The Christmas Album (Air Supply album)

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The Christmas Album
The christmas album air supply cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1987
Studio A&M (Hollywood)
Genre Soft rock, Christmas
Label Arista
Producer Russell Hitchcock, Jimmy Ienner, Michael Lloyd, Graham Russell
Air Supply chronology
Hearts in Motion
(1986)
The Christmas Album
(1987)
The Earth Is...
(1991)
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The Christmas Album is the tenth studio album by British-Australian soft rock duo Air Supply, released in 1987. [2] It was their last studio album to be released under Arista Records. The album features recordings of classic Christmas songs plus the two original songs, "Love Is All" and "The Eyes of a Child". There is a short instrumental version of "What Child Is This" in the track "Silent Night".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 3:25
  2. "The First Noel" (Traditional, William Sandys) - 3:23
  3. "The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) - 3:07
  4. "The Eyes of a Child" (Graham Russell, Brendan Graham, Rolf Løvland, Ron Bloom) - 4:33
  5. "Silent Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr, John F. Young) - 3:08
  6. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Torme, Robert Wells) - 3:01
  7. "Sleigh Ride" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) - 2:23
  8. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) - 2:35
  9. "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade) - 3:14
  10. "Love Is All" (Graham Russell, Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly) - 4:30
  11. "I Don't Want to Lose You" (Graham Russell, Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly) - 3:12

Personnel

Production

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