A Christmas album

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A Christmas album
Studio album by Barbra Streisand

Publication
(s)

1967

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Traditional pop

Title (number)

11

running time

33:40

production

Jack Gold

Studio (s)

London , Los Angeles

chronology
Simply Streisand
(1967) 		A Christmas album What About Today?
(1969)

A Christmas Album is a music album by Barbra Streisand .

A Christmas Album is Barbra Streisand's first album with Christmas carols . It's one of the best-selling albums in Barbra Streisand's career and one of the best-selling Christmas carol albums ever. The album was awarded 5 platinum records by the RIAA . A Christmas Album , like Streisand's newest studio album, Simply Streisand, was released in October 1967. The cover photo was taken on June 16, 1967 during a rehearsal for their concert in Central Park . The songs on the first page of the record are popular American Christmas songs and Christmas standards arranged and conducted by Marty Paich , with the humorous, almost cabaret-like opening number of Jingle Bells being the most striking. On the second side of the LP, Barbra Streisand sings church Christmas carols, arranged and conducted by Ray Ellis .

The CD version of A Christmas Album was released in 1995 by Columbia Records (today: Sony ).

Track list

page A

  1. " Jingle Bells ?" ( 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 , Richard Rodgers ) - 3:09
  6. "The Best Gift" ( Lan O'Kun ) - 3:11

Side B

  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" ( Phillips Brooks , Lewis Speaker ) - 2:58
  4. "I Wonder as I Wander" ( John Jacob Niles ) - 3:18
  5. "The Lord's Prayer" ( Albert Hay Malotte ) - 2:43

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