Christmas Card (The Statler Brothers album)

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Christmas Card
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Studio album by The Statler Brothers
Released 1978 (1978)
Genre Country, Christmas
Length37:11
Label Mercury
Producer Jerry Kennedy
The Statler Brothers chronology
Entertainers...On and Off the Record
(1978)
Christmas Card
(1978)
The Originals
(1979)
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Christmas Card is the nineteenth studio album and the first Christmas album by American country music group The Statler Brothers. It was released in 1978 via Mercury Records. The group's first Christmas album, it peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. [2]

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues.

The Statler Brothers were an American country music, gospel, and vocal group. The quartet was formed in 1955 performing locally and, in 1964, they began singing backup for Johnny Cash.

Mercury Records record label

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. In the United States, it operates through Island Records; in the UK, it is distributed by Virgin EMI Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I Believe in Santa's Cause" (Lew DeWitt, Buddy Church) – 2:50
  2. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Walter Kent, Kim Gannon, Buck Ram) – 3:47
  3. "Jingle Bells" (Traditional, arr. by Phil Balsley, Lew DeWitt, Don Reid, Harold Reid) – 2:54
  4. "I Never Spend a Christmas That I Don't Think of You" (D. Reid) – 2:35
  5. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 2:19
  6. "Christmas to Me" (D. Reid, H. Reid) – 4:08
  7. "Who Do You Think?" (D. Reid, H. Reid) – 2:52
  8. "Away in a Manger" (Traditional, arr. by Balsley, DeWitt, D. Reid, H. Reid) – 2:45
  9. "Something You Can't Buy" (D. Reid, H. Reid) – 3:17
  10. "The Carols Those Kids Used to Sing" (H. Reid, D. Reid) – 2:41
  11. "Medley: Silent Night/O Holy Night/The First Noel/It Came Upon the Midnight Clear/Silent Night" (Traditional, arr. by Balsley, DeWitt, D. Reid, H. Reid) – 7:03

Chart performance

Chart (1978) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 17
U.S. Billboard 200 183

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References

  1. "Christmas Card review". Allmusic . Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  2. "Christmas Card Charts". Allmusic . Retrieved 15 May 2016.