Hey Santa

Hey Santa

"Hey Santa!" is a Christmas album recorded by Carnie & Wendy Wilson (SBK K2-27113). It was released in October 1993, and entered the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart on December 25, 1993. The album was the first album recorded by the Wilson sisters after the group Wilson Phillips went on hiatus.

The track listing for the album consists of 11 Christmas standards plus the original title track, "Hey Santa", written by Jack Kugell and Carnie & Wendy Wilson. SBK Records released one single to radio and retail. "Hey Santa", backed with "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", was issued on cassette single and on a green vinyl 45rpm, SBK S7-17648-A, and reached #22 on the Billboard Top Adult Contemporary chart. It also reached #1 on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart, often shown as #101 on the Hot 100 in Billboard reference books.

The album also features a Wilson family recording from 1977 of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" that features the Beach Boys on backing vocals and a wide range of Beach Boys band members' children, including Matthew & Adam Jardine, Hailey & Christian Love, and Jonah & Justyn Wilson.

The track listing for "Hey Santa":

1. Hey Santa!

2. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

3. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

4. Winter Wonderland

5. Little Drummer Boy

6. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

7. Jingle Bell Rock

8. Silver Bells

9. Christmas Medley: We Three Kings of Orient Are/Silent Night/The First Noel

10. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

The album was not a commercial success, although the single "Hey Santa!" still receives recurrent airplay during the Christmas holiday season. The album peaked at #116 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and reached #25 on the Top Holiday Albums chart.

"Hey Santa" was later reissued with the same content and a 2 page booklet without lyrics in 1999 with the catalog number 98289 by EMI/Capitol Special Markets on both CD and cassette. As of November, 2007, this version of "Hey Santa" is still available. In 2007, Carnie Wilson released a solo Christmas album, "Christmas With Carnie", that features new versions of many of the same songs.


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