A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra

Infobox Album | Name = A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
Type = Album
Artist = Frank Sinatra


Released = September 1957
Recorded = July 10-May 1, 1957 Capitol Studio A, Hollywood
Genre = Classic pop
Length = 38:17 |
Label = Capitol Records
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5zknu3l5anxk link]
Last album = "Where Are You?"
(1957)
This album = "A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra"
(1957)
Next album = "Come Fly With Me"
(1957) |

"A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra" is a Christmas album by American singer Frank Sinatra, originally released by Capitol Records in 1957.

This was Sinatra's first full-length Christmas album. It features the Ralph Brewer Singers along with an orchestra conducted by Gordon Jenkins.

Capitol reissued the album in 1963 with different cover art and a new title, "The Sinatra Christmas Album", a title which also featured on the album's initial 1987 compact disc pressing. The original title and cover were eventually restored for subsequent pressings. In 2001, the album art was altered from its 1957 version.

Track listing

ide one

#"Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont) – 2:00
#"The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 3:28
#"Mistletoe and Holly" (Hank Sanicola, Frank Sinatra, Doc Stanford) – 2:18
#"I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram) – 3:11
#"The Christmas Waltz" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:03
#"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Blane, Ralph Martin) – 3:29

ide two

#"The First Noel" (William B. Sandys) – 2:44
#"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) – 2:24
#"O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Lewis H. Redner, Phillip Brooks) – 2:06
#"Adeste Fideles" ("O, Come All Ye Faithful") (John Francis Wade) – 2:34
#"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis) – 2:51
#"Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr) – 2:31
#: "CD reissue bonus tracks not included on the original LP release:"
#"White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 2:37
#"The Christmas Waltz" (alternate) – 3:01

(The Album artwork featured here is not the original album cover released in 1957 by Capitol Records)

Personnel

* Frank Sinatra - Vocals
* Gordon Jenkins - Arranger, Conductor