A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra

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A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra

Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	1957
Recorded	July 10-May 1, 1957 Capitol Studio A, Hollywood
Genre	Classic pop
Length	38:17
Label	Capitol Records
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Frank Sinatra chronology
Where Are You? (1957)	A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra (1957)	Come Fly With Me (1957)

A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra is a Christmas album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released by Capitol Records in 1957.

This was Sinatra's first Christmas album. It features the Ralph Brewer Singers along with an orchestra conducted by Gordon Jenkins.

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"Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont) – 2:00
"The Christmas Song" (Mel Torme, Robert Wells) – 3:28
"Mistletoe and Holly" (Sanicola, Frank Sinatra, Stanford) – 2:18
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Gannon, Kent, Ram) – 3:11
"The Christmas Waltz" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:03
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Blane, Ralph Martin) – 3:29
"The First Noël" (Sandys) – 2:44
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) – 2:24
"O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Lewis H. Redner, Phillip Brooks) – 2:06
"Adeste Fideles (O, Come All Ye Faithful) (John Francis Wade, arr. Oakeley, Reading) – 2:34
"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" (Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis) – 2:51
"Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr) – 2:31
"White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 2:37
"The Christmas Waltz" (alternate) (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:01

The last two songs are bonus tracks on the compact disc release, which was re-titled The Sinatra Christmas Album. They were recorded in 1954 with Nelson Riddle.

The Album artwork featured here is not the original album cover released in 1957 by Capitol Records