Merry Christmas

by Johnny Mathis

Overview

Of the several Christmas LPs Johnny Mathis has recorded, this one gets the nod. With empathetic arrangements by Percy Faith, it's impossible to say how many babies were born the following September after parents heard Johnny Mathis crooning "The Christmas Song." Smo-o-o-oth ! ~ Dennis MacDonald

Product Details

Release Date:	10/02/2020
Label:	Columbia / Sony Music
UPC:	0194397641417
Rank:	25555

Tracks

1. Winter Wonderland
2. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
3. Sleigh Ride
4. Blue Christmas
5. I'll Be Home for Christmas
6. White Christmas
7. O Holy Night
8. What Child Is This?
9. The First Noel
10. Silver Bells
11. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
12. Silent Night, Holy Night

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Johnny Mathis   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Percy Faith & His Orchestra   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Harold Chapman   Audio Engineer,Engineer
Al Ham   Audio Production,Producer
Mitch Miller   Audio Production,Producer
Traditional   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Cliff Morris   Assistant Engineer
Kim Gannon   Composer
Edmund Sears   Composer
Darcy Proper   Mixing Engineer,Mastering Engineer
Franz Gruber   Composer
Jay Johnson   Composer,Composer
Didier C. Deutsch   Producer
Joseph Mohr   Composer
Robert Waller   Assistant Engineer
Mel Torme   Composer
Adolphe Adam   Composer
Ray Evans   Composer
R.S. Willis   Composer
Buck Ram   Composer
Mitchell Parish   Composer
William Chatterton Dix   Composer
Allyn Ferguson   Composer
Paul Francis Webster   Composer
Walter Kent   Composer
Leroy Anderson   Composer
Felix Bernard   Composer
Jay Livingston   Composer
Jerry Livingston   Composer
Dick Smith   Composer,Composer
Robert Wells   Composer
A. Ferguson   Composer
William Sandys   Composer
Richard Storrs Willis   Composer
Friedman-Abeles   Photography
Adam Farber   A&R
Stephan Moore   Product Manager
Sidney Shaw   Composer
Ken Fredette   Design,Art Direction
John Sullivan Dwight   Composer
Steve Berkowitz   A&R
Stacey Boyle   Research
Richard B. Smith   Composer
Billy Hayes   Composer
Bill Hayes   Composer
Richard Willis   Composer
Raymond Evans   Composer

Editorial Reviews

Sure, Nat King Cole did a killer job with "The Christmas Song," but Johnny Mathis's version ain't chopped liver either. That all-time yuletide ballad and other holiday gems are given the grand treatment by the golden-throated Mathis and Percy Faith, the '50s king of candy-coated arrangements. Release date: 1958.

barnesandnoble.com

Of the several Christmas LPs Mathis has recorded, this one gets the nod. With empathetic arrangements by Percy Faith, it's impossible to say how many babies were born the following September after parents heard Johnny Mathis crooning "The Christmas Song." Smo-o-o-oth ! -- All-Music Guide

Dennis MacDonald