Songs from Call Me Claus
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Songs from Call Me Claus is a reissue of Garth Brooks and the Magic of Christmas
Garth Brooks and the Magic of Christmas
Garth Brooks and the Magic of Christmas is the twelfth studio album, and second holiday album, by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on November 23, 1999, peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 chart , and #1 on the Top Country Albums chart...

, second Christmas album by American country music artist Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...

, and was released on September 25, 2001. The songs exclusive to this release are "Call Me Claus," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and "'Zat You, Santa Claus?".

Track listing

  1. "Call Me Claus" (Garth Brooks
    Garth Brooks
    Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...

    , Lisa Sanderson, Jenny Yates) – 2:08
  2. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
    It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
    "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is a popular Christmas song written in 1963 by Edward Pola and George Wyle. It was recorded and released that year by pop singer Andy Williams for his first Christmas album, The Andy Williams Christmas Album...

    " (Edward Pola, George Wyle) – 2:57
  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
    Ralph Blane was an American composer, lyricist, and performer.-Life and career:Born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Blane was the son of grocery store owners. He attended Tulsa Central High School...

    , 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...

    ) – 4:05
  4. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...

    , Jule Styne
    Jule Styne
    Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...

    ) – 2:07
  5. "Winter Wonderland
    Winter Wonderland
    "Winter Wonderland" is a winter song, popularly treated as a Christmastime pop standard, written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith . Through the decades it has been recorded by over 150 different artists.-History:...

    " (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) – 3:34
  6. "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (Larry Bastian, Gordon Kennedy
    Gordon Kennedy (musician)
    Gordon Kennedy is a multi Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer, world-class guitarist and visionary at the forefront of Nashville’s music community....

    , Wayne Kirkpatrick
    Wayne Kirkpatrick
    Wayne Kirkpatrick is an American singer/songwriter and musician born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 1979....

    ) – 3:00
  7. "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
    Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...

    , Robert Wells) – 3:25
  8. "Baby Jesus Is Born" (Randy Handley, Cam King) – 3:59
  9. "Sleigh Ride
    Sleigh Ride
    "Sleigh Ride" is a popular light orchestral piece composed by Leroy Anderson. The composer had the original idea for the piece during a heat wave in July 1946; he finished the work in February 1948. Lyrics, about a person who would like to ride in a sleigh on a winter's day with another person,...

    " (Leroy Anderson
    Leroy Anderson
    Leroy Anderson was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler...

    , Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish was an American lyricist.-Early life:Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old...

    ) – 3:27
  10. "Silver Bells" (Ray Evans
    Ray Evans
    Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...

    , Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....

    ) – 3:35
  11. "(There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays
    Home for the Holidays (song)
    " Home for the Holidays" is a popular song, commonly associated with the Christmas season although the lyrics are more applicable to the Thanksgiving holidays....

    " (Robert Allen, Al Stillman
    Al Stillman
    Al Stillman was an American lyricist.-Biography:Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman, but changed it to that of a well-known New York banking family. He was Jewish. He attended New York University. After graduation, he contributed to Franklin P...

    ) – 2:19
  12. "'Zat You, Santa Claus?" (James Fox) – 2:33
  13. "The Wise Man's Journey" [instrumental] (Bobby Wood) – 1:28
  14. "O Little Town of Bethlehem
    O Little Town of Bethlehem
    "O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol. The text was written by Phillips Brooks , an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. He was inspired by visiting the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in 1865. Three years later, he wrote the poem for his...

    " (Phillips Brooks
    Phillips Brooks
    Phillips Brooks was an American clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. In the Episcopal liturgical calendar he is remembered on January 23...

    , Lewis H. Redner) – 3:00

Chart performance

Songs from Call Me Claus peaked at 99 on the U.S. 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...

, and peaked at #8 on Top Country Albums.

Charts

Charts (2001) Peak
position
U.S. 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...

99
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 8

Singles

Year Single US Country
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

2002 "Call Me Claus" 55
"'Zat You, Santa Claus?" 55

Personnel

  • Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
  • Chris Leuzinger - electric guitar
  • The Nashville String Machine - strings
  • Jeff Bailey, Ernie Collins, Mark Douthit, Chris Dunn, Robert Green, Michael Haynes, Don *Jackson, Sam Levine, Chris McDonald, Douglas Moffet, Steve Patrick, Denis Solee, George Tidwell - horns
  • Blair Masters - Hammond B-3 organ
  • Bobby Wood - keyboards
  • Mike Chapman - bass
  • Milton Sledge - drums
  • Sam Bacco - percussion
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