Christmas in My Heart (Connie Francis album)

Christmas In My Heart
Studio album by Connie Francis
Released November 1959
Recorded August 23, 26, and 27, 1959
Genre Christmas music
Length 42:05
Label MGM Records
E-3792 (mono)/SE-3792 (stereo)
Producer Arnold Maxin
Connie Francis chronology
Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites (1959) Christmas In My Heart (1959) Connie's Greatest Hits (1959)

Christmas In My Heart is a studio album of Christmas music recorded by U. S. Entertainer Connie Francis. The album features popular songs of the season on the A-side and the sacred music of Christmas on the B-side.[1]

Christmas In My Heart was recorded between in August 1959 at EMI's famous Abbey Road Studios in London[2] under the musical direction of Geoff Love[3] and was released in November 1959.[4]

The album was repackaged with a new cover design and re-released in October 1962. Another repackaging and re-release followed in November 1966; this time the album was also retitled Connie's Christmas and received a new catalogue number: E-4399 for mono pressings and SE-4399 for stereo pressings.[5]

Contents

Track listing

Side A

# Title Songwriter Length
1. "White Christmas" Irving Berlin 3.24
2. "Winter Wonderland" Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith 2.41
3. "The Christmas Song" Mel Tormé, Robert Wells 3.23
4. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram 3.35
5. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" traditional 5.18
6. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin 4.30

Side B

# Title Songwriter Length
1. "Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful)" traditional 3.06
2. "The Lord's Prayer" traditional 2.56
3. "Silent Night! Holy Night!" traditional 3.52
4. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" traditional 2.57
5. "The First Noël" traditional 3.10
6. "Ave Maria" traditional, Charles Gounod, Johann Sebastian Bach 2.50

References

  1. ^ Liner notes by Connie Francis on the cover of the original vinyl album
  2. ^ Ron Roberts: Connie Francis Discography 1955 – 1975,
  3. ^ William Ruhlmann: Connie Francis 1955 – 1959, supplement to 5 CD Boxed Set White Sox, Pink Lipstick… and Stupid Cupid, Bear Family Records BCD 16 616 EI, Hambergen (Germany) 1993
  4. ^ Connie Francis: Souvenirs, Booklet of 4-CD-Box, Polydor 1996, Cat.-No. 314 533 382-2
  5. ^ as above
Connie Francis
U. S. albums
Who's Sorry Now?  • The Exciting Connie Francis  • My Thanks To You  • Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites  • Christmas In My Heart  • Connie's Greatest Hits  • Rock 'n' Roll Million Sellers  • Country & Western - Golden Hits  • Connie Francis sings Fun Songs For Children  • One For The Boys  • Connie Francis sings Spanish And Latin American Favorites  • Connie Francis sings Jewish Favorites  • Songs to a Swinging Band  • More Greatest Hits  • Connie Francis sings "Never on Sunday"  • Connie Francis sings Folk Song Favorites  • Connie Francis sings Irish Favorites  • Connie Francis sings Modern Italian Hits  • Connie Francis sings Award Winning Motion Picture Hits  • Greatest American Waltzes  • In The Summer Of His Years  • Connie Francis sings German Favorites  • Connie Francis and Hank Williams, Jr. sing Great Country Favorites  • Movie Greats Of The 60s  • Connie's Christmas  • Connie Francis and The Kids Next Door  • Love, Italian Style  • Happiness - Connie Francis On Broadway Today  • Grandes Exitos del Cine de los Años 60  • Connie & Clyde – Hit Songs of the 30s  • Connie Francis sings Bacharach & David  • Connie Francis sings The Songs of Les Reed
International albums
U. S. singles
Who's Sorry Now?  • Stupid Cupid/Carolina Moon  • Fallin'/Happy Days and Lonely Nights  • I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)  • My Happiness  • You Always Hurt the One You Love  • If I Didn't Care  • Lipstick on Your Collar  • Among My Souvenirs/God Bless America  • Mama  • Everybody's Somebody's Fool  • My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own/Malagueña  • Where the Boys Are  • Breakin' in a Brand New Broken Heart/Someone Else's Boy  • Together  • When the Boy in Your Arms (Is the Boy in Your Heart)  • Don't Break the Heart That Loves You  • Vacation  • He Thinks I Still Care  • I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter/Al di là  • If My Pillow Could Talk  • In the Summer of His Years  • Be Anything (but Be Mine)  • Jealous Heart  • Love Is Me, Love Is You  • So Nice (Summer Samba)  • My Heart Cries for You  • Lonely Again  • I Don't Wanna Play House
International singles
Notable songs
Filmography
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