The Best of Amy Grant - The Christmas Collection

~ Release by Amy Grant (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Annotation

20th Century Masters

Tracklist

1CD
#TitleLength
1Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas2:37
2It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year2:27
3Joy to the World / For Unto Us a Child Is Born
choir vocals:
American Boychoir
orchestra:
London Studio Orchestra
conductor:
Ronn Huff
choir vocals arranger:
Ronn Huff
orchestrator:
Ronn Huff
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Amy Grant Productions (in 1992, in 2007)
medley including a partial recording of:
Joy to the World (Christmas carol)
lyricist:
Isaac Watts
additional composer:
Lowell Mason (in 1839)
composer:
George Frideric Handel
medley including a partial recording of:
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I, no. 12. For unto us a child is born (Goossens-Beecham Edition)
composer:
George Frideric Handel
arranger:
Sir Thomas Beecham and Sir Eugene Goossens
arrangement of:
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I, no. 12. Chorus “For unto us a Child is born”
part of:
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I (Goossens-Beecham Edition)
2:33
4Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)
piano:
Shane Keister
synthesizer:
Carl Marsh
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Amy Grant Productions (in 1992, in 2007)
recording of:
Breath of Heaven (Mary’s Song)
writer:
Chris Eaton and Amy Grant
5:30
5O Come All Ye Faithful
guitar:
Phil Keaggy
choir vocals:
American Boychoir
conductor:
Ronn Huff
vocals arranger:
Ronn Huff
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Amy Grant Productions (in 1992, in 2007)
recording of:
O Come, All Ye Faithful (English version of Latin “Adeste fideles”)
lyricist and composer:
John Francis Wade (from 1740 until 1743)
translator:
Frederick Oakeley (in 1841)
arrangement of:
O Come, All Ye Faithful
translated version of:
Adeste fideles (original latin version)
3:01
6Grown-Up Christmas List
guitar:
Tom Hemby
keyboard:
Robbie Buchanan
orchestra:
London Studio Orchestra
orchestrator:
Alan Moore
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Amy Grant Productions (in 1992, in 2007)
recording of:
Grown Up Christmas List (Amy Grant version) (in 1992)
additional lyricist:
Amy Grant
lyricist:
Linda Thompson Jenner
composer:
David Foster
version of:
Grown‐Up Christmas List (original version)
5:04
7Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree2:08
8Winter Wonderland2:17
9I'll Be Home for Christmas3:28
10Night Before Christmas3:52
11Emmanuel, God With Us
keyboard:
Shane Keister, Carl Marsh and Blair Masters
piano and background vocals:
Chris Eaton
choir vocals:
American Boychoir
chorus master:
Ronn Huff
choir vocals arranger:
Ronn Huff
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Amy Grant Productions (in 1992, in 2007)
recording of:
Emmanuel, God With Us
writer:
Chris Eaton, Amy Grant and Robert Marshall
4:57
12Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (instrumental)
producer:
Brown Bannister
guitar:
Tom Hemby
keyboard and synthesizer:
Carl Marsh
violin:
Mark O’Connor
orchestra:
London Studio Orchestra
arranger and orchestrator:
Carl Marsh
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Amy Grant Productions (in 1992, in 2007)
recording of:
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (orch. Stokowski)
orchestrator:
Leopold Stokowski
lyricist:
Robert Bridges
composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
translated version of:
Kantate, BWV 147 „Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben“: Teil II, X. Choral „Jesus bleibet meine Freude“ (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring)
recording of:
Kantate, BWV 147 “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben”: Teil II, X. Choral “Jesus bleibet meine Freude” (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; catch‐all for arrangements and unknown orchestrations)
composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
arrangement of:
Kantate, BWV 147 „Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben“: Teil II, X. Choral „Jesus bleibet meine Freude“ (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring)
4:48

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Release group

part of:20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection (order: 5)