My Kind of Christmas (song) explained

My Kind of Christmas
Artist:Johnny Mathis
Released:November 1961
Recorded:1961
Genre:Easy listening, Christmas music
Label:Fontana (U.K.); Columbia (U.S.)
Composer:Jerry Livingston
Lyricist:Paul Francis Webster

"My Kind of Christmas" is a 1961 song by Johnny Mathis written by Jerry Livingston with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.[1] [2] It was released as a standalone Christmas single in November 1961, with the Allyn Ferguson/Syd Shaw composition "Christmas Eve" on the B-side. When Mathis' 1958 Merry Christmas album was re-reissued on CD in 1998 the A- and B-sides of the 1961 single were included as bonus tracks.

Notes and References

  1. Philip Furia American Song Lyricists, 1920-1960 Gale Group, 2002 p.449 & p.455
  2. Ken Bloom American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion, Volume 1 Schirmer Books, 1 Jan 1996 p.1460 & p.1962