This Is Christmas (album)

Infobox Album
Name = This Is Christmas
Type = studio
Artist = Luther Vandross


Released = October 18 1995 (U.S.)
Recorded = Camel Island Studios
(Los Angeles, California)
Clinton Recording Studios
(New York City, New York)
Sterling Sound
(New York City, New York)
The Hit Factory
(New York City, New York)
The Power Station
(New York City, New York)
Genre = R&B, soul, Christmas
Length = 48:21
Label = Epic
Producer = Luther Vandross (also executive), Marcus Miller, Nat Adderley, Jr.
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://wm05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0pfqxquhldse link]
Last album = "Songs"
(1994)
This album = "This Is Christmas"
(1995)
Next album = "Greatest Hits 1981–1995"
(1996)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = "Home for Christmas" cover

"This Is Christmas" is a Christmas album (eleventh overall) by American R&B/soul singer Luther Vandross, released in October 1995 (see 1995 in music). Sony Music Special Products reissued the album on January 15 2002 as "Home for Christmas" with an altered order of tracks.

Track listing

#"With a Christmas Heart" (Luther Vandross, Skip Anderson) – 4:04
#"This Is Christmas" (Vandross, Reed Vertelney) – 4:45
#"The Mistletoe Jam (Everybody Kiss Somebody)" (Vandross, Ivan Hampden) – 4:45
#"Every Year, Every Christmas" (Vandross, Richard Marx) – 5:06
#"My Favorite Things" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 5:58
#"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) – 5:05
#"I Listen to the Bells" (with Darlene Love) (Vandross, Fonzi Thornton) – 6:07
#"Please Come Home for Christmas" (Vandross, Anderson) – 3:37
#"A Kiss for Christmas" (Vandross, Hampden) – 4:12
#"O' Come All Ye Faithful" (John Francis Wade, Frederick Oakeley) – 4:19

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