Faith: A Holiday Album
Faith: A Holiday Album is the second holiday album by saxophonist Kenny G. It was released by Arista Records in 1999, and peaked at number 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, number 4 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, number 5 on the Internet Albums chart and number 6 on the Billboard 200.[1] The album also received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Instrumental Album.
Faith: A Holiday Album was also the best-selling holiday album of 1999 in the United States according to sales figures from Nielsen/SoundScan, with total sales of 1,575,000 copies that year.[2] As of December 5, 2008, the album has accumulated total sales of 2,742,000 copies in the U.S. according to SoundScan.[3]
On November 5, 2002, Faith: A Holiday Album was certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of three million copies in the U.S.[4]
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Track listing
- "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" - 3:08
- "The First Noel" - 3:08
- "I'll Be Home For Christmas" - 3:33
- "Sleigh Ride" - 3:48
- "The Christmas Song" - 4:02
- "Medley: We Three Kings/Carol Of The Bells" - 4:07
- "O Christmas Tree" - 2:39
- "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" - 3:52
- "Eternal Light (A Chanukah Song)" - 2:53
- "Ave Maria" - 4:30
- "Auld Lang Syne" - 4:56
- "Auld Lang Syne: The Millennium Mix" - 7:53
Bonus track
"Voice" - 7:53
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The Millenium Mix
Auld Lang Syne: The Millenium Mix consisted of Kenny playing the song on the saxophone while historical sound clips were played over the recording. The clips followed a rough chronological order, beginning with Thomas Edison's invention of recordable sound to the year of the song's release. The clips focused on American, and to a lesser extent, British history. The song included six clips from baseball and at least six clips from American television programs. Kenny performed this version of the song live on January 1, 2000, in Times Square.
A few years later a similar version of the song was produced to include the September 11 attacks.
The clips included in the recording:
- "Today, frightened investors ordered their brokers to sell at whatever the price and the stock market crashed." (October 29, 1929)
- "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first inaugural address (March 4, 1933)
- "This is Bob 'Command Performance' Hope telling each Nazi that's in Russia today that Crimea doesn't pay." - Bob Hope
- "President Franklin D. Roosevelt stricken late today..." - Reporter on the death of Roosevelt (April 12, 1945)
- Who's on First? routine by Abbott and Costello
- "Well then who's on first?" - Costello
- "Yes." - Abbott
- "I mean the fellow's name." - Costello
- "Who." - Abbott
- "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima" - Harry Truman (August 1945)
- "Who is on first!" - Abbott
- "Now what are you asking me for?" - Costello
- "Reports from the new Germany tell of horrors leading to the total extermination of the Jews of Europe." (1945)
- "...fade away." - MacArthur
- "There was a little cocker spaniel dog. And our little girl, Tricia, the six year old, named it 'Checkers.'" - Richard Nixon (September 23, 1952)
- "Or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" - McCarthy
- "I'd like to thank all, all the wonderful folks, and I'd like to thank you, too." - Elvis Presley
- "Three young singers were killed today in the crash of a light plane." (February 3, 1959)
- "...wondering how and why, Marilyn Monroe died." (August 5, 1962)
- "Something has happened in the motorcade route." - Dallas reporter (November 22, 1963)
- "I have today ordered to Vietnam the Airmobile Division. Additional forces will be needed later and they will be sent." - Lyndon Johnson (July 29, 1965)
- "Senator Kennedy has been shot! Is that possible?" - Andrew West (June 5, 1968)
- "As he said many times in many parts of this nation, 'Some men s-see things as they are and say "Why?" I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"'" - Ted Kennedy eulogising his brother by paraphrasing George Bernard Shaw (June 8, 1968)
- "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong first setting foot on the Moon during Apollo 11 (July 21, 1969)
- "Four persons including two women were shot and killed in Ohio today. Hundreds of students were involved as National Guard..." (May 4, 1970)
- "There's a drive into left center field. That ball is gonna be, out of here! It's gone! It's 715! There's a new home run champion of all time and it's Henry Aaron!" - Milo Hamilton (April 8, 1974)
- "I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow." - Richard Nixon (August 8, 1974)
- "...an absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon." - Gerald Ford (September 8, 1974)
- "My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm running for President." - Jimmy Carter in his acceptance speech at the 1976 Democratic National Convention (July 15, 1976)[12]
- 1988 vice presidential debate (October 5, 1988)
- "Hundreds of Berliners from East and West standing atop the Wall, with chisels and hammers..." - George H. W. Bush (1989)
- "We, the jury, in the above entitled action, find the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder, a felony upon Nicole Brown Simpson, a human being..." - Deidre Robertson, clerk to Lance Ito, reading the verdict of the O. J. Simpson murder case (October 3, 1995)
- "Let the word go forth from this time and place, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans." - John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address (January 20, 1961)
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