Country Christmas Classics

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Annotation

Copyright: ℗ 1998 BMG Entertainment

Annotation last modified on 2025-12-22 20:45 UTC.

Tracklist

1Digital Media
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Let It Snow! Let It Snow!Lorrie Morgan feat. New World Philharmonic2:34
2The KidClint Black3:20
3All My Love for Christmas
Lonestar2:20
4Winter Wonderland / Sleigh Ride – Medley
medley including a recording of:
Sleigh Ride
lyricist:
Mitchell Parish (in 1950)
composer:
Leroy Anderson (until 1948-02-10)
publisher:
EMI Harmonies Limited, EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated), EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd (not for release label use!) and Woodbury Music (aka Woodbury Music Company)
version of:
Sleigh Ride (original instrumental version)
medley including a recording of:
Winter Wonderland
lyricist:
Richard B. Smith (wrote lyrics to “Winter Wonderland”)
composer:
Felix Bernard
publisher:
Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc., EMI Music (do not use as release label! this is a music publisher), Francis, Day & Hunter, Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin), Warner Chappell Music Inc., Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty. Ltd., WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers43:41
5What Child Is This
recording engineer:
Julian King
producer:
John Anderson (US country music singer-songwriter) and James Stroud
assistant mixer:
Mark Hagen and John Hurley
mixer:
Lynn Peterzell
arranger:
Sir John Stainer
mixed at:
Loud Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
cover recording of:
What Child Is This?
lyricist:
William Chatterton Dix (in 1865)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 25608)
version of:
Greensleeves (generic entry for traditional and unknown arrangements)
John Anderson3:04
6Noel, Noel
Steve Wariner2:50
7Little Drummer Boy
cover recording of:
Carol of the Drum (aka “The Little Drummer Boy”)
lyricist and composer:
Katherine K. Davis (Katherine Kennicott Davis) (in 1941)
additional composer:
Henry Onorati (in 1958) and Harry Simeone (in 1958)
publisher:
EMI Mills Music (ASCAP-affiliated), International Korwin Corp., Warner Chappell, Warner Chappell Music (publisher as Warner/Chappell Music), Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. (in 1955) and Mills Music, Inc. (in 1964)
is based on:
Trad. (traditional Czech carol, became “Carol of the Drums”)
Restless Heart3:48
8Silent Night
cover recording of:
Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation)
lyricist:
Josef Mohr (in 1816)
composer:
Franz Xaver Gruber (in 1818)
translator:
John Freeman Young (in 1859)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 27088)
translated version of:
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
Mindy McCready3:46
9Away in a Manger
cover recording of:
Away in a Manger (Mueller variation)
additional lyricist:
Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (in 1892)
lyricist:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
composer:
Carl Mueller and James Ramsey Murray (in 1885)
Kenny Chesney2:56
10O Holy Night
producer:
Martina McBride and Paul Worley
editor:
Carlos Grier
acoustic guitar:
Biff Watson (American country producer and guitarist.)
bass guitar:
Joe Chemay
drums (drum set):
Shannon Forrest
percussion:
Sam Bacco
piano:
Jim Medlin and Matt Rollings (American composer, musician and record producer)
synthesizer:
Steve Nathan
background vocals:
James Ferguson (Christian Worship Artist), MaraBeth Jordan, Louis Nunley and Lisa Silver
conductor:
Dennis Burnside
recording of:
O Holy Night
lyricist:
John Sullivan Dwight (in 1855)
composer:
Adolphe Adam (French composer) (in 1847)
translated version of:
Cantique de Noël “Minuit chrétiens” (French original of “O Holy Night”)
cover recording of:
O Holy Night
lyricist:
John Sullivan Dwight (in 1855)
composer:
Adolphe Adam (French composer) (in 1847)
translated version of:
Cantique de Noël “Minuit chrétiens” (French original of “O Holy Night”)
Martina McBride43:45
11Christmas in Dixie
engineer:
Gene Rice
recorded at and mixed at:
Music Mill in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
recording of:
Christmas in Dixie (in 1982-07)
writer:
Jeff Cook (US country vocalist/guitarist/fiddler, member of Alabama), Teddy Gentry, Mark Herndon and Randy Owen
publisher:
Maypop Music (in 1982)
Alabama33:36