Christmas (Don McLean album)

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Christmas
Don McLean - Christmas Coverart.png
Studio album by
Released1991
Genre Rock
Length33:45
Label Curb
Producer Dave Burgess
Don McLean chronology
Headroom
(1990)
Christmas
(1991)
The River of Love
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Christmas is a 1991 album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean. [2] The album was released on the Curb Records label. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith)
  2. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillips Brooks, Lewis H. Redner)
  3. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)
  4. "I'll Be Home for Christmas/Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Hugh Martin, Buck Ram)
  5. "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (Traditional, John Wesley Work II)
  6. "Burgundian Carol" (Oscar Brand)
  7. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin)
  8. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Traditional)
  9. "Pretty Paper" (Willie Nelson)
  10. "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. 1 2 Guglielmi, Federico (2002). Grande enciclopedia rock: [1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000]. Filippo Giunti. p. 528. ISBN   88-09-02852-X . Retrieved December 4, 2008.