ANDY WILLIAMS - THE ANDY WILLIAMS CHRISTMAS ALBUM

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Take the cursor with the mouse and place in the beginning. Pegue o cursor com o mouse e coloque no começo. This is my 5º video for Christmas. I hope you enjoy. Este é o meu 5º vídeo para o Natal. Espero que gostem. The Andy Williams Christmas Album is the first Christmas holiday album released by singer Andy Williams. A number-one smash on the Billboard charts, it was issued by Columbia Records in 1963, and it would prove to be the first of eight Christmas albums released by Williams. Though it was also the album that introduced Williams' perennial holiday classic "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", Columbia instead opted to release Williams' cover of "White Christmas" as the album's promotional single at the time. A front-page story in Billboard magazine on Nov. 23, 1963, made clear the album was already destined to be a big hit, reporting: "Though the majority of retailers around the country that were contacted reported that Christmas product sales were just starting, they have already singled out the new 'Andy Williams Christmas Album' as the probably No. 1 LP for the next two months; at least of those albums thus far on the market. It is already registering heavy sales, as is his single 'White Christmas.'" From 1963 to 1973, Billboard published special weekly Christmas Albums and Christmas Singles sales charts. For all five weeks that these special charts were published in 1963 (for the weeks ending November 30, 1963 through December 28, 1963), The Andy Williams Christmas Album was the number one selling Christmas album, while Williams' cover of "White Christmas" was the number one selling Christmas single. The Andy Williams Christmas Album spent three weeks as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1964, and one week as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1965. It charted on Billboard's Christmas Albums chart at least one week for each of the years that the chart was published. By December 14, 1964, The Andy Williams Christmas Album had been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States. The album was reissued with a different cover in the UK in 1975 and was awarded Silver certification by the British Phonographic Industry in 1976 for selling 60,000 units. Platinum certification in the United States was awarded on November 21, 1986. Track listing Side one "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 2:29 "Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season" (Irving Berlin/Kay Thompson) – 2:38 "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 2:34 "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (Edward Pola, George Wyle) – 2:33 "A Song and a Christmas Tree (The Twelve Days of Christmas)" (traditional) – 3:57 "Kay Thompson's Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont, Kay Thompson) – 2:06 Side two "The First Noël" (traditional) – 3:08 "O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight) – 3:24 "Away in a Manger" (traditional) – 2:51 "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" (Robert MacGimsey) – 3:17 "The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) – 2:17 "Silent Night, Holy Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr) – 2:15 Song information Made in historical order "A Song And A Christmas Tree" began as "The Twelve Days of Christmas", which was first published in 1780. "Stille Nacht", which was later translated into "Silent Night", was first performed during Midnight Mass on Christmas in 1818 in Austria. "The First Noël" debuted in print in 1833. "O Holy Night", with music by Adolphe Adam, originated in French as "Cantique de Noël" in 1847. The song that came to be known as "Jingle Bells" was published under the name "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in 1857. And the earliest printing of the lyrics to "Away In A Manger" dates back to 1885. Of the songs on the album composed in the 20th century, "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" is the oldest, written on Christmas Eve, 1932. In the 1942 film Holiday Inn, Bing Crosby performed "White Christmas" and "Happy Holiday", with the former spending 11 weeks at the top of Billboard magazine's Best Seller chart that same year. Kay Thompson first performed her song "The Holiday Season" as well as her "Jingle Bells" variation on December 22, 1945. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)" was a number three hit for Nat King Cole's King Cole Trio when it was first issued in 1946. Personnel Andy Williams — vocals Robert Mersey — arranger (except as noted); producer Marty Paich — arranger ("Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season") Johnny Mandel — arranger ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", "Kay Thompson's Jingle Bells") George Wyle — arranger ("A Song and a Christmas Tree (The Twelve Days of Christmas)", "Silent Night, Holy Night")