton-John – Ave Maria 6:30

Vince Gill – It Came Upon A Midnight Clear 3:13

Vince Gill & Olivia Newton-John – Away In A Manger 4:09

The Bradford Singers – O Little Town Of Bethlehem 3:27

Olivia Newton-John – What Child Is This? 2:54

Vince Gill – Silent Night 4:41

Olivia Newton-John - O Holy Night 4:51

Sixteenth edition of Hallmark's Christmas music series

Recording information:

Produced For – Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Copyright – Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Phonographic Copyright – Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Pressed By – Allied DT

Executive-Producer – Dick Carter 

Featuring – The London Symphony Orchestra

Music Director – Fred Salem

Producer – Carter Co's Inc.

This album produced exclusively for Hallmark Cards, Inc.

© ℗ 2000 Hallmark Cards, Inc. Printed and Mfd. in U.S.A.

Chicago "Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album"

Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album is the nineteenth studio album by the American band Chicago, their twenty-fifth album overall, released in 1998 on the band's Chicago Records label. It is an album of Christmas songs. The album was re-issued by Rhino Records in 2003 as What's It Gonna Be, Santa? with six additional, newly recorded tracks.

Produced by Roy Bittan, the original album – featuring Chicago's interpretations of well-known Christmas classics plus one original tune (co-penned by Lee Loughnane) – was very well received upon its release in August 1998, peaking at #47 in the US and going gold during a stay of 7 weeks on the charts. After Chicago entered into a long-term partnership with Rhino Records in 2002, that label re-issued Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album that same year. It was further decided to record six additional Christmas songs – with Hot Streets and Chicago 13 producer Phil Ramone – and re-issue the whole package in 2003 under a new design, title and sequencing, entitled What's It Gonna Be, Santa?, deleting its predecessor in the process. It has been reported that the band had initially considered recording an entirely new holiday effort, but didn't due to cost factors. Guitarist Keith Howland sang his first lead vocal on the track, "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas". This later release reached #102 in the US during a stay of 5 weeks on the charts.

Track listings

Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album

1. "Little Drummer Boy" Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone Vocals:Champlin/Scheff 4:05
2. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" Traditional Vocals:Scheff 3:23
3. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane Vocals:Champlin and Scheff 4:02
4. "The Christmas Song" Mel Tormé, Robert Wells Vocals:Robert Lamm 3:39
5. "O Come All Ye Faithful" Traditional Vocals:Scheff 4:46
6. "Child's Prayer" Lee Loughnane, John Durrill Vocals:Children's choir, with Scheff 3:24
7. "Feliz Navidad" José Feliciano Vocals:Lamm 4:17
8. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie Vocals:Champlin/Scheff 3:56
9. "Christmas Time Is Here" Lee Mendelson, Vince Guaraldi Vocals:Lamm 3:49
10. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne Vocals:Loughnane 3:29
11. "What Child Is This?" Traditional, William Chatterton Dix Vocals:Scheff/Champlin 4:41
12. "White Christmas" Irving Berlin Vocals:Lamm 2:28
13. "Silent Night" Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr Vocals:Scheff 3:18
14. "One Little Candle" George Mysels, J. Maloy Roach Vocals:Children's choir 1:26

What's It Gonna Be, Santa?

1. "Winter Wonderland" Felix Bernard, Dick Smith Lamm 4:19
2. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" Cahn, Styne Loughnane 3:29
3. "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas" Benjamin Hanby Keith Howland 3:35
4. "The Little Drummer Boy" Davis, Onorati, Simeone Champlin and Scheff 3:29
5. "This Christmas" Donny Hathaway, Nadine McKinnor Scheff 4:03
6. "Feliz Navidad" Feliciano Lamm 4:17
7. "Bethlehem" Bill Champlin, Tamara Champlin Loughnane, Scheff, with Champlin 4:07
8. "The Christmas Song" Tormé, Wells Lamm 3:39
9. "O Come All Ye Faithful" Traditional Scheff 4:46
10. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" Johnny Marks Champlin 3:44
11. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" Martin, Blane Champlin 4:02
12. "Sleigh Ride" Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish Loughnane with Scheff 3:55
13. "Silent Night" Gruber, Mohr Scheff 3:18
14. "What Child Is This?" Traditional, Chatterton Dix Champlin 4:41
15. "Christmas Time Is Here" Mendelson, Guaraldi Lamm 3:49
16. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" Traditional Scheff 3:23
17. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" Coots, Gillespie Champlin 3:56
18. "Child's Prayer" Loughnane, Durrill Children's choir, with Scheff 3:24
19. "One Little Candle" Mysels, Roach Children's choir 1:26
20. "White Christmas" Berlin Lamm 2:28

Chicago XXV

Produced by Roy Bittan

Engineered and Mixed by Ed Thacker

Assisted by Posie Muliadi and Eric Ferguson

Recorded at A&M Studios (Hollywood, CA); Rumbo Recorders (Canoga Park, CA); Gold Mine Studio (Woodland Hills, CA).

