Merry Christmas Strait to You!

Merry Christmas Strait to You!
Studio album by George Strait
Released	September 8, 1986 (1986-09-08)
Studio	Sound Stage Studios (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country, Christmas
Length	26:38
Label	MCA
Producer	Jimmy Bowen George Strait
George Strait chronology
#7 (1986) Merry Christmas Strait to You! (1986) Ocean Front Property (1987)

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Allmusic	[1]

Merry Christmas Strait to You! is the first Christmas album by American country music artist George Strait, released on September 8, 1986 by MCA Records. It reached #17 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and is certified double platinum by the RIAA.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	3:03
2.	"There's a New Kid in Town"	Don Cook, Curly Putman, Keith Whitley	4:27
3.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard, Richard Bernhard Smith	2:23
4.	"Merry Christmas Strait to You"	Bob Kelly	2:40
5.	"Away in a Manger"	James R. Murray	2:44

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"For Christ's Sake, It's Christmas"	Hank Cochran, Dean Dillon	3:13
7.	"Frosty the Snowman"	Walter E. Rollins, Steve Nelson	2:18
8.	"When It's Christmas Time in Texas"	Benny McArthur	3:09
9.	"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"	John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie	2:12
10.	"What a Merry Christmas This Could Be"	Cochran, Harlan Howard	3:05
Total length:			26:38 [1]

Personnel

• George Strait – lead vocals
• John Barlow Jarvis – acoustic piano
• Billy Joe Walker Jr. – acoustic guitars
• Larry Byrom – electric guitars
• Reggie Young – electric guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• David Hungate – bass guitar
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Johnny Gimble – fiddle
• Curtis Young – backing vocals

Production

• Jimmy Bowen – producer
• George Strait – producer
• Bob Bullock – recording, overdub recording, mixing
• Steve Tillisch – overdub recording
• Mark J. Coddington – second engineer
• Tim Kish – second engineer
• Russ Martin – second engineer
• Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Simon Levy – art direction
• Tal Howard – design
• Mike Drake – illustration
• Peter Nash – photography
• Erv Woolsey – management

Chart positions

Chart (1986)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	17

References

1. Merry Christmas Strait to You! at AllMusic