A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra

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A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra is a Christmas themed studio album, released in September 1957, by Frank Sinatra. It is the seventeenth album in Sinatra's discography. Some of the tracks were recorded with The Ralph Brewer Singers. This album was Sinatra's second collaboration on a full album with arranger Gordon Jenkins.

This Capitol compilation, dubbed "The Sinatra Christmas Album," released in 1987, featured all the tracks of the original A Jolly Christmas as well as other holiday-themed singles Sinatra released during his Capitol years.

Track listing

 * 1) "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont) – 2:00
 * 2) "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 3:28
 * 3) "Mistletoe and Holly" (Hank Sanicola, Frank Sinatra, Doc Stanford) – 2:18
 * 4) "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram) – 3:11
 * 5) "The Christmas Waltz" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:03
 * 6) "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) – 3:29
 * 7) "The First Noel" (William B. Sandys) – 2:44
 * 8) "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) – 2:24
 * 9) "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Lewis H. Redner, Phillip Brooks) – 2:06
 * 10) "Adeste Fideles (O, Come All Ye Faithful)" (John Francis Wade) – 2:34
 * 11) "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis) – 2:51
 * 12) "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr) – 2:31
 * CD bonus tracks
 * 1) "White Christmas" (1954 single version) (Irving Berlin) – 2:37
 * 2) "The Christmas Waltz" (1954 single version) (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:01

Singles
The first single of A Jolly Christmas, one of "The Christmas Waltz" and "White Christmas," was released in 1954. "The Christmas Waltz" was later released along with "Mistletoe and Holly" in a 1957 single.

Reception
Allmusic gave the album an average score of three out of five stars, being one of the lowest scores given to Sinatra Capitol album. Coupled with Sinatra controversy on his singing of Christmas and holiday-themed songs, Jim Smith of Allmusic claimed that Sinatra's performance on the record was a "a distant, even slightly lackadaisical performance"

A Jolly Christmas peaked at #18 on the Billboard 200 charts of 1958.