The Animals' Christmas is the sixth solo album by vocalist Art Garfunkel

Art Garfunkel

Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel...

. It is a Christmas-themed album which also has Garfunkel teamed with Amy Grant

Amy Grant

Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...

. It was released in 1986.

Originally a concept album about the Nativity, written by Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He wrote numerous platinum selling classics, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"...

, Garfunkel was attracted to it because, as he put it, “It was born out of the love of a musical person to make music."

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He wrote numerous platinum selling classics, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"...

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1. "The Annunciation" – 2:38
2. "The Creatures of the Field" – 2:31
3. "Just a Simple Little Tune" – 2:54
4. "The Decree" – 3:25
5. "Incredible Phat" – 4:59
6. "The Friendly Beasts" – 3:24
7. "The Song of the Camels" – 2:46
8. "Word from an Old Spanish Carol" – 3:41
9. "Carol of the Birds" – 2:00
10. "The Frog" – 5:15
11. "Herod
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    " – 4:21
12. "Wild Geese" – 3:33

Personnel

• Art Garfunkel
  Art Garfunkel
  Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel...
  
   – producer, remixing, vocals
• Jimmy Webb
  Jimmy Webb
  Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He wrote numerous platinum selling classics, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"...
  
   – piano, producer
• Amy Grant
  Amy Grant
  Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...
  
   – vocals
• Christopher Austopchuk – art direction
• Stephen Bayly – vocals
• Stuart Breed – assistant engineer, remixing
• Greg Calbi – mastering
• Elizabeth Coatsworth – composer, text
• Del Costello – vocals
• Carl Davis – conductor
• Nicholas Dykes – vocals
• Anne Thaxter Eaton – compilation
• Geoff Emerick
  Geoff Emerick
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   – engineer, producer, remixing
• Steve Gadd
  Steve Gadd
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   – drums
• Gordon Gottlieb – percussion
• Nicole Graham – remixing
• Roy Halee
  Roy Halee
  Roy Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon and Garfunkel.Halee grew up on Long Island, New York. His father, also named Roy Halee, provided the singing voice for Mighty Mouse in late 1940s Terrytoons cartoons, as well as the voices of Heckle and Jeckle...
  
   – engineer
• Paul Halley – organ
• Michael Jenkins – choir director
• Jon Kelly – engineer
• London Symphony Orchestra
  London Symphony Orchestra
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   – orchestra
• Rob Mounsey
  Rob Mounsey
  Rob Mounsey is an award-winning composer, music producer, and musician. He was born in Berea, Ohio and grew up in Seattle, Washington and several Ohio towns. At the age of 17, he was awarded a BMI Student Composer's Award in New York. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1971 to 1975...
  
   – synthesizer
• Joe Osborn
  Joe Osborn
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   – bass
• Elliott Randall
  Elliott Randall
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   – electric guitar
• Eric Weissberg
  Eric Weissberg
  Eric Weissberg is an American banjo player, best known for the theme from the movie Deliverance.-Biography:Eric Weissberg went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, then the Juilliard School of Music. He joined an early version of the Greenbriar Boys , but left before they made any recordings....
  
  – banjo, acoustic guitar
• Wimbledon King's College Choir – choir, chorus
• George Young – saxophone