The Christmas Album | ||||
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Studio album by Lynn Anderson | ||||
Released | 1971 | |||
Recorded | 1971 | |||
Genre | Holiday | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Glenn Sutton, Clive Davis | |||
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Allmusic | Link |
The Christmas Album is the name of a Holiday music album by Country music singer, Lynn Anderson, released in 1971.
This was Lynn Anderson's first Christmas music album. The album was released by Columbia Records, and was very successful. The album reached No. 13 on the "Billboard 200" in 1971 (her highest chart position on that chart), but it didn't chart on the "Top Country Albums" list, since Christmas albums were not counted as "country" by Billboard during this period.
The album, a mix of secular uptempo Christmas classics and new songs from several of the leading Nashville country music songwriters of the day was enormously popular and became a Christmas classic itself among country music and American popular music fans. The album's opening song "Ding-A-Ling the Christmas Bell" was released as a single and at one point considered as a possible Christmas cartoon special but the project never got off the ground.
The album was in print for a decade and in the 1990's was briefly released on CD with a new photo on the cover (the image shown above). This CD has frequently fetches extremely high sums when it appears up for auction on ebay and Amazon.com's web page for the CD includes over 60 five-star reviews from fans pleading for the CD's re-release [1], which to date has not happened.
Anderson would later release a second Christmas album in 2002Home for the Holidays, a project reportedly inspired by the ebay frenzy for her earlier Holiday album.