Billy "Crash" Craddock's Christmas Favorites

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Billy "Crash" Craddock's Christmas Favorites
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Released2006
Recorded2006
Genre Country
Label Cee Cee
Billy "Crash" Craddock chronology
Crash's Smashes
(1996)
Billy "Crash" Craddock's Christmas Favorites
(2006)
Live -N- Kickin'
(2009)

Billy "Crash" Craddock's Christmas Favorites is a Christmas album recorded by Billy "Crash" Craddock. It was released in 2006 on the Cee Cee label. [1]

Track listing

  1. "An Old Christmas Card"
  2. "Pretty Paper"
  3. "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy"
  4. "Let It Snow"
  5. "Silver Bells"
  6. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
  7. "Blue Christmas"
  8. "Away in a Manger"
  9. "Winter Wonderland"
  10. "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem"

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References

  1. "Billy Crash Craddock". rocky-52.net. Retrieved 2024-11-03.