Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas

Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released	November 1967
Recorded	July 17–18, 1967
Genre	Jazz
Length	27:27
Label	Capitol
Producer	Dave Dexter Jr.
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Brighten the Corner (1967) Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas (1967) 30 by Ella (1968)

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Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas is a 1967 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald. It was her second and last Christmas album. Unlike Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas, her previous Christmas album which was entirely secular, this album consists only of religious Christmas songs. It was her second album for Capitol Records. It charted at #27 on Billboard's Holiday Albums chart.^[2]

Track listing

For the 1967 LP on Capitol Records; Capitol ST ST 2805; re-issued in 2000 on CD, Capitol 7243 5 27674 2 7

Side One:

1. "O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight) – 1:47
2. "
   Edmund Hamilton Sears, Richard Storrs Willis
   ) – 3:21
3. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) – 1:49
4. "Away in a Manger" (Traditional) – 2:12
5. "Joy to the World" (Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) – 1:40
6. "
   William B. Sandys
   ) – 1:50
7. "
   Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr
   ) – 2:52

1. "
   O Come All Ye Faithful" (Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade
   ) – 2:45
2. "Sleep, My Little Jesus" – 2:17
3. "Angels We Have Heard on High" (Traditional) – 1:45
4. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillip Brooks, Lewis H. Redner) – 2:10
5. "We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins Jr.) – 2:07
6. "
   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
   " (Traditional) – 1:27

Personnel

Performance

• Ella Fitzgerald – vocal
• Ralph Carmichael – arranger, conductor

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