Released November 1967 Length 27:27 Artist Ella Fitzgerald Producer Dave Dexter Jr. Genre Jazz | Recorded July 17–18, 1967 Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas
(1967) 30 by Ella
(1968) Release date November 1967 Label Capitol Records | |
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Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas is a 1967 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald. This was her second and last Christmas album. Unlike her previous Christmas album (which was almost completely secular), this album consisted of only religious Christmas songs. It was her second album for Capitol Records, the album charted at #27 on Billboard's Holiday Albums chart.
Contents
Track listing
For the 1967 LP on Capitol Records; Capitol ST ST 2805; Re-issued in 2000 on CD, Capitol 7243 5 27674 2 7
Side One:
- "O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight) – 1:47
- "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (Edmund Hamilton Sears, Richard Storrs Willis) – 3:21
- "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) – 1:49
- "Away in a Manger" (Traditional) – 2:12
- "Joy to the World" (Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) – 1:40
- "The First Noel" (William B. Sandys) – 1:50
- "Silent Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr) – 2:52
Side Two:
- "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade) – 2:45
- "Sleep, My Little Jesus" – 2:17
- "Angels We Have Heard on High" (Traditional) – 1:45
- "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillip Brooks, Lewis H. Redner) – 2:10
- "We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins Jr.) – 2:07
- "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Traditional) – 1:27
Performance
Songs
1O Holy Night1:48
2It Came Upon A Midnight Clear3:20
3Hark the Herald Angels Sing1:48
References
Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA