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Melissa Manchester Joy Release Date: 1998 Label: Koch Records Anyone familiar with Manchester's early '80s oeuvre might imagine that her Christmas album would be an overly sentimental prospect. And that would be a pity, because Joy contained her most sensitive, understated performance in years. She controlled her tendency to belt and chose excellent material (mainly secular Hollywood material) that all listeners could relate to. Next to classics like "White Christmas," her own material fared surprisingly well -- it was her strongest for some time, and the five-piece ensemble arrangements are particularly tasteful, considering what an overcrowded, grandiose genre Christmas albums normally are. Charles Donovan, All Music Guide Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Martin, Blane 3:31 2 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Berlin 4:01 3 Please Come Home for Christmas Brown, Brown, Redd 3:30 4 When You Wish Upon a Star Washington, Harline 3:44 5 I'll Be Home for Christmas Ram, Kent, Gannon 4:04 6 There's Still My Joy Chapman, Catchings, Miskulin, Rollings, Davidson, Manchester, Mock, Hungate, Wilkinson 4:15 7 White Christmas Berlin 3:38 8 Christmas Angel Manchester, Sager 4:09 9 Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) Torme, Wells 4:04 10 Christmas Time Is Here Mendelson, Guaraldi 3:43 11 Cradle in Bethlehem Stock, Bryan 3:11 Releases: Year Type Label 2007 CD Koch Records 2001 CD EMI Angel

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