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Christmas at Our House 
Studio album by Barbara Mandrell Released October 1984 Recorded July 1984 (Nashville, TN)[1] Genre Holiday, Country pop Length 37:13 Label MCA Producer Tom Collins Barbara Mandrell chronology Meant for Each Other
(1984)Christmas at Our House
(1984)Greatest Hits
(1985)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[2]Christmas at Our House is the seventeenth studio album by American country artist Barbara Mandrell. The album was released in October 1984 on MCA Records and was produced by Tom Collins. It was Mandrell's first album of Holiday music.
Contents
Background and content
Christmas at Our House, as described by Bradley Torreano of Allmusic, "shows the country star adding her name to the countless musicians who have released personalized Christmas albums." The album included ten tracks of new material including a selected amount of new material. It included two tributes of the Christmas season, the title track and "From Our House to Yours", which Torreano described as "down home". It also included a series of cover versions of Holiday standards such as, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland"; it also introduced what would become a holiday standard, "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe (Our First Christmas)". Torreano gave the album three out of five stars staying, "Her brand of country-pop may not appeal to all fans of the genre, but many country listeners will probably find this a nice Christmas album to play for the holidays."[2]
Release
Christmas at Our House was Mandrell's third album released in 1984, officially issued in October. The album peaked at #31 on the Billboard Magazine Top Country Albums chart in 1984. The album did not spawn any singles and was her first album not to reach the Billboard 200 albums chart since 1982's He Set My Life to Music.[3] Christmas at Our House was originally released on an LP album upon its release on MCA Records in 1984, with five songs included on each side of the record.[4] The album was reissued as a compact disc on MCA many years later.[2]
Track listing
Side One No. Title Length 1. "Christmas at Our House" (Archie Jordan, Don Pfrimmer) 2:52 2. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) 2:39 3. "This Time of the Year" (Jessie Hollis, Cliff Owens) 2:56 4. "Santa, Bring My Baby Home" (W.T. Davidson, R. Hatch) 3:08 5. "One Night A Year" (R.C. Bannon, John Bettis) 3:57 Side Two No. Title Length 1. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Buck Ram, Kim Gannon, Walter Kent) 3:13 2. "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe (Our First Christmas)" (Doug Konecky, Justin Wilde) 3:13 3. "From Our House to Yours" (Lisa Angelle, John Schweers) 4:05 4. "Born to Die" (Shireen Salyer) 4:10 5. "The Christmas Story" 7:31 Personnel
- Eddie Bayers – drums
- Pete Bordonali – acoustic guitar, guitar, electric guitar
- Thomas Brannon – background vocals
- David Briggs – piano, synthesizer
- Lori Brooks – background vocals
- James Capps – acoustic guitar
- Jimmy Capps – guitar, piano, synthesizer
- Phillip Forest – background vocals
- Sherilyn Huffman – background vocals
- David Hungate – bass
- John Jarvis – synthesizer
- Shane Keister – piano, synthesizer
- Barbara Mandrell – lead vocals
- Farrell Morris – percussion
- The Nashville Horn Works – horn
- Nashville String Machine – strings
- Louis Dean Nunley – background vocals
- Brent Rowan – electric guitar
- Lisa Silver – background vocals
- Diane Tidwell – background vocals
- Bergen White – arrangements, string arrangements
Sales chart positions
- Album
Chart (1984) Peak
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[4]U.S. Top Country Albums 31 References
- ^ "Barbara mandrell Recording Sessions". Country Music.Blogspot. http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2009/11/barbara-mandrell.html. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
- ^ a b c "Christmas at Our House > Overview". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r133099. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
- ^ "Christmas at Our House > charts". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r133099/charts-awards. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
- ^ a b "Christmas at Our House by Barbara Mandrell". Rate Your Music. http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/barbara_mandrell/christmas_at_our_house/. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
Categories:- 1984 Christmas albums
- Christmas albums by American artists
- Barbara Mandrell albums
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