Count Your Blessings (compilation album)

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Count Your Blessings
Live album by Jane Siberry, Holly Cole, Rebecca Jenkins, Mary Margaret O'Hara and Victoria Williams
Recorded 1993
Genre Christmas music
Label CBC Records

Count Your Blessings is a 1994 Christmas album, taking its title from the song of the same name included as its first track, presenting a concert recorded by Jane Siberry, Holly Cole, Rebecca Jenkins, Mary Margaret O'Hara and Victoria Williams. [1] The concert was broadcast on CBC Radio in Canada, and National Public Radio in the United States, in 1993. [2]

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The concert presented a program of traditional Christmas music, both well-known standards and lesser-known songs. [3] It also included three original Christmas-themed songs written by the artists themselves: O'Hara's "Never, No", Siberry's "Are You Burning, Little Candle?" and Williams' "A Holy Thing". [3]

Track listing

  1. "Count Your Blessings" (3:19) - performed by Cole, Jenkins, Siberry
  2. "Please Come Home for Christmas" (2:35) - performed by Cole
  3. "White Christmas" (2:46) - performed by O'Hara
  4. "Un Flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle" (3:38) - performed by Cole, Jenkins, Siberry
  5. "What Is This Fragrance?" (2:15) - performed by O'Hara
  6. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (3:12) - performed by Williams
  7. "Carol of the Bells" (3:07) - performed by Cole, Jenkins, Siberry
  8. "Never, No" (2:05) - performed by O'Hara
  9. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (3:07) - performed by Jenkins
  10. "Are You Burning, Little Candle?" (2:43) - performed by Siberry
  11. "Deck the Halls" (2:41) - performed by Cole
  12. "A Holy Thing" (3:37) - performed by Williams
  13. "In the Bleak Midwinter" (4:27) - performed by Siberry
  14. "Silent Night" (5:25)

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References

  1. ↑ "Spirit, sincerity and passion : Holly Cole and friends remind you to Count Your Blessings". The Record , December 8, 1994.
  2. ↑ "CBC opens doors for Christmas". Toronto Star , December 12, 1993.
  3. 1 2 "Spend Christmas under the stars". Ottawa Citizen , December 17, 1994.


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