Christmas Time's A-Comin' (album)

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Christmas Time's A-Comin'
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Studio album by
Sammy Kershaw
ReleasedOctober 4, 1994
Genre Christmas, country
Length33:21
Label Mercury Nashville
Producer Buddy Cannon, Norro Wilson
Sammy Kershaw chronology
Feelin' Good Train
(1994)
Christmas Time's A-Comin'
(1994)
The Hits Chapter 1
(1995)
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Christmas Time's A-Comin' is an album of Christmas music released in late 1994 by American country music singer Sammy Kershaw. His first seasonal project, it comprises a mix of traditional songs and newly recorded material. The title track, a bluegrass holiday standard written by Benjamin "Tex" Logan, charted in 1995 and 1998 on the Billboard country charts, respectively reaching #50 and #53 in those years.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "We Three Kings (Part 1)" (John Henry Hopkins) – 0:53
  2. "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" (Tex Logan) – 3:17
  3. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 4:23
  4. "Please Come Home for Christmas" (Charles Brown, Gene Redd) – 2:50
  5. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) – 2:35
  6. "Frosty the Snowman" (Walter Rollins, Steve Nelson) – 2:47
  7. "Daddy Stuff" (Rock Killough) – 3:59
  8. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) – 2:01
  9. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (Troy Powers, Andy Stone) – 3:37
  10. "Christmas Won't Be Christmas (Without You Here)" (Steven D. Cohen, Rick Lagneaux) – 3:36
  11. "Up on the House Top" (Benjamin Hanby) - 2:26
    • duet with daughter Erin [2]
  12. "We Three Kings (Part 2)" (Hopkins) – 0:57

Personnel

From liner notes. [2]

Musicians
Backing vocalists
Technical

Chart performance

Chart (1994)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums52

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. 1 2 Christmas Time's A-Comin' (CD insert). Sammy Kershaw. Mercury Records. 1994. 22638.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)