Released October 30, 2001 Length 45:20 Artist Mannheim Steamroller Producer Chip Davis Genre New-age music | Recorded 2001 Christmas Extraordinaire
(2001) American Spirit
(2003) Release date 30 October 2001 Label American Gramaphone | |
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Christmas Extraordinaire
(2001) Christmas Celebration
(2004) Similar Mannheim Steamroller albums, New-age music albums | ||
Christmas Extraordinaire is Mannheim Steamroller's sixth Christmas album overall and the group's fourth Christmas studio album. The album was originally released in 2001. The song "O Tannenbaum" features a lead vocal by Johnny Mathis.
Contents
Five of the album's tracks were included in the group's 2004 compilation Christmas Celebration.
On June 21, 2004, Christmas Extraordinaire was certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of three million copies in the United States.
As of November 2014, Christmas Extraordinaire is the fourteenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. in the Nielsen SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,920,000 copies according to SoundScan.
Track listing
- "Hallelujah" – 4:43
- "White Christmas" – 3:35
- "Away in a Manger" – 3:23
- "Faeries" ("Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite) – 2:29
- "Do You Hear What I Hear?" – 4:06
- "The First Noel" – 3:38
- "Silver Bells" – 4:28
- "Fum, Fum, Fum" – 4:51
- "Some Children See Him" – 3:34
- "Winter Wonderland" – 3:42
- "O Tannenbaum" (vocal by Johnny Mathis) – 3:01
- "Auld Lang Syne" (Originally recorded on Chip Davis' Impressions with choir overdub) – 3:42
Personnel
Songs
1Hallelujah4:43
2White Christmas3:35
3Away in a Manger3:23