We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Ray Conniff album)

We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Studio album by Ray Conniff
Released	1962
Recorded	May 15–17, 1962
Studio	CBS Recording Studios in Hollywood, California
Genre	Pop, Christmas, easy listening
Length	30:58
Language	English
Label	Columbia
Producer	Rann Productions, Inc. Production Coordinator: Ernie Altschuler Recording Sessions Supervised by Bob Ballard
Ray Conniff chronology
'S Continental (1962) We Wish You a Merry Christmas (1962) Here We Come A-Caroling (1965)

We Wish You a Merry Christmas is a 1962 album by Ray Conniff. The album was one of two platinum albums over the course of Conniff's career ^[1] and earned him the title of CBS Records Best Selling Artist for 1962. ^[2]

Overview

It was his second Christmas album, and charted well. It peaked at No. 32 on the Billboard Top LPs, and stayed on the chart for 4 weeks. ^[3]

Track listing

International edition ^{[4] [5]}

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Medley: Jolly Old St. Nicholas / The Little Drummer Boy"	Traditional, Katherine K. Davis	4:46
2.	"Medley: O Holy Night / We Three Kings Of Orient Are / Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly"	Adolphe Adam, John Henry Hopkins Jr., Traditional	7:39
3.	"Ring Christmas Bells"	Mykola Leontovych, Minna Louise Hohman [6]	2:30
4.	"Medley: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) / We Wish You a Merry Christmas"	Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne, Irving Berlin, Traditional	5:14
5.	"The Twelve Days of Christmas"	Traditional	4:18
6.	"Medley: The First Noel / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / O Come, All Ye Faithful / We Wish You a Merry Christmas"	Traditional, Charles Wesley	6:13

Charts

Chart (1962)	Peak position
US Billboard Top LPs [3]	32
UK Albums Chart [7]	12

References

1. (No author.) "Musician Ray Conniff dead at 85," UPI NewsTrack, 14 October 2002.
2. (No author.) "Composer, bandleader Conniff dies at 85," American Press (Lake Charles, Louisiana), 15 October 2002, Entertainment section, page 15.
3. Whitburn, Joel (1996). Top LPs, 1955–1996. Record Research. p. 35. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
4. "We Wish You A Merry Christmas: Ray Conniff and The Singers: MP3 Downloads" . Retrieved March 14, 2012.
5. "iTunes - Música - We Wish You a Merry Christmas de Ray Conniff". iTunes . Retrieved March 14, 2012.
6. Nobbman, Dale V. (2000). Christmas Music Companion Fact Book: The Chronological History of Our Most Well-Known Traditional Christmas Hymns, Carols, Songs And the Writers & Composers Who Created Them. Centerstream Publishing: Anaheim Hills, CA. p. 91. ISBN   1574240676.
7. "RAY CONNIFF – full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Official Charts. Retrieved August 20, 2025.