Christmas (Stephanie Mills album)

Christmas
Studio album by Stephanie Mills
Released	October 29, 1991
Recorded	Skip Saylor Recording and Conway Studios (Hollywood, CA); Entourage Studios (North Hollywood, CA); The Enterprise Studio and Encore Studios (Burbank, CA); Tarpan Studios (San Rafael, CA); Jay-Howard Studios and Reflections Studios (Charlotte, NC); The Bennett House (Franklin, TN); Quad Studios (Nashville, TN).
Genre	Christmas R&B soul
Length	44:41
Label	MCA
Producer	Narada Michael Walden BeBe Winans Steve Barri Tony Peluso Donald Lawrence Rodney Barber Stephanie Mills (exec.)
Stephanie Mills chronology
Home (1989) Christmas (1991) Something Real (1992)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Christmas is a studio album by American recording artist Stephanie Mills, released in October 1991 on MCA Records. ^[2] The album is a Christmas album, the first by Mills that showcases her soulful renditions of classic Christmas carols such as "White Christmas", "Silent Night", "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer", and soul singer Donny Hathaway's, "This Christmas".

Track listing

1. "This Christmas" (Donny Hathaway, Nadine McKinnor) - 4:53
2. "It Doesn't Feel Like Christmas (Without You)" (Michael Price, Richard Scher) - 4:14
3. "We Can Move Mountains" (Randy Kerber, Marybeth Derry) - 4:21
4. "Merry Christmas" (Stephanie Mills, Narada Michael Walden) - 4:02
5. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) - 4:36
6. "Silent Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr) - 5:18
7. "Christmas with You" (Terry Lupton, Brian Potter) - 4:59
8. "Love Is to Listen" (BeBe Winans) - 4:24
9. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 4:10
10. "Jingle Baby" (Amanda McBroom, Tom Snow) - 4:09

Notes

• Track 5 contains sample from "Sex Machine" by James Brown and excerpts from "Expression" written by C. James. ^[3]

Personnel

• Stephanie Mills – vocals
• Donald Lawrence – keyboards (1, 5), bass (1, 5), arrangements (1, 5, 9), vocal arrangements (3, 7)
• Kevin Bond – acoustic piano solo (1), acoustic piano (2), keyboards (2)
• Richard Scher – synthesizers (2), drum programming (2), arrangements (2)
• Steve Barri – additional keyboards (2, 7, 10)
• Tony Peluso – additional keyboards (2, 7, 10), arrangements (10)
• Randy Kerber – keyboards (3, 10), arrangements (3), additional keyboards (7)
• Louis Biancaniello – keyboards (4), programming (4), orchestral arrangements (4)
• Frank Martin – acoustic piano (4)
• John Andrew Schreiner – synthesizers (7), drum programming (7), arrangements (7)
• Cedric Caldwell – keyboards (8), arrangements (8)
• Robbie Buchanan – acoustic piano solo (8)
• Dean Parks – guitars (3, 7, 10), arrangements (10)
• Tom Hemby – guitars (8)
• Neil Stubenhaus – bass (3, 10)
• Joel Smith – bass (6)
• Victor Caldwell – bass (8), drum programming (8)
• John Robinson – drums (3, 10)
• Rodney Barber – drum programming (5), first rap (5)
• Clarence "Flip" Kirby – drums (6)
• Dave Koz – alto saxophone (2), soprano saxophone (6)
• Paul McCandless – oboe (4)
• Joel Peskin – saxophone (10)
• Paul Riser – string arrangements (1, 6)
• Sephra Herman – string contractor (1, 6)
• Narada Michael Walden – arrangements (4)
• Elbernita Clark Terrell – arrangements (6)
• The Company – backing vocals (1-3, 5-7, 9): Reginald Adams, Winston Bagley, Rodney Barber, Jerry Friday, Donald Lawrence, Richard Odom and Terry Phillips
• Kitty Beethoven, Nikita Germaine, Sandy Griffith, Skyler Jett and Claytoven Richardson – backing vocals (4)
• Terry Phillips – second rap (5)
• Margaret Bell, Sherrie Kibble, Angie Winans, Debra Winans, BeBe Winans and CeCe Winans – backing vocals (8)
• BeBe Winans – BGV arrangements (8)
• The Jinglettes – backing vocals (10): Liz Constantine, Bobbi Page and Terry Wood

Production

• Stephanie Mills – executive producer, producer (1-3, 5-7, 10)
• Donald Lawrence – producer (1-3, 5-7, 9)
• Steve Barri – producer (2, 3, 7, 10)
• Tony Peluso – producer (2, 3, 7, 10), recording (2, 3, 7, 10), mixing (2, 3, 7, 10)
• Richard Scher – co-producer (2)
• Narada Michael Walden – producer (4)
• Louis Biancaniello – associate producer (4)
• Rodney Barber – producer (5)
• David Floyd – recording (1, 5)
• Taavi Môte – recording (1, 5, 6, 9), mixing (1, 5)
• David Frazer – recording (4), mixing (4)
• Keith Blake – recording (7)
• Michael McCartney – recording (8)
• Elliott Peters – recording (8)
• Billy Whittington – recording (8)
• Mark Williams – recording (9)
• Mick Guzauski – mixing (6, 9)
• Ronnie Brookshire – mixing (8)
• G. Aaron Miller – recording assistant (1, 5, 7, 9)
• Fred Kelly – recording assistant (7, 10)
• Brett Perry – assistant engineer (8)
• Roy Snowdon – assistant engineer (8)
• Carry Summers – assistant engineer (8)
• Tracey Schroeder – recording assistant (9)
• Marc Reyburn – additional recording (4)
• Steve Hall – mastering at Future Disc (Hollywood, California)
• Left Bank Management – project coordinator
• Mark Sullivan – production coordinator (1-3, 5-7, 9, 10)
• Janice Lee, Kelly McRae, Cynthia Shiloh and Kevin Walden – production coordination (4)
• Louis Upkins Jr. – production assistant (8)
• Larry Brooks at Kosh Brooks Design – art direction, design
• Todd Gray – photography

References

1. Wynn, Ron. Christmas review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
2. Stephanie Mills Album discography.Allmusic
3. Stephanie Mills - Christmas (CD, Album) at Discogs

External links

• Stephanie Mills-Christmas - amazon.com