One Wish: The Holiday Album

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One Wish: The Holiday Album

Studio album by Whitney Houston
Released	November 18, 2003
Genre	Pop/R&B
Length	43:15
Label	Arista
Producer(s)	Gordon Chambers, Barry Eastmond, Whitney Houston, Troy Taylor, Mervyn Warren
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Whitney Houston chronology
Just Whitney (2002)	One Wish: The Holiday Album (2003)	TBA (2007)

One Wish: The Holiday Album is a Christmas album and the sixth studio album by American R&B/pop singer Whitney Houston, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music). The single "One Wish (for Christmas)" (a cover of the Freddie Jackson song) reached the top twenty on Billboard's U.S. Adult Contemporary chart in the U.S., but the album itself failed to achieve gold status, Houston's first studio album not to do so,^[1] and it sold just 348,000 copies.^[2]

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Production
4 Charts
5 Notes

[edit] Track listing

"The First Noël" (Traditional) – 3:14
"The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 3:12
"The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) – 4:29
"One Wish (for Christmas)" (Gordon Chambers, Barry Eastmond, Freddie Jackson) – 4:12
"Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)" (Traditional) – 3:48
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram) – 3:45
"Deck the Halls/Silent Night" (Traditional) – 4:29
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 4:49
"O Come O Come Emanuel" (Traditional) – 3:06
"Who Would Imagine a King" (Hallerin Hilton Hill, Mervyn Warren) – 3:30
"Joy to the World" (Traditional) – 4:41

[edit] Personnel

Whitney Houston - vocals
Julien Barber - viola
Sandra Billingslea - violin
Edie Lehmann Boddicker - background vocals
Joseph Bongiorno - upright bass
Alfred Brown - viola
Carmen Carter - background vocals
Gordon Chambers - background vocals
Bernard Davis - drums
John R. Dexter - viola
Earl Dumler - oboe
Barry Eastmond - conductor, keyboard
Max Ellen - violin
Ian Freebairn-Smith - background vocals
Roger Freeland - background vocals
Sharlotte Gibson - background vocals
Sandi Hall - background vocals
Phil Hamilton - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Reggie Hamilton - bass
Ashley Horne - violin
Gary Houston - background vocals
Regis Iandiorio - violin
Paul Jackson Jr. - guitar
Ronald Jenkins - bass
Bashiri Johnson - percussion
Olivia Koppell - viola
Gail Kruvand - upright bass
Leonid Levin - violin
Jesse Levy - cello
Ezekiel Lewis - background vocals
Stephen Mackey - background vocals
Margaret Magill - violin
Myrna Matthews - background vocals
Kermit Moore - cello
Michael Morton - flute
Eugene J. Moye - cello
Dean Parks - guitar
Carol Pool - violin
Maxine Roach - viola
Andy Stein - violin
Katherine LiVolsi Stern - violin
Sally Stevens - background vocals
Marti Sweet - violin
Gerald Tarack - violin, concert master
Troy Taylor - bass, drums, keyboard, background vocals
Shelene Thomas - background vocals
Carmen Twillie - background vocals
Mervyn Warren - percussion, piano, conductor, keyboard, electric piano, vocals, background vocals
Oren Waters - background vocals
John West - background vocals
Gerald White - background vocals
Belinda Whitney - violin
Harry Zaratzian - viola

[edit] Production

Producers: Gordon Chambers, Barry Eastmond, Whitney Houston, Troy Taylor, Mervyn Warren
Engineer: Barry Eastmond, Tom "TK" Kidd, Joseph Magee, Tony Shepperd, Michael White, Frank Wolf
Mixing: Ray Bardani, Dave Reitzas, Tony Shepperd
Mastering: David Kutch
A&R: Joey Arbagey, Michelle George, Matthew Schwartz
Assistants: Steve Fisher, John Holmes, Jason Locklin, Nick Marshall, Roger Moody, Jeff Moses, Jack Odom, Zack Odom, Alex Reverberi, Marnie Riley, Anthony Ruotolo, Rob Skipworth, Matt Snedecor, Craig "Niteman" Taylor
Production coordination: Ivy Skoff
String engineer: Phil Magnotti
Vocal contractor: Sally Stevens
Programming: Troy Taylor
Drum programming: Scott Frankfurt, Mervyn Warren
Percussion programming: Scott Frankfurt, Mervyn Warren
Arrangers: Troy Taylor, Mervyn Warren
Choir arrangement: Mervyn Warren
String arrangements: Barry Eastmond, Mervyn Warren
Vocal arrangement: Gordon Chambers, Whitney Houston, Ezekiel Lewis, Troy Taylor
Creative director: Joe-Mama Nitzberg
Art direction: Richard Thomas Jennings
Design: Richard Thomas Jennings
Photography: Sante d'Orazio
Make-up: Roxanna Floy
Stylist: Timothy Snell
Hair stylist: Ellin La Var