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| Released | August 1991 |
| Genre | Christmas |
| Label | Liberty |
Merry Christmas is a compilation of Christmas songs that originally appeared on That Christmas Feeling (1968), Oh Happy Day (1970), The Christmas Sound of Music (1969) and The Night Before Christmas (1984).
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