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We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Ray Conniff album)

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1962 studio album by Ray Conniff
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Studio album by Ray Conniff
Released1962
RecordedMay 15–17, 1962
StudioCBS Recording Studios in Hollywood, California
GenrePop, Christmas, easy listening
Length30:58
LanguageEnglish
LabelColumbia
ProducerRann Productions, Inc.

Production Coordinator:

Ernie Altschuler

Recording Sessions Supervised by Bob Ballard
Ray Conniff chronology
'S Continental
(1962) 		We Wish You a Merry Christmas
(1962) 		Here We Come A-Caroling
(1965)

We Wish You a Merry Christmas is a 1962 album by Ray Conniff. The album was one of two platinum albums over the course of Conniff's career and earned him the title of CBS Records Best Selling Artist for 1962.

Track listing

International edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Medley: Jolly Old St. Nicholas / The Little Drummer Boy"Traditional, Katherine K. Davis4:46
2."Medley: O Holy Night / We Three Kings Of Orient Are / Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly"Adolphe Adam, John Henry Hopkins Jr., Traditional7:39
3."Ring Christmas Bells"Mykola Leontovych, Minna Louise Hohman2:30
4."Medley: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) / We Wish You a Merry Christmas"Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne, Irving Berlin, Traditional5:14
5."The Twelve Days of Christmas"Traditional4:18
6."Medley: The First Noel / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / O Come, All Ye Faithful / We Wish You a Merry Christmas"Traditional, Charles Wesley6:13

References

  1. (No author.) "Musician Ray Conniff dead at 85," UPI NewsTrack, 14 October 2002.
  2. (No author.) "Composer, bandleader Conniff dies at 85," American Press (Lake Charles, Louisiana), 15 October 2002, Entertainment section, page 15.
  3. "We Wish You A Merry Christmas: Ray Conniff and The Singers: MP3 Downloads". Retrieved 2012-03-14.
  4. "iTunes - Música - We Wish You a Merry Christmas de Ray Conniff". Itunes.apple.com. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
  5. Nobbman, Dale V. (2000). Christmas Music Companion Fact Book: The Chronological History of Our Most Well-Known Traditional Christmas Hymns, Carols, Songs And the Writers & Composers Who Created Them. Centerstream Publishing: Anaheim Hills, CA. p. 91. ISBN 1574240676.
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