Christmas Time's A-Comin' (album) explained
Christmas Time's A-Comin' is an album of Christmas music released in late 1994 by American country music singer Sammy Kershaw. His first seasonal project, it comprises a mix of traditional songs and newly recorded material. The title track, a bluegrass holiday standard written by Benjamin "Tex" Logan, charted in 1995 and 1998 on the Billboard country charts, respectively reaching #50 and #53 in those years.
Track listing
- "We Three Kings (Part 1)" (John Henry Hopkins) – 0:53
- "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" (Tex Logan) – 3:17
- "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 4:23
- "Please Come Home for Christmas" (Charles Brown, Gene Redd) – 2:50
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) – 2:35
- "Frosty the Snowman" (Walter Rollins, Steve Nelson) – 2:47
- "Daddy Stuff" (Rock Killough) – 3:59
- "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) – 2:01
- "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (Troy Powers, Andy Stone) – 3:37
- "Christmas Won't Be Christmas (Without You Here)" (Steven D. Cohen, Rick Lagneaux) – 3:36
- "Up on the House Top" (Benjamin Hanby) - 2:26
- "We Three Kings (Part 2)" (Hopkins) – 0:57
Personnel
From liner notes.[1]
- Musicians
- Backing vocalists
- Tracks 3, 4, 7, 9: Kim Fleming, Jana King, Lisa Silver, Louis Nunley, Bergen White
- Tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11: Cindy Walker, Dennis Wilson, Curtis Young
- Technical
- Buddy Cannon and Norro Wilson - production
- Charles Cochran - string arrangement
- Ronnie Thomas - digital editing
- Bergen White - horn arrangement (track 4), vocal arrangement (tracks 3, 4, 7, 9)
- Hank Williams - mastering
Notes and References
- Christmas Time's A-Comin' . Sammy Kershaw . 1994 . CD insert . Mercury Records . 22638.