A Christmas Album (Barbra Streisand album)
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| Studio album by Barbra Streisand | ||||
| Released | October 1967 | |||
| Recorded | June 1966 at Olympia Sound Studios in London; 9–16 September 1967 in Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 33:40 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Jack Gold | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
A Christmas Album (1967) is the first Christmas album released by Barbra Streisand.
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[edit] Background
The album is one of Streisand's best-selling albums and is ranked as one of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time.[citation needed] Many of the tracks on this album were re-issued in 1970 as part of a compilation album titled Seasons Greetings from Barbra Streisand...and Friends, pieced together by Maxwell House Coffee and Columbia Special Products. The cover photograph of the album was taken on June 16, 1967 during the rehearsal for her concert, A Happening in Central Park.
On May 5, 1999, A Christmas Album was certified Quintuple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of five million copies in the United States.[2]
[edit] Chart
On Billboard magazine's special year-end weekly Christmas Albums chart, A Christmas Album spent all five weeks that the chart was published in late 1967 at number 1, making it the best-selling holiday album of 1967 in the U.S.[3] The album charted for the first time on Billboard's weekly Billboard 200 album sales chart in December 1981, peaking at position #108 during a five-week chart run.
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Jingle Bells?" (New adaptation by Jack Gold and Marty Paich) | James Pierpont | 1:58 |
| 2. | "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin | 3:14 |
| 3. | "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" | Mel Tormé, Bob Wells | 4:00 |
| 4. | "White Christmas" | Irving Berlin | 3:08 |
| 5. | "My Favorite Things" | Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers | 3:09 |
| 6. | "The Best Gift" | Lan O'Kun | 3:11 |
[edit] Side two
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Sleep in Heavenly Peace (Silent Night)" | Franz Gruber | 3:07 |
| 2. | "Gounod's Ave Maria" | Charles Gounod | 3:26 |
| 3. | "O Little Town of Bethlehem" | New adaptation by Jack Gold | 2:58 |
| 4. | "I Wonder as I Wander" | John Jacob Niles | 3:18 |
| 5. | "The Lord's Prayer" | Albert Hay Malotte | 2:43 |
[edit] Personnel
- Barbra Streisand – singer
- Marty Paich – arranger, conductor
- Ray Ellis – arranger, conductor (*)
- Jack Gold – producer
- Rafael O. Valentin – recording engineer
- Jack Lattig – recording engineer
[edit] References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "RIAA Searchable Database - Gold & Platinum Certifications". Recording Industry Association of America. http://riaa.org/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=A%20Christmas%20Album&artist=Barbra%20Streisand&format=ALBUM&debutLP=&category=SOLO&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&awardDescription=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=12&startYear=1958&endYear=2010&sort=Artist&perPage=25. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Christmas in the Charts (1920-2004). Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 195. ISBN 0-89820-161-6.
[edit] External links
- Barbra Streisand albums
- 1967 Christmas albums
- Christmas albums by American artists
- Albums arranged by Marty Paich
- Columbia Records Christmas albums
- English-language albums
- Albums conducted by Marty Paich
- Albums conducted by Ray Ellis
- Albums arranged by Ray Ellis
- Albums certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America
