Home for Christmas (Amy Grant album)

Home for Christmas
Studio album by Amy Grant
Released	October 6, 1992
Recorded	1992 at Javelina, Nashville, TN; RCA Studios, Nashville, TN; Omni Sound, Nashville, TN; The Dugout, Nashville, TN; Record One, Sherman Oaks, CA; Tejas Recorders, Franklin, TN; Quad Studios, Nashville, TN; Hip Pocket, New York, NY; The Hit Factory, New York, NY; CTS Studios, Wembley, England; Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood, CA
Genre	Holiday/Pop
Length	42:56
Label	A&M
Producer	Brown Bannister, Ronn Huff
Amy Grant chronology
Heart in Motion (1991) Home for Christmas (1992) House of Love (1994)
Singles from Home for Christmas
"Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)" Released: 1992 "Grown-Up Christmas List" Released: 1992 (US)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Home for Christmas is the 13th album by Christian music and pop music singer Amy Grant, released in 1992.

Home for Christmas is Amy Grant's second holiday album, the first being 1983's A Christmas Album. Coming off of the heels of Grant's massively successful 1991 album Heart in Motion, Home for Christmas performed even better than Heart in Motion on the Billboard charts, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Christian album chart. It was later reissued in 2003 as 20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection: The Best of Amy Grant.

On November 17, 1997, Home for Christmas was certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of three million copies in the United States.^[2]

As of November 2014, Home for Christmas is the eighteenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,540,000 copies according to SoundScan.^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"	Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin	2:36
2.	"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"	Edward Pola, George Wyle	2:26
3.	"Joy to the World/For Unto Us a Child Is Born"	George Frideric Handel, Isaac Watts	2:33
4.	"Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)"	Amy Grant, Chris Eaton	5:29
5.	"O Come All Ye Faithful"	John Francis Wade	3:01
6.	"Grown-Up Christmas List"	David Foster, Linda Thompson, additional lyrics by Amy Grant	5:00
7.	"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"	Johnny Marks	2:07
8.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard, Dick Smith	2:17
9.	"I'll Be Home for Christmas"	Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram	3:27
10.	"The Night Before Christmas"	Carly Simon	3:52
11.	"Emmanuel, God With Us"	Grant, Eaton, Robert Marshall	4:56
12.	"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Instrumental)"	Johann Sebastian Bach	4:47

Personnel

• Amy Grant: lead vocals
• Shane Keister: piano (4,10), keyboards (8,10,11), string arrangement (10)
• Carl Marsh: synthesizer (4), keyboards (11,12), orchestration (12)
• Phil Keaggy: guitars (5)
• Robbie Buchanan: keyboards (6)
• Tom Hemby: guitar (6,12), acoustic guitar (10)
• Jerry McPherson: guitar (7), acoustic guitar (10)
• Chris McHugh: drums (7)
• Craig Nelson: bass (7,9)
• Steve Forman: percussion (7)
• Paul Leim: drums (8,10), percussion (10)
• David Hungate: bass (8,10)
• Clare Fischer: piano (9)
• Harold Jones: drums (9)
• Blair Masters: keyboards (10,11)
• Dann Huff: guitar (10)
• Chris Eaton: piano (11), background vocals (7,11)
• Mark O'Connor: violin (12)
• Ronn Huff: orchestration (1,2,3,9), choral arrangement (3,5,11), conductor
• Alan Moore: orchestration (6)
• The London Studio Orchestra: strings (1,2,3,6,9,10,12)
• Nat Peck: contractor
• The American Boychoir (3,5,10), directed by James Litton
• Marty McCall: background vocals (7,10)
• Marabeth Jordan: background vocals (7,10)
• Bonnie Keen: background vocals (7,10)
• John Darnall: children's choir director (10)
• Children's choir (10): Jessica Owen, Kristina Owen, Carrie Gardner, Lisa Pardin, Asher Larrison, Emily Estes, Bethany Wright, Skyla Carnahan, Katy Dunham and Ellie Bannister

Production

• Producer: Brown Bannister
• Producers (2,3): Brown Bannister and Ronn Huff
• Executive producers: Amy Grant and Michael Blanton
• Tracking engineer: Bill Deaton
• Assistant engineers: Patrick Kelly, Rich Indelicato and Greg Parker
• Overdubs engineered by Steve Bishir, assisted by Anthony Zecco, Brett Perry, Martin Woodley and Rail Rogut
• Additional engineering: Michael O'Reilly
• Orchestra sessions engineered by Adrian Kerridge, assisted by James Collins
• Mix engineer: Bill Schnee
• Mix assistant: Noel Hazen
• Mastering: Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles, CA)
• Remastering: Steve Hall at Futuredisc (North Hollywood, CA)
• Production coordinator: Traci Sterling
• Art direction: Rich Frankel and Chuck Beeson
• Design: Rebecca Chamlee and Chuck Beeson
• Photography: Victoria Pearson Cameron

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1992	The Billboard 200	2
	Top Contemporary Christian	1
	Top Holiday Albums	1
1993	Top Pop Catalog	3

Singles - CCM Magazine (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1992	Breath Of Heaven (Mary's Song)	Christian Radio–Adult Contemporary	1

Commercial performance

Country	Sales	Certifications (sales thresholds)
Canada (CRIA)	50,000	Gold
United States (RIAA)	3,000,000	Platinum (3x)

Chart procession

References

1. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r133935/review
2. "RIAA Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
3. "The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2014-12-02.