Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
For the Burl Ives song, see A Holly Jolly Christmas.
| Have a Holly Jolly Christmas | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Studio album by Burl Ives | ||||
| Released | October 1965 (Album) | |||
| Genre | Christmas, folk, pop | |||
| Length | 29:28 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Producer | Milt Gabler | |||
| Burl Ives chronology | ||||
| ||||
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas is a Christmas album by American folk singer Burl Ives, first released by Decca Records in October 1965 (Recorded in November 1964).
Ives had recorded two of the songs ("A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") the previous year on the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer soundtrack. In both cases for this album, Ives re-recorded the tracks (he used a significantly different and slower arrangement for "A Holly Jolly Christmas;" of the two versions Ives recorded, the version on this album is the version more commonly heard on radio in modern times and also appeared on Regular Show episode White Elephant Gift Exchange where Muscle Man opens his present.).
Track listing
LP side 1:
- "A Holly Jolly Christmas" (Johnny Marks) – 2:15
- "Christmas is a Birthday" (Gregory Paul Deutsch, Dick Manning) – 2:42
- "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:09
- "Christmas Child" (Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett) – 2:50
- "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 2:10
- "Christmas Can't Be Far Away" (Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:34
LP side 2:
- "The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis, Henry V. Onorati, Harry Simeone) – 3:17
- "Snow for Johnny" (Fred Carter, Jr., Conway Twitty) – 2:38
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) – 2:10
- "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) – 2:17
- "Silver Bells" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 2:13
- "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (Johnny Marks) – 2:13
Personnel
- Burl Ives - lead vocals
- Owen Bradley – director of chorus and orchestra
References
- Decca DL 4689 (mono), DL 74689 (stereo), 1965 vinyl LP release
- MCA 15002 (1977 LP re-issue) at discogs.com
- MCAD 25992 (1995 CD re-issue) at discogs.com
- ↑ Torreano, Bradley. Have a Holly Jolly Christmas at AllMusic. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.