The Christmas Album (Air Supply album)
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The Christmas Album is the tenth studio album by Australian soft rock band Air Supply
released in 1987. The album features recordings of classic Christmas songs plus the original songs, "Love Is All" and "Eyes of a Child".
Air Supply
Air Supply is an Australian soft rock duo, consisting of Graham Russell as guitarist and singer-songwriter and Russell Hitchcock as lead vocalist. They had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight Top Ten hits in the United States, in the early 1980s...
released in 1987. The album features recordings of classic Christmas songs plus the original songs, "Love Is All" and "Eyes of a Child".
Track listing
- "White ChristmasWhite Christmas (song)"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.Accounts vary as...
" (Berlin) - 3:25 - "The First NoelThe First NoëlThe First Nowell is a traditional classical English carol, most likely from the 18th century, although possibly earlier...
" (Sandys) - 3:23 - "The Little Drummer Boy" (Davis, Onorati, Simeone) - 3:07
- "The Eyes of a Child" (Bloom, Russell) - 4:33
- "Silent NightSilent 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...
" (Gruber, Mohr) - 3:08 - "The Christmas SongThe 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...
" (Torme, Wells) - 3:01 - "Sleigh RideSleigh 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,...
" (Anderson, Parish) - 2:23 - "Love Is All" (Russell) - 4:33
- "Winter WonderlandWinter 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:...
" (Bernard, Smith) - 2:35 - "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Oakeley, Wade) - 3:14