Christmas (Rockapella album)

Christmas

Studio album by Rockapella

Released

October 24, 2000

Genre

A Cappella

Length

36:14

Label

J-Bird Records
Shakariki Records

Producer

Scott Leonard

Rockapella chronology

2
(2000)

Christmas
(2000)

In Concert
(2001)

Christmas is the eleventh overall, sixth North American, and third holiday album released by the a cappella group Rockapella. It was re-released on Shakariki Records in 2004. The album wasn't released in Japan until 2001 on Rentrak Records and has a different tracklist and different artwork.

Track listings

The US and Japanese editions differ on multiple songs regarding who is given credit. To illustrate this, the writing credits are shown below as they appear on each respective album.

US Edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day"	Traditional	1:45
2.	"The Hope We Hold"	Scott Leonard	3:14
3.	"Glow Worm / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"	Paul Lincke & Johnny Mercer, Lilla Cayley Robinson (additional lyrics by Mel Tormé) / Meredith Willson	2:41
4.	"Silver Bells"	Jay Livingston, Ray Evans	3:00
5.	"Christmas Without You"	Scott Leonard	3:38
6.	"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"	(not included in list of song credits)	2:39
7.	"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"	Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin	3:35
8.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith	2:43
9.	"The Christmas Song"	Robert Wells, Mel Tormé	3:30
10.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	2:42
11.	"Hold Out For Christmas"	Scott Leonard	3:34
12.	"You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"	Albert Hague, Theodor Seuss Geisel	3:14

Christmas (Japan Edition)

Studio album by Rockapella
Released	November 30, 2001
Genre	A Cappella
Label	Rentrak Records
Producer	Scott Leonard

Japan Edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)
1.	"Silver Bells"	Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
2.	"I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day"	John Baptiste, Henry Longfellow
3.	"The Hope We Hold"	Scott Leonard
4.	"Glow Worm / It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas"	Johnny Mercer, Lilla Cayley Robinson, Mel Tormé, Paul Lincke / Meredith Wilson
5.	"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"	Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin
6.	"Winter Wonderland"	Richard Smith, Felix Bernard
7.	"The Christmas Song"	Robert Wells, Mel Tormé
8.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin
9.	"Christmas Without You"	Scott Leonard
10.	"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"	Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots
11.	"You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"	Albert Hague, Theodor Seuss Geisel
12.	"Hold Out For Christmas"	Scott Leonard

Personnel

Scott Leonard – high tenor
Kevin Wright – tenor
Elliott Kerman – baritone
Barry Carl – bass
Jeff Thacher – vocal percussion

Special Appearances

Natalie Leonard - "The Hope We Hold"

Rockapella

Scott Leonard Jeff Thacher Steven Dorian Calvin Jones Ryan Chappelle Sean Altman Elliott Kerman Steve Keyes David Stix Charlie Evett Barry Carl Kevin Wright John K. Brown George Baldi III

Studio albums	To N.Y. (1992) From N.Y. (1992) Vocobeat (1994) Primer (1995) Lucky Seven (1996) Rockapella (1997) Don't Tell Me You Do (1999) 2 (2000) Smilin' (2002) Bang (2010) Motown & More (2013)

Live albums	In Concert (2001) Live in Japan (2004)

Holiday albums	Bash! (1992) Out Cold (1994) Christmas (2000) Comfort & Joy (2002) A Rockapella Holiday (2011)

Compilation albums	Best Fest (1995) More Than Ever (2002) Best A Cappella (2002)

Solo albums	Dance Classics Altered House Vol. 1 Male Vocal Compilation (1991 The OGs featuring Scott Leonard) My Favorites: The Bee Gees (1996 Leonard) SeanDEMOnium (1997 Altman) Bluespeel (1999 Leonard - Flying Faders) Alt.mania (2002 Altman) Nice Kitty (2002 Leonard - fi-Ling Fader) The SoLow Project (2004 Carl) Losing Streak (2005 Altman) Glory (2005 GrooveBarbers) Unorthodox (2006 What I Like About Jew) 1man1mike (2007 Leonard) Taller Than Jesus (2008 JEWMONGOUS) Tokyo Robots (2010 Leonard) Guts (2010 GrooveBarbers) bOOmbOOm (2010 Brown) Unplugged (2011 Brown) A "Just Play It" Christmas (2013 Brown) Warning: Barbershop! (2014 GrooveBarbers)

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