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Twelve Songs of Christmas

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Released
  
1963 (1963)

Twelve Songs of Christmas (1963)
  
Kimberley Jim (1964)

Release date
  
1963

Label
  
RCA Victor

Length
  
31:30

Artist
  
Jim Reeves

Producer
  
Chet Atkins

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Recorded
  
October 19 and 25, 1962 July 5, 1963

Genres
  
Christmas music, Country music

Similar
  
Jim Reeves albums, Country music albums

Twelve Songs of Christmas is an album by Jim Reeves released in the US in 1963. It was Reeves' first and only Christmas-themed release. The album was released on the RCA Victor label, in stereo (LSP-2758) and mono (LPM-2758) respectively. The album was first released in South Africa as Merry Christmas from Jim Reeves as an eleven-track album. "Silver Bells" was recorded in July 1963 to create the twelve track US album released in 1963.

Contents

Side one

  1. "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont) – 1:46
  2. "Blue Christmas" (Billy Hayes/Jay W. Johnson) – 3:00
  3. "Señor Santa Claus" (Lawton Williams) – 2:27
  4. "An Old Christmas Card" (Vaughn Horton) – 2:32
  5. "The Merry Christmas Polka" (Willie Phelps) – 2:25
  6. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 2:27

Side two

  1. "Silver Bells" (Ray Evans/Jay Livingston) – 2:00
  2. "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S" (Eddy Arnold/Jenny Lou Carson) – 1:51
  3. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillip Brooks/Lewis Redner) – 3:29
  4. "Mary's Boy Child" (Jester Hairston) – 2:42
  5. "Oh Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)" (Traditional) – 2:34
  6. "Silent Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber/Joseph Mohr) – 2:34

2001 Reissue

Twelve Songs of Christmas was released on CD in 2001 on the BMG Special Products label.

Songs

1Jingle Bells1:51
2Blue Christmas3:12
3Senor Santa Claus2:25

References

Twelve Songs of Christmas Wikipedia
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