Released October 22, 2012 Christmas Spirit(2012) Seven & Seven(2012) Release date 22 October 2012 | Label TourDForce | |
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Recorded Ocean Way Soundstage, Blackbird Studios, Renegade Studio Length 51:54 standard64:42 Target edition Similar Beautiful Goodbye, Stories to Tell, Days in Avalon, My Own Best Enemy, Flesh and Bone |
Richard marx christmas spirit official video
Christmas Spirit is a Christmas/Holiday seasonal release album by Richard Marx, released in October 2012. Five tracks of the album previously appeared on his 2011 release, The Christmas EP. It reached #181 on the Billboard album chart and got as high as #21 on Billboard's Christmas Albums chart.
Contents
- Richard marx christmas spirit official video
- Richard marx christmas spirit
- Track listing
- Bonus tracks
- Album credits
- Miscellaneous
- Songs
- References
Two of its new tracks became Top 20 Adult Contemporary hits. "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" is based on Casting Crowns arrangement of the song from their Peace On Earth album. Christmas Spirit yielded five singles, including "Christmas Spirit", "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", "The Little Drummer Boy", "Christmas Mornings" and "O Holy Night". The album features duets with Kenny Loggins, Sara Watkins and Sara Niemietz.
Marx returned to the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart's Top Ten chart with Little Drummer Boy in December 2012.
Richard marx christmas spirit
Track listing
- "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells)
- "Christmas Spirit" (Marx, Fee Waybill)
- "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/Mark Hall/Dale Oliver/Bernie Herms)
- "Let There Be Peace On Earth" (duet with Kenny Loggins) (Jill Miller, Sy Miller)
- "O Come All Ye Faithful" (unknown)
- "Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Kennicott Davis/Harry Simeone/Henry Onorati)
- "O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam, Placide Cappeau)
- "What Child Is This" (William Chatterton Dix)
- "Silent Night" (duet with Sara Watkins) (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr)
- "Christmas Mornings" (Marx, Dave Grusin)
- "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (duet with Sara Niemietz) (John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie)
- "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin)
- "Alleluia" (Larry Gatlin)
Bonus tracks
- "Blue Christmas" (Billy Hayes/Jay W. Johnson)
- "Silver Bells" (Jay Livingston/Ray Evans)
- "Jingle Bell Rock" (Joe Beal/Jim Boothe)
- "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin)
Album credits
Miscellaneous
Album was dedicated to grandmother Lois Guildoo and mother-in-law Edna Rhodes
Songs
1The Christmas Song4:30
2Christmas Spirit4:05
3I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day4:25