Raffi's Christmas Album
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Raffi's Christmas Album is a 1983 music album
Music Album
Music album is the name of:* Music Album , a 1970s Canadian television series* Album, a collection of music tracks...

 by children's entertainer Raffi
Raffi (musician)
Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC , better known by his stage name Raffi, is a Canadian-Armenian singer-songwriter, author, essayist and lecturer...

. The album was later remastered and re-released on October 22, 2002. The rerelease contains the additional track "A Child's Gift of Love".

Original Release (1983)

  1. "Frosty the Snowman
    Frosty the Snowman
    "Frosty the Snowman" is a popular song written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950. It was written after the success of Autry's recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" the previous year; Rollins and Nelson shipped the...

    " – 2:01
  2. "Up on the House-Top" (Traditional) – 1:57
  3. "On Christmas Morning" – 2:02
  4. "Petit Papa Noël" – 2:55
  5. "Jingle Bells
    Jingle Bells
    "Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857...

    " – 2:08
  6. "Medley: The First Noel/Deck the Halls" (Traditional) – 2:40
  7. "Every Little Wish" – 2:11
  8. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
    Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a fictional reindeer with a glowing red nose. He is popularly known as "Santa's 9th Reindeer" and, when depicted, is the lead reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve. The luminosity of his nose is so great that it illuminates the team's path through...

    " – 1:53
  9. "Must Be Santa" – 2:28
  10. "Douglas Mountain" – 1:45
  11. "Old Toy Trains" – 2:14
  12. "Christmas Time's A Comin'" – 1:45
  13. "Medley: 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...

    /Away in a Manger
    Away in a Manger
    "Away in a Manger" is a Christmas carol first published in 1885 in Philadelphia and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain it is one of the most popular carols, a 1996 Gallup Poll ranking it joint second.-History of the lyrics:...

    " – 2:29
  14. "There Was a Little Baby" (Traditional) – 0:38
  15. "We Wish You A Merry Christmas
    We Wish You a Merry Christmas
    "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a popular secular sixteenth-century English carol from the West Country of England. The origin of this Christmas carol lies in the English tradition where wealthy people of the community gave Christmas treats to the carolers on Christmas Eve such as 'figgy...

    " (Traditional) – 1:24

20th Anniversary Reissue (2002)

  1. "Frosty the Snowman" – 2:01
  2. "Up on the House-Top" (Traditional) – 1:57
  3. "On Christmas Morning" – 2:02
  4. "Petit Papa Noël" – 2:55
  5. "Jingle Bells" – 2:08
  6. "Medley: The First Noel/Deck the Halls" (Traditional) – 2:40
  7. "Every Little Wish" – 2:11
  8. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" – 1:53
  9. "Must Be Santa" – 2:28
  10. "Douglas Mountain" – 1:45
  11. "Old Toy Trains" – 2:14
  12. "Christmas Time's A Comin'" – 1:45
  13. "Medley: Silent Night/Away in a Manger" – 2:29
  14. "There Was a Little Baby" (Traditional) – 0:38
  15. Bonus Track : "A Child's Gift of Love" – 3:56
  16. "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" (Traditional) – 1:24

Musicians

  • Raffi
    Raffi (musician)
    Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC , better known by his stage name Raffi, is a Canadian-Armenian singer-songwriter, author, essayist and lecturer...

     – Guitar
  • Ken Whiteley – Acoustic Guitar, Autoharp, Mandolin, Glockenspiel, Lap Steel, Banjo, Accordion, Electric Guitar, Piano, Electric Piano, Tambourine
  • Chris Whiteley – Harmonica, Trumpet
  • Tom Szczesniak – Accordion, Table Hockey
  • Moe Koffman
    Moe Koffman
    Moe Koffman, OC was a Canadian jazz musician and composer. He played the flute, soprano, alto and tenor saxophone and clarinet...

     – Flute
  • Dennis Pendrith – Bass
  • "Bucky" Berger – Drums, Sleigh Bells
  • Patrick Godfrey – Piano (Side 1 #6,7)
  • Cathy Ambrose – Piano (Side 2 #7)
  • Graham Townsend – Fiddle
  • The Canadian Brass:
    • Charles Daellenbach
      Charles Daellenbach
      Charles "Chuck" Daellenbach is an American-Canadian tuba player. He is one of the founders of the Canadian Brass and remains the quintet's tuba player.-Early life and personal life:...

       – Tuba
    • Eugene Watts
      Gene Watts
      Gene Watts is an American-born trombonist and a founding member of the Canadian Brass, a brass quintet based in Canada, known worldwide for its virtuosic skill, broad range of musical fare, and humorous presentation style....

       – Trombone
    • Graeme Page – French Horn
    • Fred Mills
      Fred Mills (musician)
      Fred Mills was University of Georgia music professor from 1996–2009, and a 1992 Grammy nominee who made more than 40 records as a trumpeter with the Canadian Brass quintet from 1972-1996....

       – Trumpet
    • Ronald Romm – Trumpet, Flugelhorn
      Flugelhorn
      The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...

    • Arrangements for the Canadian Brass by Eric Robertson
  • Vocalists: Raffi, Ken Whiteley, Caitlin Hanford, Mose Scarlett, David Wall, Ben Stein
  • Firgrove Public School Choir Members (Under the guidance of Cathy Ambrose): Jacen Brathwaite, Chris Brown, Susan Dewkinandan, Denee Dunn, Monica Senior, Linda Prakash
  • Also Raffi's
    Raffi (musician)
    Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC , better known by his stage name Raffi, is a Canadian-Armenian singer-songwriter, author, essayist and lecturer...

    friends Lee Richards and Lindsay Roth
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