Because It's Christmas

Because It's Christmas
Studio album by Barry Manilow
Released September 25, 1990
Genre Pop
Easy listening
Length 42:35
Label Arista
Producer Barry Manilow & Eddie Arkin[1]
Barry Manilow chronology
Live on Broadway
(1990)		 Because It's Christmas
(1990)		 Showstoppers
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[3]

Because It's Christmas is the first of three Christmas albums released by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was released in 1990 and was a huge success, becoming Manilow's first platinum album since 1984's 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe. It also began a period in Manilow's career in which he recorded cover albums. Each album would focus on a particular style of music. He continued this pattern until the release of Here at the Mayflower in 2001.

The version of "Jingle Bells" on the album is a cover of the 1943 recording by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters with the girl group Exposé taking the Andrews Sisters' part.

Because It's Christmas was the best-selling Christmas album of 1990 in the U.S. The album peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart,[4] and spent five weeks at number 1 on Billboard magazine's special, year-end, weekly Christmas Albums sales chart in December 1990 and January 1991.[4]

On July 19, 2002, Because It's Christmas was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million copies in the U.S.[5]

Track listing[1]

Side 1

  1. "The Christmas Song" - 3:54
  2. "Jingle Bells" (Duet with Exposé) - 2:39
  3. "Silent Night/I Guess There Ain't No Santa Claus" - 5:19
  4. "The First Noel/When The Meadow Was Bloomin'" - 5:01
  5. "Excerpt from Handel's Messiah/Because It's Christmas" - 5:28

Side 2

  1. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (Duet with K.T. Oslin) - 5:19
  2. "White Christmas" - 1:32
  3. "Carol Of The Bells/The Bells Of Christmas" - 4:48
  4. "Joy To The World/Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" - 3:46
  5. "We Wish You A Merry Christmas/It's Just Another New Year's Eve" - 4:47

References

  1. 1 2 CD packaging
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ Entertainment Weekly review
  4. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2004). Christmas in the Charts (1920-2004). Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 163. ISBN 0-89820-161-6.
  5. ↑ "RIAA Searchable Database - Gold & Platinum Certifications". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
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