My Kind of Christmas is the first Christmas album

Christmas Album

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 by American recording artist Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera

Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...

. It was released on October 24, 2000.

Background

While "The Christmas Song" was recorded during her debut album sessions, all of the other songs from My Kind of Christmas were recorded while Aguilera was on tour in mid-late 2000. The album was recorded at the same time as Aguilera was recording her Spanish

Spanish language

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-language album Mi Reflejo

Mi Reflejo

Mi Reflejo is the first Spanish-language studio album by American pop singer Christina Aguilera. It was released on September 12, 2000. Most of the album was produced by Rudy Pérez and includes Spanish versions of five songs from her debut album Christina Aguilera, as well as six new songs...

—the albums were released one month apart.

"Christmas Time" was shipped to radio in mid-November 2000 and served as the first (and only) single to be released off the album, though not receiving any video treatment. Ironically the track "Merry Christmas, Baby" entered the Billboard Hot Ringtones at number thirty-eight in December 2007. In addition, "Climb Ev'ry Mountain

Climb Ev'ry Mountain

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", from the film The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music

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, and which can be heard on her My Reflection

My Reflection

My Reflection is a concert DVD by Christina Aguilera, released in 2001. The concert early before being released on DVD was shown in a one-hour special on ABC in around Christmas time in 2000...

DVD, was recorded for "My Kind of Christmas" but the song remained absent when the physical release became available. The song has yet to be leaked through the internet, or through any other available source. "These Are the Special Times" is a cover of the title track from Celine Dion

Celine Dion

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's 1998 Christmas album These Are Special Times

These Are Special Times

These Are Special Times is a Christmas album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on October 30, 1998 through Epic subsidiary 550 Music...

.

Track listing

1. "Christmas Time" (Alex Alessandroni, Chaka Blackmon, Steven Brown, Ray Cham, Ron Fair
   Ron Fair
   Ron Fair is a veteran A&R executive, record producer arranger, recording engineer and songwriter. In a career that has spanned over 30 years at major record labels he has produced and arranged hits for several artists, but he is best known as a "guru/mentor", guiding the careers of unknown artists...
   
   ) – 4:02
2. "This Year" (Christina Aguilera, Lauren Christy
   Lauren Christy
   Lauren Christy is an English singer-songwriter and music producer.-Early life and education:Christy was born in London, England. She studied at the Bush Davies Ballet School as a child, before she decided to become a musical artist.-Music career:...
   
   , Graham Edwards, Charlie Midnight, Scott Spock) – 4:14
3. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
   "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original. The song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane...
   
   " (Ralph Blane
   Ralph Blane
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   , Hugh Martin
   Hugh Martin
   Hugh Martin was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St...
   
   ) – 4:03
4. "Angels We Have Heard on High
   Angels We Have Heard on High
   "Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol. The song commemorates the story of the birth of Jesus Christ found in the Gospel of Luke, in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child....
   
   " (featuring Eric Dawkins) (Traditional) – 4:11
5. "Merry Christmas, Baby
   Merry Christmas Baby
   "Merry Christmas Baby" is an R & B Christmas standard written by Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore. It has been covered by many artists including Otis Redding, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Hanson. The original 1947 version by Johnny Moore's Three Trailblazers "Merry Christmas Baby" is an R...
   
   " (featuring Dr. John
   Dr. John
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   ) (Lou Baxter, Johnny Moore
   Johnny Moore (musician)
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   ) – 5:44
6. "Oh Holy Night
   O Holy Night
   "O Holy Night" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by Placide Cappeau , a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem...
   
   " (Adolphe Adam
   Adolphe Adam
   Adolphe Charles Adam was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle and Le corsaire , his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau , Le toréador and Si j'étais roi , and his Christmas...
   
   , John Sullivan Dwight) – 4:52
7. "These Are the Special Times" (Diane Warren
   Diane Warren
   Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...
   
   ) – 4:31
8. "This Christmas" (Donny Hathaway
   Donny Hathaway
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   , Nadine McKinnor) – 4:01
9. "The Christmas Song
   The Christmas Song
   "The Christmas Song" is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by musician, composer, and vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...
   
   " (Mel Tormé
   Mel Tormé
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   , Robert Wells) – 4:25
10. "Xtina's Xmas" (Aguilera) – 1:32
11. "The Christmas Song
    The Christmas Song
    "The Christmas Song" is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by musician, composer, and vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...
    
    " (Holiday Remix) (Tormé, Wells) – 4:03

First version Bonus Track

12. "Silent Night

Silent Night

"Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...

 / Noche De Paz" (Traditional, Arranged By Christina Aguilera & Ron Fair) – 4:49

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	28
U.S. Billboard Holiday Albums	1
Chart (2011)	Peak position

Certifications

Credits and personnel

• Christina Aguilera — vocals
  Singing
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  , background vocals
• Alex Alessandroni — keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
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• BabyBoy — keyboard
• Wayne Bergeron
  Wayne Bergeron
  Wayne Bergeron, American jazz musician and trumpet player, was born in 1958 in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up Southern California. His interest in music started on the French Horn before he switched to, his claim to fame, the trumpet, in 8th grade...
  
   — trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Chuck Berghofer — bass
  Bass guitar
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• Larry Bunker — percussion
  Percussion instrument
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• Celebrity Voices Choir
• Pete Christlieb
  Pete Christlieb
  Pete Christlieb is a jazz bebop, West Coast jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist.-Biography:Christlieb was born in Los Angeles, California and is the son of bassoonist Don Christlieb...
  
   — saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Gene Cipriano — saxophone, woodwind
• Vinnie Colaiuta
  Vinnie Colaiuta
  Vincent Colaiuta is an American drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Republic, Pennsylvania, he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of 14...
  
   — drums
  Drum kit
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• Eric Dawkins — keyboard, vocals, background vocals
• Mario de Leon — violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Joel Derouin — violin
• Dr. John
  Dr. John
  Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...
  
   — piano
• Assa Drori — violin, concert master
• Stephen Erdody — cello
  Cello
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• Peter Erskine — drums
• Ron Fair — strings, conductor
• Kirstin Fife — violin
• Jerry Folsom — French horn
• Steve Forman — percussion
• Gary Foster — woodwind
• Matt Funes — viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  
• Armen Garabedian — violin
• Galina Golovin — violin
• Agnes Gottschewski — violin
• John Goux — guitar
  Guitar
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• Endre Granat
  Endre Granat
  Endre Granat,former Asst. Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra ,Concertmaster of the Goteborg Symphony.Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth International Competition,Recipient of the Ysaye Medal.Frequent participant of the Marlboro Festival and the Casals Festival.The former Fulbright scholar taught...
  
   — violin
• Mimi Granat — viola
• Scott Haupert — viola
• Oscar Hidalgo — contrabass
  Contrabass
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• Dan Higgins — saxophone, woodwind
• Lily Ho-Chen — violin
• Ashley Ingram — guitar
• Judy Johnson — cello
• Kim Johnson — background vocals
• Marni Johnson — French horn
• Tiffany Ju — violin
• Anne Karam — cello
• Roland Kato — viola
• Ray Kelley — cello
• Joe Ketendjian — violin
• Renita Koven — viola
• Johana Krejci — violin
• Gary Kuo — violin
• L.A. Mass Choir
• Timothy Landauer — cello
• Natalie Leggett — violin
• Kathleen Lenski — violin
• Sal Lozano — saxophone
• Norman Ludwin — contrabass
• Warren Luening — trumpet
• Earl Madison — cello
• Andy Martin — trombone
• The Matrix — bass, keyboard
• Alan Mautner — violin
• Myron McKinley — organ
  Organ (music)
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• Joe Meyer — French horn
• Miari — background vocals
• Frances Moore — violin
• Jorge Moraga — viola
• Carole Mukogawa — viola
• Sammy Nestico — horn conductor
• Jack Nimitz — woodwind
• Brian O'Connor — French horn
• Katia Popov — violin
• Barbara Porter — violin
• Billy Preston
  Billy Preston
  William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from...
  
   — organ, piano
• Tom Ranier — piano
• Susan Ranney — contrabass
• Robin Ross — viola
• Bob Sanov — violin
• Don Sebesky — conductor
• Don Shelton — woodwind
• Sheridon Stokes — woodwind
• Phil Teele — trombone
• Raymond Tischer — viola
• Cecilia Tsan — cello
• Mike Watts — celeste
  Celesta
  The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box . The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal plates suspended over wooden resonators...
  
  

Production

• Producers: Ron Fair, The Matrix
• Executive producer: Ron Fair
• Engineers: Brad Haehnel, The Matrix, Michael C. Ross, Sol Survivor
• Assistant engineers: Howard Karp, Chris Wonzer
• Mixing: Peter Mokran, Dave Pensado, Michael C. Ross
• Mastering: Eddy Schreyer
• Assistants: Chad Brown, Bobby Butler, Brian Dixon, Tony Flores, Paul Forgues, David Guerrero, Michael Huff, Ed Krautner, Charles Paakkari, Howard Risson, Chris Shepherd, Jason Stasium, Bradley Yost
• Directors: Eric Dawkins, Kim Johnson
• Session coordinator: Greg Cham
• Digital editing: Tal Herzberg
• Vocal recording: Michael C. Ross
• Programming: ChakDaddy, The Matrix, Sol Survivor
• Drum programming: BabyBoy, Sol Survivor, Mac Baby
• Arrangers: Ron Fair, The Matrix, Don Sebesky
• Horn arrangements: Jerry Hey, Sammy Nestico
• String arrangements: Ron Fair
• Vocal arrangement: ChakDaddy, Eric Dawkins, Ron Fair
• Orchestration: Don Sebesky
• Art direction: Brett Kilroe
• Design: Vivian Ng
• Photography: Norman Jean Roy