Christmas Present (Andy Williams album)
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Released | October 1974[1] | |||
Recorded | 1974 | |||
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Length | 36:31 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Dick Glasser Larry Brown[3] | |||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
Billboard | Top Album Pick[1] |
Christmas Present is the third
Williams's two previous solo Christmas LPs (
The album was released for the first time on CD in 1990.[2] It was also included in a 2013 compilation of his Columbia Christmas releases titled The Complete Christmas Recordings.
Track listing
Side one
- "Christmas Present" (Larry H. Brown,[8] Keats Tyler) – 2:30
- "Joy To The World" (Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) – 2:52
- "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillip Brooks, Lewis H. Redner) – 2:32
- "Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych, Peter Wilhousky, Minna Louise Hohman) – 1:52
- "Edmund Hamilton Sears, Richard Storrs Willis) – 3:12
- "Ave Maria" (Franz Schubert) – 4:34
Side two
- "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade) – 2:35
- "Angels We Have Heard On High" (traditional) – 2:32
- "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) – 2:39
- "Ave Maria" (Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Gounod) – 3:05
- "What Child Is This" (William Chatterton Dix) – 2:31
- "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (John Baptiste Calkin, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) – 2:47
- "The Lord's Prayer" (Albert Hay Malotte) – 2:40
- A The back cover and label of the original vinyl release of this album list the title of this track as "Christmas Bells", and the label gives songwriting credit to Harry Filler and Leonard Schroeder, who did write a song called "Christmas Bells" that was recorded by Patti Page for her 1951 album Christmas with Patti Page.
Personnel
From the liner notes for the original album:[3]
- Andy Williams - vocalist
- Keats Tyler - front cover photo
- Sandy Speiser - front cover photo
- Don Eddy, FPG - back cover photo
Title track
Recorded at Columbia Records Studios, New York.
- Larry Brown - producer
- Jack Feierman - conductor
- Frank Laice - engineer
All other tracks
Recorded at The Music Centre, London, England.
- Dick Glasser - producer
- Ernie Freeman - arranger
- Ken Thorne - conductor
- The Mike Sammes Singers - background vocals
References
- ^ a b "Billboard's Top Album Picks". Billboard. 1974-10-26. p. 66.
- ^ a b c "Christmas Present - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ^ a b (1974) Christmas Present by Andy Williams [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records C 33191.
- ^ "Inside Track". Billboard. 1974-11-23. p. 86.
- ^ "MOR Artists Are Ailing". Billboard. 1974-11-23. p. 86.
- ^ Whitburn 2004, pp. 106–107.
- ^ Whitburn 2010, p. 844.
- ^ "BMI | Repertoire Search for song title "Christmas Present"". Archived from the original on 2004-03-25. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
Bibliography
- Whitburn, Joel (2004), Christmas in the Charts (1920-2004), Record Research Inc., ISBN 0-89820-161-6
- Whitburn, Joel (2010), Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums, Seventh Edition, Record Research Inc., ISBN 978-0-89820-183-3