A Wright Christmas

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A Wright Christmas
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 25, 2005
Recorded2005
Genre Country
Length40:54
Label Icon Records
Producer Russ Zavitson
Tony Haselden
Michelle Wright chronology
Shut Up and Kiss Me
(2002)
A Wright Christmas
(2005)
Everything and More
(2006)

A Wright Christmas is the first Christmas album by the Canadian country music singer-songwriter Michelle Wright. It was released on October 25, 2005, on Icon Records. [1]

Track listing

  1. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 4:21
  2. Jingle Bell Rock (Joe Beal, Jim Boothe) – 2:10
  3. Joy to the World (George Handel, Isaac Watts) – 4:08
  4. I Know Santa's Been Here (Patricia Conroy) – 2:00
  5. Little Drummer Boy (Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) – 3:35
  6. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Johnny Marks) – 3:22
  7. The Christmas Song (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 3:42
  8. Silent Night (Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr) – 4:12
  9. Go Tell It on the Mountain (Traditional) – 2:52
  10. Winter Wonderland (Felix Bernard, Richard Smith) – 3:38
  11. O Come All Ye Faithful (Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade) – 3:24
  12. White Christmas (Irving Berlin) – 3:22

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