The Sinatra Christmas Album

{{Album | name       = The Sinatra Christmas Album | artist     = Frank Sinatra | released   = October 25, 1994 | recorded   = 1963-1975 | discs      = 1 | tracks     = 13 | length     = 38:17 | label      = Reprise | producer   = Voyle Gilmore | code       =  | review1    = 3 / 5

| rev1name   = [[wikipedia:Allmusic|Allmusic]]

| art2       = [[File:A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra (2001).jpg|200px|2001 CD version]]

| art3       = [[File:The Christmas Collection.png|200px|2009 release of The Christmas Collection]]

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''"The Sinatra Christmas Album" redirects here; for other studio albums, see the A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra|1987 retitled album]]

'''''The Sinatra Christnas Album''''' 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]].

While the album itself wasn't re-released in 2009, a separate holiday-themed compilation was released. This Capitol compilation, dubbed "The Christmas Collection," 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. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane)
2. "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" (with Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians) (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn)
3. "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (with Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians)(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johnny Marks)
4. "The Little Drummer Boy" (with Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians) (Katherine K. Davis)
5. "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (with Bing Crosby & Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians) (Traditional, John Wesley Work III)
6. "We Wish You the Merriest" (with Bing Crosby & Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians) (Les Brown)
7. "Whatever Happened to Christmas?" (with the Jimmy Joyce Singers & Orchestra under the direction of Nelson Riddle) (Jimmy Webb)
8. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (with Tina, Nancy & Frank Sinatra Jr. and the Jimmy Joyce Singers & Orchestra under the direction of Nelson Riddle) (Traditional, Van Heusen, Cahn)
9. "The Bells of Christmas (Greensleeves) (with Tina, Nancy & Frank Sinatra Jr. and the Jimmy Joyce Singers & Orchestra under the direction of Nelson Riddle) (Traditional, Van Heusen, Cahn)
10. "I Wouldn't Trade Christmas" (with Tina, Nancy & Frank Sinatra Jr. and the Jimmy Joyce Singers & Orchestra under the direction of Nelson Riddle) (Van Heusen, Cahn)
11. "The Christmas Waltz" (Jule Styne, Cahn)
12. "A Baby Just Like You" (John Denver, Joe Henry)
13. "Christmas Memories" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergamn, Don Costa)

== 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"<ref name="allmusic">[http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-jolly-christmas-from-frank-sinatra-r67977 Allmusic review]</ref>

''A Jolly Christmas'' peaked at #18 on the Billboard 200 charts of 1958.<ref name="charts">http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-jolly-christmas-from-frank-sinatra-r67977/charts-awards</ref>

== Personnel ==

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|- |Marlene Bergman |Design |- |Phillip Brooks |Composer |- |Kim Gannon |Composer |- |Franz Gruber |Composer |- |Gordon Jenkins |Conductor, Orchestration |- |Walter Kent |Composer |- |Felix Mendelssohn |Composer |- |Joseph Mohr |Composer |- |Bob Norberg |Digital Remastering |- |Frederick Oakeley |Composer |- |James Pierpont |Composer |- |Buck Ram |Composer |- |John Reading |Composer |- |Lewis Redner |Composer |- |Nelson Riddle |Arranger, Conductor, Orchestration |- |William Sandys |Composer |- |Henry W. Sanicola, Jr. |Composer |- |Edmund Hamilton Sears |Composer |- |Frank Sinatra |Composer, Vocals |- |Don Stanford |Composer |- |Mel Tormé |Composer |- |Traditional |Composer |- |Pete Welding |Liner Note Compilation, Liner Notes |- |Robert Wells |Composer |- |Charles Wesley |Composer |- |Richard Storrs Willis |Composer |}

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The Christmas Collection.png|Album cover of ''The Christmas Collection''.

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== References ==

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