Released November 6, 1979 Artist Willie Nelson Producer Booker T. Jones | Length 29:15 Release date November 1979 | |
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Pretty Paper
(1979) The Electric Horseman
(1980) Label Sony Music Special Products Genres Country music, Christmas music Similar Born for Trouble, Yesterday's Wine, Moonlight Becomes You, Rainbow Connection, Both Sides Now | ||
Pretty Paper is a 1979 album by country singer Willie Nelson. His first Christmas album, it was also his last release of the 1970s.
Contents
The album reunited Nelson with producer/arranger Booker T. Jones, with whom he had collaborated on the acclaimed Stardust album released the year before.
The self-composed title track had been a hit Christmas song in 1963, when it was recorded by Roy Orbison. Nelson had previously recorded the song in 1964.
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Side one
- "Pretty Paper" (Willie Nelson) - 3:12
- "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 2:28
- "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard; Richard B. Smith) - 2:45
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) - 2:26
- "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont) - 2:12
- "Here Comes Santa Claus" (Gene Autry; Oakley Haldeman) - 2:11
Side two
- "Blue Christmas" (Billy Hayes; Jay Johnson) - 1:53
- "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots; Haven Gillespie) - 2:40
- "Frosty the Snowman" (Steve Nelson; Jack Rollins) - 2:13
- "Silent Night" (Joseph Mohr; Franz Xavier Gruber) - 2:27
- "Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillips Brooks; Lewis H. Redner) - 3:46
- "Christmas Blues (Instrumental)" (Willie Nelson; Booker T. Jones) - 3:12
Personnel
Songs
1Pretty Paper2:28
2White Christmas2:46
3Winter Wonderland2:26
References
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