A Christmas Gift of Love explained

A Christmas Gift of Love
Type:	studio
Artist:	Barry Manilow
Cover:	Barryxmas.jpg
Recorded:	April, August, September 2002
Studio:	Capitol Studios (Hollywood, California) Schnee Studios (North Hollywood, California) The Hop (Sherman Oaks, California)
Genre:	Pop Easy listening Christmas
Length:	30:33
Label:	Columbia
Producer:	Barry Manilow Robbie Buchanan
Prev Title:	Ultimate Manilow
Prev Year:	2002
Next Title:	2 Nights Live!
Next Year:	2004

A Christmas Gift of Love is the second Christmas-themed album by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow released in 2002. The album went Gold in the United States. It was done with Columbia Records instead of his usual label of Concord Records. However, as part of the agreement with Concord, the logo of both labels appear on this release.

Personnel

• Barry Manilow – vocals
• Robbie Buchanan – keyboards
• Michael Lang – acoustic piano
• Ken Berry – guitars
• Dean Parks – guitars
• John Pisano – guitars
• Michael Thompson – guitars
• Chuck Berghofer – bass
• Gregg Field – drums
• David Low – orchestra contractor
• Bruce Dukov – concertmaster
• Terry Woodson – music copyist

Production

• Garry C. Kief – executive producer
• Jay Landers – executive producer
• Barry Manilow – producer
• Robbie Buchanan – producer
• Bill Schnee – recording, mixing
• Scott Erickson – engineer, production coordinator
• Toby Foster – assistant engineer
• Steve Genewick – assistant engineer
• Charlie Paakkari – assistant engineer
• Ryan Petrie – assistant mix engineer
• Jay Anista – studio assistant
• Will Donovan – studio assistant
• James Goforth – studio assistant
• Bruce Monical – studio assistant
• Robert Hadley – mastering
• Doug Sax – mastering
• The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California) – mastering location