The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs Explained

The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs
Type:Compilation
Artist:Boney M.
Cover:Boney M. - The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs.jpg
Released:November 1986
Recorded:1981, 1984, 1986
Genre:R&B, Christmas, Euro disco
Length:56:23
Label:Hansa Records (EU)
Producer:Frank Farian
Prev Title:The Best of 10 Years – 32 Superhits
Prev Year:1986
Next Title:Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88
Next Year:1988

The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs is a compilation/remix album by Boney M. In 1986 producer Frank Farian took the master tapes from 1981's Christmas Album, added six recordings by Liz Mitchell, Reggie Tsiboe and two session singers from 1984, remixed them and created Die 20 schönsten Weihnachtslieder der Welt, internationally released as The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs. The 1986 version of the Boney M. Christmas album has since been re-issued as The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World (1992), A Wonderful Christmas Time (1998) and Christmas Party (1998 and 2003).

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Christmas Medley ("Silent Night, Holy Night" / "Snow Falls Over the Ground" / "Hear Ye the Message" / "Sweet Bells") (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr, Farian, Jay) - 7:51
    • Full-length version including the previously unreleased "Sweet Bells". Features Amy & Elaine Goff singing the first verse of "Silent Night, Holy Night" in German - instead of Liz Mitchell singing the first verse in English.
  2. "Oh Christmas Tree" ("O Tannenbaum") (Ernst Anschütz, Farian) - 2:54
  3. "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley, Farian) - 3:03
  4. "Zion's Daughter" (George Frideric Handel, Traditional, Farian, Jay, Rulofs) - 3:50
  5. "The First Noel" (Traditional) - 3:03
  6. "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" (John Francis Wade, Farian) - 3:41
  7. "Petit Papa Noël" (Martinet, Vincy) - 1:41
  8. "Darkness Is Falling" (Jay, Rulofs) - 3:02

Side B

  1. "Joy to the World" (Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) - 2:32
  2. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 3:21
    • Edited version
  3. "Jingle Bells" (James Lord Pierpont, Farian) - 3:28
  4. "Feliz Navidad" (José Feliciano) - 2:21
  5. "When a Child Is Born" (Jay, Zacar) - 3:19
  6. "Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) - 4:21
  7. "Mary's Boy Child - Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian) - 5:09
    • Edited version
  8. "Auld Lang Syne" (Robert Burns, Traditional) - 2:34

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