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The Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection

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Length
  
34:51

Release date
  
21 September 1999

Artist
  
Reba McEntire

Label
  
MCA Nashville Records

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Released
  
September 21, 1999 Recorded = 1999

The Secret of Giving A Christmas Collection (1999)
  
So Good Together (1999)

Genres
  
Country music, Christmas music

Producers
  
David Malloy, Reba McEntire

Similar
  
Reba McEntire albums, Christmas music albums

The Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection is Reba McEntire's twenty-fifth album, and second Christmas album, the follow-up to her 1987 album Merry Christmas to You. The album features mostly new, original holiday tunes with only a couple of traditional favorites. The children featured on "The Angels Sang" are actually the class of her son Shelby who was in the third grade at the time. The album peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard country chart and is currently certified Gold by the RIAA.It has sold 940,000 copies as of December 2013 in the US, and over 1 million copies worldwide.

Contents

The album was followed by a CBS made-for-television movie also called The Secret of Giving. The film starred McEntire and aired on Thanksgiving night in 1999. It featured songs from the album as its soundtrack.

Personnel

  • Reba McEntire - lead vocals
  • Eddie Bayers - drums
  • Paul Leim - drums
  • Richard "Spady" Brannan - bass guitar
  • Glenn Worf - bass guitar, upright bass
  • B. James Lowry - acoustic guitar
  • Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
  • Jeff King - electric guitar
  • Brent Mason - electric guitar
  • Jerry McPherson - electric guitar
  • Jimmy Nichols - keyboards, background vocals
  • Larry Franklin - fiddle
  • Terry Crisp - steel guitar
  • Paul Franklin - steel guitar
  • Eric Darken - percussion
  • Will Smith - autoharp
  • Liana Manis - background vocals
  • Joe Chemay - background vocals
  • Songs

    1This Is My Prayer for You3:40
    2I Saw Mama Kissing Santa Claus3:44
    3One Child - One Day3:31

    References

    The Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection Wikipedia