Because It's Christmas

Infobox Album
Name = Because It's Christmas
Type = Studio album
Artist = Barry Manilow


Released = 1990
Genre = Pop
Easy listening
Length = 42:35
Label = Arista Records
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9fexqq5ldke link]
Last album = "Live on Broadway"
(1990)
This album = "Because It's Christmas"
(1990)
Next album = "Showstoppers"
(1991)

"Because It's Christmas" is the first of three Christmas albums released by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was a huge success, becoming Manilow's first platinum album since 1984's "". It also began a period in Manilow's career in which he recorded cover albums. Each album would focus on a particular style of music. He continued this pattern until the release of "Here at the Mayflower" in 2001. The album was released in 1990.

This version of Jingle Bells is patterned after the 1943 Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters version with the girl group Exposé taking The Andrews Sisters' part.

Track listing

ide 1

#"The Christmas Song" - 3:54
#"Jingle Bells" (Duet with Exposé) - 2:39
#"Silent Night/I Guess There Ain't No Santa Claus" - 5:19
#"The First Noel/When The Meadow Was Bloomin'" - 5:01
#"Excerpt from Handel's Messiah/Because It's Christmas" - 5:28

ide 2

#"Baby, It's Cold Outside" (Duet with K.T. Oslin) - 5:19
#"White Christmas" - 1:32
#"Carol Of The Bells/The Bells Of Christmas" - 4:48
#"Joy To The World/Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" - 3:46
#"We Wish You A Merry Christmas/It's Just Another New Year's Eve" - 4:47