Christmas at Our House

Christmas at Our House
Studio album by Barbara Mandrell
Released October 1984
Recorded July 1984 (Nashville, TN)[1]
Genre Christmas music, country pop
Length 37:13
Label MCA
Producer Tom Collins
Barbara Mandrell chronology

Meant for Each Other
(1984)		 Christmas at Our House
(1984)		 Greatest Hits
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

Christmas at Our House is the seventeenth studio album by the American country artist Barbara Mandrell. The album was released in October 1984 on MCA Records and was produced by Tom Collins. It was Mandrell's first album of Christmas music.

Background and content

Christmas at Our House, as described by Bradley Torreano of Allmusic, "shows the country star adding her name to the countless musicians who have released personalized Christmas albums." The album includes ten tracks of new material including some new material. It includes two tributes of the Christmas season, the title track and "From Our House to Yours", which Torreano described as "down home". It also includes cover versions of Christmas standards such as "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland"; it also introduced what would become a holiday standard, "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe (Our First Christmas)". Torreano gave the album three out of five stars staying, "Her brand of country-pop may not appeal to all fans of the genre, but many country listeners will probably find this a nice Christmas album to play for the holidays."[2]

Release

Christmas at Our House was Mandrell's third album released in 1984, officially issued in October. The album peaked at #31 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in 1984. No singles were released from the album and it was her first album not to reach the Billboard 200 albums chart since He Set My Life to Music in 1982.[3] Christmas at Our House was originally released as a vinyl LP record on MCA Records in 1984, with five songs on each side.[4] It was reissued as a compact disc on MCA many years later.[2]

Track listing

Side One
No. Title Length
1. "Christmas at Our House" (Archie Jordan, Don Pfrimmer) 2:52
2. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) 2:39
3. "This Time of the Year" (Jessie Hollis, Cliff Owens) 2:56
4. "Santa, Bring My Baby Home" (W.T. Davidson, R. Hatch) 3:08
5. "One Night A Year" (R.C. Bannon, John Bettis) 3:57
Side Two
No. Title Length
1. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Buck Ram, Kim Gannon, Walter Kent) 3:13
2. "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe (Our First Christmas)" (Doug Konecky, Justin Wilde) 3:13
3. "From Our House to Yours" (Lisa Angelle, John Schweers) 4:05
4. "Born to Die" (Shireen Salyer) 4:10
5. "The Christmas Story"   7:31

Personnel

Sales chart positions

Album
Chart (1984) Peak
position
[4]
U.S. Top Country Albums 31

References

  1. ↑ "Barbara mandrell Recording Sessions". Country Music.Blogspot. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Christmas at Our House > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  3. ↑ "Christmas at Our House > charts". Allmusic. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Christmas at Our House by Barbara Mandrell". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 12 January 2010.