It's Christmastime Again, Gerald Walker

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It's Christmastime Again, Gerald Walker
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Studio album (holiday album)by
ReleasedNovember 17, 2011 (2011-11-17)
Recorded2011-2011
The Delivery Room Studios
(Fox Point, Wisconsin)
Genre R&B, Hip hop, holiday, Urban Holiday
Label One Step at a Time Music
Producer (Executive Producers.) Gerald Walker, Ronald LaTour, Edward Murray, Matt Axelson, Mohammad Shah. (Associate Executive) Ebony Haynes. (Musical Producers) Chemist, RMB Justize and Slot-A
Gerald Walker chronology
The Other Half of Letting Go
(2011)
It's Christmastime Again, Gerald Walker
(2011)
Believers Never Die
(2011)

It's Christmastime Again, Gerald Walker is the second Christmas album and third studio album by American recording artist Gerald Walker. It is the first album released as Gerald Walker & The Family and was released in the United States on November 17, 2011 by One Step at a Time Music.

Contents

Background

Originally announced as a re-release of Walker's 2010 A Gerald Walker Christmas EP , the idea was later abandoned and seven new original songs we're then recorded. This is Gerald Walker's second Christmas-themed album mirrored after the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. It's Christmastime Again, Gerald Walker and his inaugural A Gerald Walker Christmas EP were named after A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown respectively. This also served as Gerald Walker's third release in 2011. [1]

Singles

The album's first single "Christmas Everyday", produced by longtime collaborator Chemist, was also written and co-produced by Walker himself. It contained an interpolation of Fred Hammond & Radical For Christ's song of the same name and was released November 10, 2011. [2]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Overture" Gerald Walker RMB Justize, Gerald Walker1:12
2."Christmas Everyday" Gerald Walker, Fred Hammond, N. Hall,Chemist, Gerald Walker, Thurston "RoyalT" Magill (Saxophone)3:43
3."A Merry Good Christmas" Gerald Walker Slot-A3:41
4."I Want It All" Gerald Walker, M. TepCardo3:51
5."I'll Be Home For Christmas..." Gerald Walker Chemist3:57
6."All I Want For Christmas Is Zoe Saldana..." Gerald Walker RMB Justize3:12
7."My Name I Gabriel (The Annunciation)" Gerald Walker RMB Justize3:49

Credits

Gerald Walker - (Vocals) Cardo - (Producer) Chemist - (Producer) RMB Justize - (Producer) Matt Richards - (Mastering) Tayse Solo - (Engineer, Additional) Thurston "RoyalT" Magill - (Saxophone) Edward "Sledgren" Murray (Producer, Executive) Ronald "Cardo" LaTour (Producer, Executive) Ebony Haynes - (Publicity)

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References

  1. "Gerald Walker & The Family - "It's Christmastime Again, Gerald Walker (Artwork + Track List)". The Source Magazine. November 14, 2011. Archived from the original on November 19, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
  2. "Gerald Walker – Christmas Everyday [Prod. By Chemist]". YouHeardThatNew.com/ComplexMusic. November 11, 2011. Archived from the original on November 13, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2011.