Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (soundtrack)

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Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
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Soundtrack album by
ReleasedMarch 21, 2011 (United Kingdom) [1]
November 22, 2011 (United States) [2]
Recorded2010
Genre Soundtrack
Length49:20
Label Silva Screen Records
Producer Murray Gold
Doctor Who soundtrack chronology
Doctor Who: Series 5
(2010)
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
(2011)
Doctor Who: Series 6
(2011)

The soundtrack for the Doctor Who episode "A Christmas Carol" was released in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2011 and digitally in the United States on 22 November 2011. The soundtrack features classical music star Katherine Jenkins singing "Abigail's Song". It was reissued on white vinyl LP in a limited first pressing edition of 500 on 1 December 2014 [3]

Track listing

The soundtrack was distributed by Silva Screen. [4]

All tracks are written by Murray Gold.

No.TitleLength
1."Come Along Pond"1:51
2."Halfway Out of the Dark"1:38
3."Pray for a Miracle"0:37
4."Geoff"3:48
5."You Didn't Hit the Boy"1:44
6."Fish"0:50
7."Kazran Sardick 12 1/2"1:29
8."Ghost of Christmas Past"1:33
9."Babysitter"0:47
10."Talk About Girls"1:41
11."Sonic Fishing"1:43
12."Just a Little One"1:16
13."Big Colour"1:50
14."I Can't Save Her"3:34
15."The Other Half's Inside the Shark"1:07
16."Abigail"1:47
17."He Comes Every Christmas"1:09
18."Shark Ride"1:24
19."New Memories"1:00
20."Holding Hands"1:45
21."Christmas Dinner"0:38
22."Goodlucknight"1:51
23."Goodnight Abigail"2:10
24."This Planet Is Ours"2:00
25."Ghost of Christmas Present"0:48
26."The Course of my Life"1:35
27."Ghost of Christmas Future"1:50
28."Abigail's Song (Silence Is All You Know)" (Sung by Katherine Jenkins)4:41
29."Everything Has to End Some Time" 

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