A Very Special Christmas Live

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A Very Special Christmas Live
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Cover art by Keith Haring
Live album by
Various artists
ReleasedOctober 19, 1999
Recorded Washington, D.C., December 1998
Genre Christmas music
Length38:19
Label A&M/Interscope Records
Various artists chronology
A Very Special Christmas 3
(1997)
A Very Special Christmas Live
(1999)
A Very Special Christmas 5
(2001)
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A Very Special Christmas Live is the fourth in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas music-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was recorded live in Washington, D.C. in December 1998 at a benefit party held by then-President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Special Olympics. It was released on 19 October 1999, and production was overseen by Bobby Shriver for A&M Records. It peaked at #100 on December 1999 Billboard album chart.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Performed byLength
1."Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" Johnny Marks Mary J. Blige and Sheryl Crow 2:29
2."Christmas in Hollis" Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, Jason Mizell Run-D.M.C. 2:59
3."Please Come Home for Christmas" Charles Brown Jon Bon Jovi 3:13
4."Christmas Blues"Roberto Hite, Adolpho de la Parra, Alan Wilson, Samuel Taylor, Henry Vestine John Popper, Eric Clapton 3:42
5."What Child Is This?"Traditional Vanessa Williams 3:15
6."Christmas Tears"Robert Charles Wilson, Sonny Thompson Clapton2:39
7."O Holy Night" Adolphe-Charles Adam, John Sullivan Dwight Tracy Chapman 3:26
8."Give Me One Reason"Tracy ChapmanChapman, Clapton4:17
9."Merry Christmas Baby"Lou Baxter, Johnny Moore Crow, Clapton3:59
10."Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Phil Spector Bon Jovi2:53
11."Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie Blige, Bon Jovi, Chapman, Clapton, Crow, Popper, Run-D.M.C., Williams3:55

Personnel


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