Merry Christmas Strait to You!
1986 studio album by George Strait
Merry Christmas Strait to You! | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Studio album by George Strait | ||||
Released | September 8, 1986 (1986-09-08) | |||
Studio | Sound Stage Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
Genre | Country, Christmas | |||
Length | 26:38 | |||
Label | MCA | |||
Producer |
| |||
George Strait chronology | ||||
|
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Merry Christmas Strait to You! is the first Christmas album by American country music artist George Strait, released on September 8, 1986 by MCA Records. It reached #17 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and is certified double platinum by the RIAA.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | "White Christmas" | Irving Berlin | 3:03 |
2. | "There's a New Kid in Town" | Don Cook, Curly Putman, Keith Whitley | 4:27 |
3. | "Winter Wonderland" | Felix Bernard, Richard Bernhard Smith | 2:23 |
4. | "Merry Christmas Strait to You" | Bob Kelly | 2:40 |
5. | "Away in a Manger" | James R. Murray | 2:44 |
6. | "For Christ's Sake, It's Christmas" | Hank Cochran, Dean Dillon | 3:13 |
7. | "Frosty the Snowman" | Walter E. Rollins, Steve Nelson | 2:18 |
8. | "When It's Christmas Time in Texas" | Benny McArthur | 3:09 |
9. | "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" | John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie | 2:12 |
10. | "What a Merry Christmas This Could Be" | Cochran, Harlan Howard | 3:05 |
Total length: | 26:38[1] |
Personnel
- George Strait – lead vocals
- John Barlow Jarvis – acoustic piano
- Billy Joe Walker Jr. – acoustic guitars
- Larry Byrom – electric guitars
- Reggie Young – electric guitar
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar
- David Hungate – bass guitar
- Eddie Bayers – drums
- Johnny Gimble – fiddle
- Curtis Young – backing vocals
Production
- Jimmy Bowen – producer
- George Strait – producer
- Bob Bullock – recording, overdub recording, mixing
- Steve Tillisch – overdub recording
- Mark J. Coddington – second engineer
- Tim Kish – second engineer
- Russ Martin – second engineer
- Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Simon Levy – art direction
- Tal Howard – design
- Mike Drake – illustration
- Peter Nash – photography
- Erv Woolsey – management
Chart positions
Chart (1986) | Peak position |
---|---|
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 17 |
References
- ^ a b Merry Christmas Strait to You! at AllMusic
- v
- t
- e
- Mike Daily - Gene Elders - Terry Hale - Wes Hightower - Ron Huckaby
- Bobby Jarzombek - Joe Manuel - Benny McArthur - Rick McRae - Marty Slayton - John Michael Whitby
- Strait Country
- Strait from the Heart
- Right or Wrong
- Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind
- Something Special
- #7
- Ocean Front Property
- If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin'
- Beyond the Blue Neon
- Livin' It Up
- Chill of an Early Fall
- Holding My Own
- Pure Country
- Easy Come Easy Go
- Lead On
- Blue Clear Sky
- Carrying Your Love with Me
- One Step at a Time
- Always Never the Same
- George Strait
- The Road Less Traveled
- Honkytonkville
- Somewhere Down in Texas
- It Just Comes Natural
- Troubadour
- Twang
- Here for a Good Time
- Love Is Everything
- Cold Beer Conversation
- Honky Tonk Time Machine
- Cowboys and Dreamers
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits Volume Two
- Ten Strait Hits
- Strait Out of the Box
- Latest Greatest Straitest Hits
- 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of George Strait
- 20th Century Masters – The Christmas Collection: The Best of George Strait
- 50 Number Ones
- 22 More Hits
- Icon
- Icon 2
- Strait Out of the Box: Part 2
- Merry Christmas Strait to You!
- Merry Christmas Wherever You Are
- Fresh Cut Christmas
- Classic Christmas
- For the Last Time: Live from the Astrodome
- Live at Texas Stadium
- The Cowboy Rides Away: Live from AT&T Stadium