Christmas Spirit (Richard Marx album)

Christmas Spirit
Studio album by Richard Marx
Released October 22, 2012
Recorded Ocean Way Soundstage, Blackbird Studios, Renegade Studio
Genre Christmas music, Holiday, Seasonal
Length 51:54 standard
64:42 Target edition
Label Zanzibar Records, TourDeForce Productions
Producer Richard Marx
Richard Marx chronology

A Night Out With Friends
(2012)		 Christmas Spirit
(2012)		 Seven & Seven
(2012)
Singles from Christmas Spirit
  1. "Christmas Spirit"
    Released: November 2011
  2. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
    Released: October 18, 2012
  3. "Little Drummer Boy"
    Released: October 27, 2012
  4. "Christmas Mornings"
    Released: November 3, 2012
  5. "O Holy Night"
    Released: December 2012

Christmas Spirit is a Christmas/Holiday seasonal release album by Richard Marx, released in October 2012. Five tracks of the album previously appeared on his 2011 release, The Christmas EP. It reached #181 on the Billboard album chart and got as high as #21 on Billboard's Christmas Albums chart. Two of its new tracks became Top 20 Adult Contemporary hits.[1] The version of I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day is based on Casting Crowns' arrangement of the song from their Peace on Earth album.The album yielded five singles, including Christmas Spirit, Santa Claus is Coming To Town, The Little Drummer Boy, Christmas Mornings and O Holy Night. The album features duets with Kenny Loggins, Sara Watkins and Sara Niemietz

Track listing

  1. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells)
  2. "Christmas Spirit" (Marx, Fee Waybill)
  3. "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/Mark Hall/Dale Oliver/Bernie Herms)
  4. "Let There Be Peace On Earth" (duet with Kenny Loggins) (Jill Miller, Sy Miller)
  5. "O Come All Ye Faithful" (unknown)
  6. "Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Kennicott Davis/Harry Simeone/Henry Onorati)
  7. "O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam, Placide Cappeau)
  8. "What Child Is This" (William Chatterton Dix)
  9. "Silent Night" (duet with Sara Watkins) (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr)
  10. "Christmas Mornings" (Marx, Dave Grusin)
  11. "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (duet with Sara Niemietz) (John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie)
  12. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin)
  13. "Alleluia" (Larry Gatlin)

Bonus tracks

  1. "Blue Christmas" (Billy Hayes/Jay W. Johnson)
  2. "Silver Bells" (Jay Livingston/Ray Evans)
  3. "Jingle Bell Rock" (Joe Beal/Jim Boothe)
  4. "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin)

Chart performance

Year Chart Position
2012 The Billboard 200 Albums Chart 181

Album credits

Miscellaneous

Album was dedicated to grandmother Lois Guildoo and mother-in-law Edna Rhodes

References

  1. ↑ "Richard Marx Christmas Spirit". Awards. AllMusic. Retrieved 18 February 2013.

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