The Christmas Album (The Manhattan Transfer album)

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The Christmas Album
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1992
Genre Vocal jazz, Christmas music
Length47:34
Label Columbia
Producer Tim Hauser, Johnny Mandel
The Manhattan Transfer chronology
Anthology: Down in Birdland
(1992)
The Christmas Album
(1992)
The Very Best of The Manhattan Transfer
(1994)

The Christmas Album was the fourteenth album by The Manhattan Transfer, released in 1992 on Columbia Records.

Contents

This album was produced by Tim Hauser and Johnny Mandel and features a guest appearance by Tony Bennett on "The Christmas Song". The album also includes "Good Night", the only Beatles song the Manhattan Transfer has recorded.

Production

The album production lasted about three months. The album's original track is "A Christmas Love Song". [1]

Track listing

  1. "Snowfall" (Claude Thornhill, Ruth Thornhill) - 5:35
  2. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) - 4:34
  3. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town/Santa Man" (Medley) (J Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie, Alan Paul) - 3:02
  4. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) - 4:40
  5. "Silent Night, Holy Night" (Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr) - 5:55
  6. "Caroling, Caroling" (Alfred Burt, Wilha Hutson) - 1:24
  7. "Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season" (Medley) (Irving Berlin, Kay Thompson) - 4:06
  8. "A Christmas Love Song" (Johnny Mandel, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman) - 4:08
  9. "It Came Upon The Midnight Clear" (Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis) - 5:55
  10. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) - 4:39
  11. "Good Night" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:50

Credits

The Manhattan Transfer

Musicians

Rhythm Section and Soloists

Brass and Strings

Guest Vocalists

Arrangements

Production

Studios

Notes Ⓟ 1992 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. © 1992 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

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References

  1. "Mandel's gift is the Album". Austin American Statesman . Austin, Texas. December 26, 1992. Time Out section, p. 4.