What a Night! A Christmas Album

Infobox Album
Name = What a Night!
A Christmas Album
Type = studio
Artist = Harry Connick, Jr.


Released = flagicon|US November 4, 2008
Recorded = 2008
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Label = Sony/Columbia (U.S.)
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Last album = "Oh, My NOLA"
(2007)
This album = "What a Night! A Christmas Album"
(2008)
Next album =
Misc = Singles
Name = What a Night! A Christmas Album
Type = studio
single 1 = Song for the Hopeful
single 1 date = October 7, 2008

"What a Night! A Christmas Album", by American singer, pianist and bandleader Harry Connick, Jr., is scheduled for release in Winter 2008. [ [http://www.amazon.com/What-Night-Christmas-Album-Connick/dp/B001EYGOHE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1221751584&sr=1-2 What a Night! A Christmas Album] , Amazon.com] It will be his third Christmas album, since 1993's "When My Heart Finds Christmas" and 2003's "Harry for the Holidays". Also this album consist of new recordings of Christmas classics, and new songs written by Connick. [ [http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=SONCD37020 Harry Connick, Jr/What a Night! A Christmas Album] , elusivedisc.com]

The first public mentioning of recording the album, came in an interview in The Times-Picayune in June 2008. [ [http://blog.nola.com/davewalker/2008/06/harry_connick_blog_take_w_audi.html Harry Connick Jr.'s new Lifetime movie raises money for breast cancer research] , The Times-Picayune, June 22, 2008]

The album was first called "Christmas Day", but the title was changed in September 2008, to "What a Night! A Christmas Album".

The track "Song for the Hopeful", is a duet with Kim Burrell. The song was written by Connick for the 2008 television film "Living Proof". [ [http://music.barnesandnoble.com/What-a-Night-A-Christmas-Album/Harry-Connick-Jr/e/886973702048/?itm=5 What a Night! A Christmas Album] , Barnes & Noble] Burell is also featured on "Let There Be Peace On Earth".

Connick has three daughters with his wife Jill Goodacre, and their middle daughter Sarah Kate, sings a duet with him on the track "Winter Wonderland". [http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/harry-connick-jr-celebrates-the,567043.shtml Harry Connick, Jr. Celebrates the Holidays With Seasonal Favorites and New Songs on 'What A Night! - A Christmas Album'] , The Earth Times, October 6, 2008]

When the track list was first announced, the songs "Christmas Time is Here" and "Trinity", was part of the album. In early October, those two tracks were replaced with three new tracks: "Christmas Day", "Auld Lang Syne", and an instrumental version of "Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairies".

Connick and his band is scheduled to begin A Holiday Celebration Tour in November 2008. One of their stops include the annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

Track listing

#"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (Edward Pola, George Wyle)
#"What A Night!" (Harry Connick, Jr.)
#"Christmas Day" (Connick)
#"Holly Jolly Christmas" (Johnny Marks)
#"Please Come Home for Christmas" (Charles Brown, Gene Redd)
#"O Come All Ye Faithful" (traditional)
#"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
#"Let There Be Peace On Earth" (Sy Miller, Jill Jackson) – feat. Kim Burrell
#"Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – feat. Sarah Kate Connick
#"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (Meredith Willson)
#"Santariffic" (Connick) – feat. Lucien Barbarin
#"Jingle Bells" (James Lord Pierpont)
#"Zat You Santa Claus" (Jack Fox)
#"We Three Kings" (Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr.)
#"Song for the Hopeful" (Connick) – feat. Kim Burrell
#"Auld Lang Syne" (traditional)

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"Christmas Time is Here"
#"Deck the Halls"
#"O Christmas Tree"
#Holiday interview with Harry
#Photo gallery
#"(It Must Have Been) Ol’ Santa Claus"
#"I Pray on Christmas"
#"The Happy Elf"

Tour

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concert_tour_name = A Holiday Celebration Tour


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last_tour = My New Orleans Tour
(2007-2008)
this_tour = A Holiday Celebration Tour
(2008)
next_tour = A Holiday Celebration Tour 2008, is a concert tour to support the album. The tour was confirmed by the official Harry Connick, Jr. website in September 2008.

Tour dates

References

External links

* [http://www.harryconnickjr.com/ Harry Connick, Jr.'s official website]
* [http://www.hconnickjr.com/ Harry Connick, Jr.'s official Sony BMG Music page]