Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas Explained

Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas
Type:	Album
Artist:	Ella Fitzgerald
Cover:	ellafitzgeraldschristmas.jpg
Released:	November 1967
Recorded:	July 17–18, 1967
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	27:27
Label:	Capitol
Producer:	Dave Dexter Jr.
Prev Title:	Brighten the Corner
Prev Year:	1967
Next Title:	30 by Ella
Next Year:	1968

Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas is a 1967 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald. It was her second and last Christmas album. Unlike Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas, her previous Christmas album which was entirely secular, this album consists only of religious Christmas songs. It was her second album for Capitol Records. It charted at #27 on Billboards Holiday Albums chart.^[1]

Track listing

For the 1967 LP on Capitol Records; Capitol ST ST 2805; re-issued in 2000 on CD, Capitol 7243 5 27674 2 7

Side One:

1. "O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight) – 1:47
2. "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (Edmund Hamilton Sears, Richard Storrs Willis) – 3:21
3. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) – 1:49
4. "Away in a Manger" (Traditional) – 2:12
5. "Joy to the World" (Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) – 1:40
6. "The First Noel" (William B. Sandys) – 1:50
7. "Silent Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr) – 2:52

Side Two:

1. "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade) – 2:45
2. "Sleep, My Little Jesus" – 2:17
3. "Angels We Have Heard on High" (Traditional) – 1:45
4. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillip Brooks, Lewis H. Redner) – 2:10
5. "We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins Jr.) – 2:07
6. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Traditional) – 1:27

Personnel

Performance

• Ella Fitzgerald – vocal
• Ralph Carmichael – conductor
• Robert Black, Grace Price - arrangers
• Ralph Carmichael's Chorus And Orchestra

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic.