What a Wonderful Christmas

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What a Wonderful Christmas
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Compilation album by
ReleasedOctober 9, 2001 (2001-10-09)
Recorded1981, 88, 93, 2001
Genre Country, Holiday, Orchestral, Easy Listening
Length1:33:10
Label Straightway Records
Producer Anne Murray
Jim Ed Norman
Steve Sexton
Tommy West
Anne Murray chronology
What a Wonderful World
(1999)
What a Wonderful Christmas
(2001)
Country Croonin'
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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What a Wonderful Christmas is an album by Canadian artist Anne Murray. It was released by Straightway Records on October 9, 2001. The album peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, number 6 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and number 83 on the Billboard 200. [2]

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Joy to the World" Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts 2:09
2."Coventry Carol/White Christmas"Traditional/Irving Berlin 3:43
3."It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis 3:12
4."Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 2:48
5."Winter Wonderland" Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith 2:59
6."O Little Town of Bethlehem" Phillips Brooks, Lewis Redner 3:10
7."Coventry Carol/Christmas in Killarney"James Cavanaugh, John Redmond, Frank Weldon, Traditional2:45
8."This Season Will Never Grow Old" Rita MacNeil 3:10
9."Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin 3:14
10."O Come All Ye Faithful" Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade 4:26
11."Do You Hear What I Hear?" Noël Regney, Gloria Shayne Baker 2:48
12."It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" Meredith Willson 2:46
13."Sweet Little Jesus Boy" Robert MacGimsey 3:49
14."I'll Be Home for Christmas" Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram 3:36
Total length:44:35
Disc 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Jolly Old Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie, Traditional5:41
2."Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Frosty the Snowman" Johnny Marks, Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins 3:39
3."Away in a Manger"Traditional3:01
4."We Three Kings" John Henry Hopkins Jr. 3:02
5."Silver Bells" Ray Evans, Jay Livingston 2:44
6."The Little Drummer Boy" Katherine Kennicott Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone 3:46
7."The First Noël"Traditional3:20
8."Go Tell It on the Mountain" John Wesley Work Jr., Traditional2:50
9."Christmas Wishes"Art Podell, Randy Sparks 2:32
10."Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley 2:59
11."Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" Jester Hairston 3:56
12."O Holy Night" Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight 3:08
13."Coventry Carol/The Christmas Song" Mel Tormé, Robert Wells, Traditional3:34
14."Silent Night" Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr 4:23
Total length:48:35

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