| What a Wonderful Christmas | ||||
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| Released | October 9, 2001 (2001-10-09) | |||
| Recorded | 1981, 88, 93, 2001 | |||
| Genre | Country, Holiday, Orchestral, Easy Listening | |||
| Length | 1:33:10 | |||
| Label | Straightway Records | |||
| Producer | Anne Murray Jim Ed Norman Steve Sexton Tommy West | |||
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What a Wonderful Christmas is an album by Canadian artist Anne Murray. It was released by Straightway Records on October 9, 2001. The album peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, number 6 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and number 83 on the Billboard 200.[2]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Joy to the World" | Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts | 2:09 |
| 2. | "Coventry Carol/White Christmas" | Traditional/Irving Berlin | 3:43 |
| 3. | "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" | Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis | 3:12 |
| 4. | "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" | Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne | 2:48 |
| 5. | "Winter Wonderland" | Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith | 2:59 |
| 6. | "O Little Town of Bethlehem" | Phillips Brooks, Lewis Redner | 3:10 |
| 7. | "Coventry Carol/Christmas in Killarney" | James Cavanaugh, John Redmond, Frank Weldon, Traditional | 2:45 |
| 8. | "This Season Will Never Grow Old" | Rita MacNeil | 3:10 |
| 9. | "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin | 3:14 |
| 10. | "O Come All Ye Faithful" | Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade | 4:26 |
| 11. | "Do You Hear What I Hear?" | Noël Regney, Gloria Shayne Baker | 2:48 |
| 12. | "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" | Meredith Willson | 2:46 |
| 13. | "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" | Robert MacGimsey | 3:49 |
| 14. | "I'll Be Home for Christmas" | Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram | 3:36 |
| Total length: | 44:35 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" | John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie, Traditional | 5:41 |
| 2. | "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Frosty the Snowman" | Johnny Marks, Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins | 3:39 |
| 3. | "Away in a Manger" | Traditional | 3:01 |
| 4. | "We Three Kings" | John Henry Hopkins Jr. | 3:02 |
| 5. | "Silver Bells" | Ray Evans, Jay Livingston | 2:44 |
| 6. | "The Little Drummer Boy" | Katherine Kennicott Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone | 3:46 |
| 7. | "The First Noël" | Traditional | 3:20 |
| 8. | "Go Tell It on the Mountain" | John Wesley Work Jr., Traditional | 2:50 |
| 9. | "Christmas Wishes" | Art Podell, Randy Sparks | 2:32 |
| 10. | "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" | Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley | 2:59 |
| 11. | "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" | Jester Hairston | 3:56 |
| 12. | "O Holy Night" | Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight | 3:08 |
| 13. | "Coventry Carol/The Christmas Song" | Mel Tormé, Robert Wells, Traditional | 3:34 |
| 14. | "Silent Night" | Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr | 4:23 |
| Total length: | 48:35 | ||
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