Christmas Memories
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Christmas Memories is the second Christmas album and 57th album by singer Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...

, released in 2001. The album reached Number 15 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart and has been certified as Platinum, her 28th platinum disk in America. Sales have now reached 1 million copies in The USA.

Track listing

  1. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon
    Kim Gannon
    James Kimball "Kim" Gannon was an American songwriter, more commonly a lyricist than a composer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York but grew up in New Jersey where he attended Montclair High School and was a member of The Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. He graduated from St...

    , Walter Kent
    Walter Kent
    Walter Kent was a Jewish American composer who wrote the music for songs including the Christmas standard "I'll Be Home for Christmas", and the wartime hit " The White Cliffs of Dover", co-written with fellow American Nat Burton. He died at the age of 82-External links:...

    , Buck Ram
    Buck Ram
    Buck Ram was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.-Biography:...

    ) – 4:12
  2. "A Christmas Love Song" (Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman is an American lyricist and songwriter.-Life & career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows...

    , Marilyn Bergman
    Marilyn Bergman
    Marilyn Bergman is a composer, songwriter and author.She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English at New York University...

    , Johnny Mandel
    Johnny Mandel
    Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.-Life:...

    ) – 3:57
  3. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (Frank Loesser
    Frank Loesser
    Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...

    ) – 3:54
  4. "I Remember" (Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...

    ) – 4:58
  5. "Snowbound" (Russell Faith, Clarence Kehner) – 2:59
  6. "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe" (Douglas Konecky, Justin Wilde) – 3:10
  7. "Christmas Lullaby" (Ann Hampton Callaway
    Ann Hampton Callaway
    Ann Hampton Callaway is a multiplatinum-selling singer, composer, lyricist, pianist, and actress. She is best known for writing and singing the theme to the TV series The Nanny, writing songs for Barbra Streisand and starring in the Broadway musical Swing!.-Career:Callaway was described by the New...

    ) – 3:30
  8. "Christmas Mem'ries" (Bergman, Bergman, Don Costa
    Don Costa
    Don Costa was an American pop music arranger and record producer, best known for his work with Frank Sinatra.-Career:...

    ) – 4:45
  9. "Grown-Up Christmas List
    Grown-Up Christmas List
    "Grown-Up Christmas List" is a Christmas song composed by David Foster and Linda Thompson-Jenner , and originally recorded by Foster for his 1990 non-holiday album River of Love. Though it was also released as a single, the song was not a hit upon its first appearance...

    " (David Foster
    David Foster
    David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...

    , Linda Thompson) – 3:29
  10. "Ave Maria
    Ellens dritter Gesang
    Ellens dritter Gesang , in English: "Ellen's Third Song", was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825 as part of his Opus 52, a setting of seven songs from Walter Scott's popular epic poem The Lady of the Lake, loosely translated into German.It has become one of Schubert's most popular works under the...

    " (Franz Schubert
    Franz Schubert
    Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

    ) – 4:42
  11. "Closer" (Dean Pitchford
    Dean Pitchford
    Dean Pitchford is an American songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more Golden Globes, seven Grammy Awards and two Tony Awards.-Early life:Pitchford was born in...

    , Tom Snow
    Tom Snow (songwriter)
    Thomas Righter Snow is an American songwriter.He wrote songs for Joe Cocker with , Selena , Olivia Newton-John , Melissa Manchester , The Pointer Sisters , Barbra Streisand, Rita Coolidge Thomas Righter Snow is an American songwriter.He wrote songs for Joe Cocker ("Even a Fool Would Let Go", "Love...

    ) – 3:58
  12. "One God" (Ervin Drake
    Ervin Drake
    Ervin Drake, born Ervin Maurice Druckman is an American songwriter whose works include such American Songbook standards as "It Was a Very Good Year". He has written in a variety of styles and his work has been recorded by musicians from all over the world in a multitude of styles...

    , Jimmy Shirl) – 3:39

Chart performance

Chart Peak
position
Certification Sales/shipments
US Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart 15 Platinum 1,800,000
US Billboard Top Catalogue Albums 2 Platinum 1,800,000
UK Album Chart 28
Top Canadian Albums 10

Awards

Streisand received her 37th Grammy award nomination, her seventh in the category for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album is an award presented to recording artists at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

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