Limited red vinyl LP pressing including extra song not available on CD version: "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". Merry Christmas is the first Christmas album, and the fourth studio album, by Mariah Carey. Released by Columbia Records on November 1, 1994, the album features cover versions of popular Christmas tunes and original material. Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote all of the original tracks, as well as producing Carey's interpretations of the covered material. The album produced the worldwide classic single, "All I Want for Christmas Is You". Merry Christmas has sold 15 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time.
A couple of missteps aside, Mariah Carey's co-penned "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a well-crafted Phil Spector tribute, with Beach Boys-style harmonies, jangling bells, and sleigh-ride pace, injecting one of the few bits of exuberant fun in this Christmas album. [A 2015 LP re-release added a bonus track in "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."] ~ Roch Parisien
Personnel: Mariah Carey (vocals); Dann Huff (guitar); Lenny Pickett (saxophone); Loris Holland (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Greg Phillinganes (piano); Walter Afanasieff (Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, synthesizer, bass, tambourine, claps, programming); Randy Jackson, Kirk Lyons (bass); Buddy Williams, Bernard Davis, Omar Hakim (drums); Dave Silliman (percussion); Gary Cirimelli, Dan Shea, Robert Clivilles, David Cole (programming); Melonie Daniels, Shanrae Price, Kelly Price, Cindy Mizzelle (background vocals).
Recorded at the Hit Factory, New York.
- Format: Vinyl
- Released: 10/23/2015
- Genre: Christmas / Holiday
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Tracklist
| Silent Night | 3:41 |
| All I Want For Christmas Is You | 4:01 |
| O Holy Night | 4:27 |
| Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) | 2:35 |
| Miss You Most (At Christmas Time) | 4:33 |
| Joy To The World | 4:20 |
| Jesus Born On This Day | 3:43 |
| Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town | 3:24 |
| Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) | 3:01 |
| Jesus Oh What A Wonderful Child | 4:29 |
| God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen | 1:18 |
