What a Night! A Christmas Album

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What a Night! A Christmas Album, by American singer, pianist and bandleader Harry Connick, Jr., is scheduled for release in Winter 2008.[1] It will be his third Christmas album, since 1993's When My Heart Finds Christmas and 2003's Harry for the Holidays. Also this album consist of new recordings of Christmas classics, and new songs written by Connick.[2]

The first public mentioning of recording the album, came in an interview in The Times-Picayune in June 2008.[3]

The album was first called Christmas Day, but the title was changed in September 2008, to What a Night! A Christmas Album.

The track "Song for the Hopeful", is a duet with Kim Burrell. The song was written by Connick for the 2008 television film Living Proof.[4] Burell is also featured on "Let There Be Peace On Earth".

Connick has three daughters with his wife Jill Goodacre, and their middle daughter Sarah Kate, sings a duet with him on the track "Winter Wonderland".[5]

When the track list was first announced, the songs "Christmas Time is Here" and "Trinity", was part of the album. In early October, those two tracks were replaced with three new tracks: "Christmas Day", "Auld Lang Syne", and an instrumental version of "Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairies".[5]

Connick and his band is scheduled to begin A Holiday Celebration Tour in November 2008. One of their stops include the annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

Track listing

  1. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (Edward Pola, George Wyle)
  2. "What A Night!" (Harry Connick, Jr.)
  3. "Christmas Day" (Connick)
  4. "Holly Jolly Christmas" (Johnny Marks)
  5. "Please Come Home for Christmas" (Charles Brown, Gene Redd)
  6. "O Come All Ye Faithful" (traditional)
  7. "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
  8. "Let There Be Peace On Earth" (Sy Miller, Jill Jackson) – feat. Kim Burrell
  9. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – feat. Sarah Kate Connick
  10. "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (Meredith Willson)
  11. "Santariffic" (Connick) – feat. Lucien Barbarin
  12. "Jingle Bells" (James Lord Pierpont)
  13. "Zat You Santa Claus" (Jack Fox)
  14. "We Three Kings" (Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr.)
  15. "Song for the Hopeful" (Connick) – feat. Kim Burrell
  16. "Auld Lang Syne" (traditional)


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  2. "Christmas Time is Here"
  3. Deck the Halls
  4. O Christmas Tree
  5. Holiday interview with Harry
  6. Photo gallery
  7. (It Must Have Been) Ol’ Santa Claus
  8. I Pray on Christmas
  9. The Happy Elf

Tour

A Holiday Celebration Tour
Tour by Harry Connick, Jr.
Harry Connick, Jr. concert chronology

A Holiday Celebration Tour 2008, is a concert tour to support the album. The tour was confirmed by the official Harry Connick, Jr. website in September 2008.

So far, per September 26, the official website has announced a partial list, which contains 17 concert dates.

Tour dates (incomplete)

Date City Country Venue
North America
November 18 2008 Louisville, KY United States Palace Theatre[6]
November 19 2008 Cincinnati, OH United States Taft Theatre[6]
November 20 2008 Columbus, OH United States Ohio Theatre[6]
November 21 2008 Charleston, WV United States Clay Center[6]
November 22 2008 Cleveland, OH United States State Theatre[6]
November 28 2008 New York, NY United States City Center Theatre[6]
November 29 2008
December 4 2008 Newark, NJ United States New Jersey Performing Arts Center[6]
December 5 2008 Atlantic City, NJ United States Borgata Event Center[6]
December 7 2008 St. Louis, MO United States Fox Theatre[6]
December 9 2008 Minneapolis, MN United States Orpheum Theatre[6]
December 10 2008 Chicago, IL United States Chicago Theatre[6]
December 11 2008
December 12 2008 Milwaukee, WI United States Riverside Theater[6]
December 14 2008 Nashville, TN United States Ryman Auditorium[6]
December 16 2008 Atlanta, GA United States Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre[6]
December 17 2008 Durham, NC United States Durham Performing Arts Center[6]
December 19 2008 Boston, MA United States Colonial Theatre[6]
December 20 2008

References

  1. ^ What a Night! A Christmas Album, Amazon.com
  2. ^ Harry Connick, Jr/What a Night! A Christmas Album, elusivedisc.com
  3. ^ Harry Connick Jr.'s new Lifetime movie raises money for breast cancer research, The Times-Picayune, June 22, 2008
  4. ^ What a Night! A Christmas Album, Barnes & Noble
  5. ^ a b Harry Connick, Jr. Celebrates the Holidays With Seasonal Favorites and New Songs on 'What A Night! - A Christmas Album', The Earth Times, October 6, 2008
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Harry Connick, Jr. – Tour Dates & Info". A Holiday Celebration Tour 2008. harryconnickjr.com. Retrieved 2008-10-26.

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