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The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs

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Released
  
November 1986

Length
  
56:23

Release date
  
November 1986

Label
  
Hansa Records

Recorded
  
1981, 1984, 1986

Artist
  
Boney M.

Producer
  
Frank Farian

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The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs (1986)
  
Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88 (1988)

Genres
  
Disco, Pop music, Euro disco, Rhythm and blues

Similar
  
Boney M albums, Pop music albums

The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs is a compilation/remix album by Boney M.. In 1986 producer Frank Farian took the master tapes from 1981's Christmas Album, added six recordings by Liz Mitchell, Reggie Tsiboe and two session singers from 1984, remixed them and created Die 20 schönsten Weihnachtslieder der Welt, internationally released as The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs. The 1986 version of the Boney M. Christmas album has since been re-issued as The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World (1992), A Wonderful Christmas Time (1998) and Christmas Party (1998 and 2003).

Contents

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Christmas Medley ("Silent Night, Holy Night" / "Snow Falls Over the Ground" / "Hear Ye the Message" / "Sweet Bells") (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr, Farian, Jay) - 7:51
  2. Full-length version including the previously unreleased "Sweet Bells". Features Amy & Elaine Goff singing the first verse of "Silent Night, Holy Night" in German - instead of Liz Mitchell singing the first verse in English.
  3. "Oh Christmas Tree" ("O Tannenbaum") (Ernst Anschütz, Farian) - 2:54
  4. "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley, Farian) - 3:03
  5. "Zion's Daughter" (George Frideric Handel, Traditional, Farian, Jay, Rulofs) - 3:50
  6. "The First Noel" (Traditional) - 3:03
  7. "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" (John Francis Wade, Farian) - 3:41
  8. "Petit Papa Noël" (Martinet, Vincy) - 1:41
  9. "Darkness Is Falling" (Jay, Rulofs) - 3:02

Side B

  1. "Joy to the World" (Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) - 2:32
  2. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 3:21
  3. Edited version
  4. "Jingle Bells" (James Lord Pierpont, Farian) - 3:28
  5. "Feliz Navidad" (José Feliciano) - 2:21
  6. "When a Child Is Born" (Jay, Zacar) - 3:19
  7. "Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) - 4:21
  8. "Mary's Boy Child - Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian) - 5:09
  9. Edited version
  10. "Auld Lang Syne" (Robert Burns, Traditional) - 2:34

Personnel

  • Liz Mitchell - lead vocals (except trk. A2, A5, A6, B1, B8), backing vocals
  • Marcia Barrett - backing vocals (track B3, B4, B7)
  • Frank Farian - backing vocals
  • Reggie Tsiboe - lead vocals, backing vocals (tracks A2, A5, A6, B1 & B8)
  • London Christmas Choir - choir (tracks A1, A5, A7, A8, B2, B5 & B6)
  • Amy & Elaine Goff - lead- and backing vocals (tracks A1, A2, A3, A5, A6, B1 & B8)
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra - orchestra

    • Production

  • Frank Farian - producer, remixer

    • Release history

  • Germany 1986: Die 20 schönsten Weihnachtslieder der Welt Hansa Records 208 018-630, LP
  • EU 1986: The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs Hansa 208 116-320, LP
  • EU 1986: The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs Hansa 258 116-200, CD
  • Germany 1991: Happy Christmas BMG-Ariola/Ariola Express 295 603-200, CD

    • Songs

    1Christmas Medley: Silent Night - Holy Night / Snow Falls Over the Ground / Hear Ye the Message7:51
    2Oh Christmas Tree2:54
    3Hark the Herald Angels Sing3:04

    References

    The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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