Christmas | ||||
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Studio album by Sons of the San Joaquin | ||||
Released | 1998 | |||
Genre | Western, Christmas | |||
Label | Independent | |||
Producer | Jeff Hall, Lon Hannah | |||
Sons of the San Joaquin chronology | ||||
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Christmas is the seventh album released by the Sons of the San Joaquin. It marks the first independently produced and released Sons recording since 1991's Bound for the Rio Grande . The songs are all Christmas standards. There would not be an original Sons-related Christmas recording until member Lon Hannah's solo album featured a lone Christmas song called "Cowboy Christmas," which was a reworking by Sons associate Bill Thornbury of Percy Faith and Spencer Maxwell's "Christmas Is."
The Sons of the San Joaquin is a Western family band. Jack and Joe Hannah are brothers, while third member Lon Hannah is Joe's son. They began performing together in 1987 at a birthday party for Lon's grandfather. They have been credited with "rich durability of the traditional Western music they present, as well as the outstanding original cowboy songs" and being reminiscent of the Sons of the Pioneers. Roy Rogers called them "the only singing group alive who I feel sound like the original Sons of the Pioneers." They have over a dozen albums, including a gospel album and a greatest hits album.
Bound For the Rio Grande is the second Sons of the San Joaquin album. It was independently produced and distributed and contains songs written by or notably recorded by the Sons of the Pioneers.
Percy Faith was a Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the "easy listening" or "mood music" format. Faith became a staple of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Though his professional orchestra-leading career began at the height of the swing era, Faith refined and rethought orchestration techniques, including use of large string sections, to soften and fill out the brass-dominated popular music of the 1940s.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Away in a Manger" (Martin Luther, Carl Nuelle) | 2:23 |
2. | "Deck the Halls" (Traditional) | 2:17 |
3. | "Silent Night" (Joseph Mohr, Franz Gruber) | 3:09 |
4. | "Do You Hear What I Hear?" (Noel Regney, Gloria Shayne) | 3:20 |
5. | "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (Edmund H. Shears, Richard S. Will) | 3:43 |
6. | "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (Henry W. Longfellow, J. Baptiste Calkin) | 2:29 |
7. | "Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Davis, Henry Ondrati, Harry Simeone) | 4:05 |
8. | "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillip Brooks, Lewis H. Redner) | 3:23 |
9. | "I'll Be Home For Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent) | 3:44 |
10. | "O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam) | 5:24 |
11. | "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) | 3:11 |
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