Mixed at A&M Studios

Production Coordinator – Valerie Pack

Art Direction and Design – John Kosh

"What's It Gonna Be, Santa?"

Produced by Phil Ramone

Engineered and Mixed by Ed Thacker at Glenwood Place Recording Studios (Burbank, CA).

Additional Production – Chicago and David McLees

Sound Supervision – Lee Loughnane and Jeff Magid

Remastered by David Donnelly at DNA Mastering (Studio City, CA).

Product Manager – Mike Engstrom

Discographical Annotation – Gary Peterson

Editorial Supervision – Cory Fry

Project Assistants – Jimmy Edwards and Tim Scanlin

Art Direction – Hugh Brown and Linda Cobb

Front Cover Photo – Corbis Images

Additional Photography – Getty Images

Aretha Franklin "This Christmas, Aretha"

This Christmas is the first Christmas album and thirty-sixth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was originally released on October 14, 2008, as a Borders Bookstore exclusive. The album was reissued in 2009 on DMI Records.

Having failed to launch her own Detroit-based label, Aretha’s Records, she chose to release this album on DMI Records. The album peaked at #102 on the Billboard album chart. As of January 2013, it had reportedly sold 142,864 copies in the United States.

Track listing
Information based on the album’s Liner Notes

1. "Angels We Have Heard on High" (James Chadwick) – 5:26
2. "This Christmas (with Edward Franklin)" (Donny Hathaway & Nadine McKinnor) – 5:23
3. "My Grown-Up Christmas List" (David Foster & Linda Thompson-Jenner) – 5:15
4. "The Lord Will Make A Way" (Traditional, Arranged by Aretha Franklin) – 5:43
5. "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber & Josef Mohr) – 5:06
6. "Ave Maria" (Charles Gounod & Johann Sebastian Bach) – 4:57
7. "Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without The One You Love)" (Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff) – 3:53
8. "14 Angels" (Engelbert Humperdinck, Arranged by Aretha Franklin) – 2:08
9. "One Night With The King" (Jeannie Tenney) – 6:09
10. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Charles Wesley & Felix Mendelssohn) – 5:24
11. "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" (Clement C. Moore; Adaptation by Aretha Franklin) – 1:52

Amy Grant "A Christmas Album"

A Christmas Album is the seventh album and first Christmas album by Christian music singer Amy Grant. The album was recorded in nine studios in mid-1983 and was released later that same year.

It was issued on the heels of Grant's immensely successful 1982 LP Age to Age. Primarily for the audiences she attracted with Age to Age, A Christmas Album features well-known sacred and secular standards alongside original songs, and tracks from this album continue to receive airplay to this day during the holiday season on both secular and Christian radio stations. Although not as successful as Age to Age, A Christmas Album still peaked in the Top Ten of the Christian chart and spawned a Top 20 Christian radio single in "Emmanuel." The album would eventually be certified gold in 1985, and platinum in 1989. A Christmas Album was listed at No. 40 in the 2001 book, CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music. In 2016, Grant re-recorded the song "Tennessee Christmas" as the title track of a new Christmas album. The song was released as a single from the album and charted at No. 50 on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart in December, 2016.

A Christmas Album was the first Amy Grant album to be released in the Compact Disc format. The original CD issue had a manufacturing flaw that caused a small, but noticeable jump during the transition between tracks 3 and 4. The remastered version does not have this defect. The album was also released as a promotional only vinyl picture disc version in a die cut sleeve.

Track listing

1. "Tennessee Christmas" Amy Grant, Gary Chapman 4:33
2. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" William H. Cummings, Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley 2:53
3. "Preiset Dem Konig! (Praise the King!)" Shane Keister 1:39
4. "Emmanuel" Michael W. Smith 2:54
5. "Little Town (new melody to O Little Town of Bethlehem)" Phillips Brooks (words), Chris Eaton (music) 2:47
6. "Christmas Hymn" Grant, Smith 2:32
7. "Love Has Come" Grant, Keister, Smith 4:02
8. "Sleigh Ride" Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish 3:35
9. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire)" Mel Tormé, Robert Wells 3:45
10. "Heirlooms" Grant, Bannister, Bob Farrell 3:42
11. "A Mighty Fortress/Angels We Have Heard On High" Traditional 5:00

Production

Jim Baird – additional engineer

Brown Bannister – producer

Michael Blanton – cover art concept, executive producer

Mike Borum – family photography

Kevin Burns – assistant engineer

Gary Chapman – executive producer

Ken Corlew – additional engineer

Gene Eichelberger – additional engineer

Bill Farrell – cover photography, scenery

Steve Ford – assistant engineer

Daniel Garcia – assistant engineer

Amy Grant – liner notes

Dan Harrell – cover art concept, executive producer

Dennis Hill – art direction

Brent King – additional engineer

Jerry Mahler – assistant engineer

Rich Markowitz – assistant engineer

Jack Joseph Puig – engineer, mixing

Mike Ross – additional engineer

Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab, Hollywood, California

David Schober – assistant engineer