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#"[[Little Drummer Boy]]" (Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) - 4:21 |
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#"[[Mary's Boy Child]] / Oh My Lord" ([[Jester Hairston]], Farian) - 5:09 |
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#"[[Auld Lang Syne]]" ([[William Burns]], Traditional) - 2:34 |
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Revision as of 08:07, 15 July 2007
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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 The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs (original German title Die 20 schönsten Weihnachtslieder der Welt). The 1986 version of the Boney M. Christmas album has since been re-packaged and re-issued as The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World (1992), A Wonderful Christmas Time (1997), Happy Christmas (1998) and Christmas Party (2003).
Track listing
Side A
- "Christmas Medley ("Silent Night, Holy Night" / "Snow Falls Over the Ground" / "Hear Ye the Message" / "Sweet Bells") (Traditional, Farian, Jay) - 7:51
- "Oh Christmas Tree" (Traditional, Farian) - 2:54
- "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley, Farian) - 3:03
- "Zion's Daughter" (George Frideric Handel, Traditional, Farian, Jay, Rulofs) - 3:50
- "The First Noel" (William Sandys) - 3:03
- "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" (Traditional, Farian) - 3:41
- "Petit Papa Noël" (Martinet, Vincy) - 1:41
- "Darkness Is Falling" (Jay, Rulofs) - 3:02
Side B
- "Joy to the World" (Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) - 2:32
- "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 3:21
- "Jingle Bells" (James Lord Pierpont, Farian) - 3:28
- "Feliz Navidad" (José Feliciano) - 2:21
- "When a Child is Born" (Jay, Rulofs) - 3:19
- "Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) - 4:21
- "Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian) - 5:09
- Edited version
- "Auld Lang Syne" (William Burns, Traditional) - 2:34
Personnel
- Liz Mitchell - lead vocals, backing vocals
- Marcia Barrett - backing vocals (track B7)
- Frank Farian - lead vocals, backing vocals
- Reggie Tsiboe - lead vocals, backing vocals (tracks A2, A3, A5, A6, B1, B8)
- The London Christmas Choir - choir
- The London Philharmonic Orchestra - orchestra
Production
- Frank Farian - producer