A Christmas Album (Barbra Streisand album)

Infobox Album
Name = A Christmas Album
Type = studio
Artist = Barbra Streisand


Released = Start date|1967|10
Recorded = June 1966 at Olympia Sound Studios in London; 9–16 September 1967 in Los Angeles, California
Genre = Pop
Length = 33:40
Label = Columbia
Producer = Jack Gold
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wc06.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0nfqxqygldfe~T1 link]
Last album = "Simply Streisand"
(1967)
This album = "A Christmas Album"
(1967)
Next album = "What About Today?"
(1969)

"A Christmas Album" (1967) is the first Christmas album released by Barbra Streisand. The album is one of Streisand's best selling albums and is ranked as one of the best selling Christmas albums of all time. The album was the number 1 holiday album of the year and has been certified as 5x Platinum by the RIAA. The cover photograph was taken on 16 June 1967 during the rehearsal for her concert, "A Happening in Central Park".

Track listing

ide one

#"Jingle Bells?" (James Pierpont) – 1:58
#*New adaptation by Jack Gold and Marty Paich
#"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 3:14
#"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) – 4:00
#"White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 3:08
#"My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 3:09
#"The Best Gift" (Lan O'Kun) – 3:11

ide two

#"Sleep in Heavenly Peace (Silent Night) (Franz Gruber) – 3:07
#"Gounod's Ave Maria (Charles Gounod) – 3:26
#"O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillips Brooks, Lewis Redner) – 2:58
#*New adaptation by Jack Gold
#"I Wonder as I Wander (John Jacob Niles) – 3:18
#"The Lord's Prayer (Albert Hay Malotte) – 2:43

Personnel

*Barbra Streisand – singer
*Marty Paich – arranger, conductor
*Jack Gold – producer
*Rafael O. Valentin – recording engineer
*Jack Lattig – recording engineer