A Very Merry Christmas

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A Very Merry Christmas was Bobby Vinton's ninth studio album and first Christmas album, released in October 1964. Vinton had released a four-track Christmas EP which entered the charts the previous year, containing none of the tracks included on A Very Merry Christmas. Due to Billboard editorial policy, it was held off the regular Billboard LP listings. It reached #13 on a Christmas version of the Billboard Hot 200 list of popular albums. The CD, not currently in print, is a valuable collectors' item. Some of the tracks are available on the in-print disc Kissin' Christmas.

There were two singles to come from this album: "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle" and "Dearest Santa".

Track listing

Side 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Christmas Chopsticks"	Heider	2:12
2.	"The Bell That Couldn't Jingle"	Burt Bacharach, Lawrence Kusik	2:20
3.	"Do You Hear What I Hear"	Noël Regney, Gloria Shayne	2:53
4.	"Dearest Santa"	Bonnie Boyd, Michael Dunn	2:52
5.	"The Greatest Gift"	Bobby Vinton, Lloyd	2:28
6.	"Christmas in Killarney"	James Cavanaugh, John Redmond, Frank Weldon	2:27

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Peppermint Stick Parade"	Manning, Lenwood Morris	1:52
2.	"Christmas Angel"	Bobby Vinton, Lloyd	2:45
3.	"The Christmas Tree"	Goodwin	3:04
4.	"Three Wise Men, Wise Men Three"	Noël Regney, Gloria Shayne	2:40
5.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	2:37
6.	"My Christmas Prayer"	Lyn Duddy, Jerry Bresler	3:16

Personnel

• Robert Morgan - producer
• Stan Applebaum - arranger, conductor
• Ray Ellis - arranger, conductor
• Hugo Winterhalter - arranger, conductor

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1964	The Billboard 200	13

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1964	"The Bell That Couldn't Jingle"	The Billboard Hot 100	23
1964	"Dearest Santa"	The Billboard Hot 100	8