Home for Christmas (Amy Grant album)

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Released October 6, 1992 Home for Christmas (1992) House of Love (1994) Release date 6 October 1992		Length 42:56 Artist Amy Grant Label A&M Records

Recorded 1992 at Javelina, Nashville, TN; RCA Studios, Nashville, TN; Omni Sound, Nashville, TN; The Dugout, Nashville, TN; Record One, Sherman Oaks, CA; Tejas Recorders, Franklin, TN; Quad Studios, Nashville, TN; Hip Pocket, New York, NY; The Hit Factory, New York, NY; CTS Studios, Wembley, England; Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood, CA Producer Brown Bannister, Ronn Huff Genres Christmas music, Contemporary Christian music Similar Amy Grant albums, Christmas music albums

Amy grant have yourself a merry little christmas

Home for Christmas is the 13th album by Christian music and pop music singer Amy Grant, released in 1992. It is Grant's second holiday album, the first being 1983's A Christmas Album.

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Commercial success

Coming off the heels of Grant's massively successful 1991 album Heart in Motion, Home for Christmas performed even better than Heart in Motion on the Billboard charts, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Christian album chart. It was later reissued in 2003 as 20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection: The Best of Amy Grant.

On November 17, 1997, Home for Christmas 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, Home for Christmas is the eighteenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,540,000 copies according to SoundScan.

Personnel

Amy Grant: lead vocals

Shane Keister: piano (4, 10), keyboards (8, 10, 11), string arrangement (10)

Carl Marsh: synthesizer (4), keyboards (11, 12), orchestration (12)

Robbie Buchanan: keyboards (6)

Clare Fischer: piano (9)

Blair Masters: keyboards (10, 11)

Phil Keaggy: guitars (5)

Tom Hemby: guitar (6, 12), acoustic guitar (10)

Jerry McPherson: guitar (7), acoustic guitar (10)

Dann Huff: guitar (10)

Craig Nelson: bass (7, 9)

David Hungate: bass (8, 10)

Chris McHugh: drums (7)

Steve Forman: percussion (7)

Paul Leim: drums (8, 10), percussion (10)

Harold Jones: drums (9)

Mark O'Connor: violin (12)

Ronn Huff: orchestration (1, 2, 3, 9), choral arrangement (3, 5, 11), conductor

Alan Moore: orchestration (6)

The London Studio Orchestra: strings (1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 12)

Nat Peck: contractor

The American Boychoir (3, 5, 10), directed by James Litton

Chris Eaton: background vocals (2, 7, 11), piano (11)

Marty McCall: background vocals (2, 7, 10)

Marabeth Jordan: background vocals (2, 7, 10)

Bonnie Keen: background vocals (2, 7, 10)

John Darnall: children's choir director (10)

Children's choir (10): Jessica Owen, Kristina Owen, Carrie Gardner, Lisa Pardin, Asher Larrison, Emily Estes, Bethany Wright, Skyla Carnahan, Katy Dunham and Ellie Bannister

Production

Producer: Brown Bannister

Producers (2, 3): Brown Bannister and Ronn Huff

Executive producers: Amy Grant and Michael Blanton

Tracking engineer: Bill Deaton

Assistant engineers: Patrick Kelly, Rich Indelicato and Greg Parker.

Overdubs engineered by Steve Bishir, assisted by Anthony Zecco, Brett Perry, Martin Woodley and Rail Rogut.

Additional engineering: Michael O'Reilly

Orchestra sessions engineered by Adrian Kerridge, assisted by James Collins.

Mix engineer: Bill Schnee

Mix assistant: Noel Hazen

Mastering: Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles, CA).

Remastering: Steve Hall at Futuredisc (North Hollywood, CA).

Production coordinator: Traci Sterling

Art direction: Rich Frankel and Chuck Beeson

Design: Rebecca Chamlee and Chuck Beeson

Photography: Victoria Pearson Cameron

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - CCM Magazine (North America)

Songs

1Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas2:37
2It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year2:28
3Joy to the World / For Unto Us a Child Is Born2:33

References

Home for Christmas (Amy Grant album) Wikipedia

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