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Melissa Manchester
Joy
Release Date: 1998
Label: Angel

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, Redd	3:30
4	When You Wish Upon a Star	Harline, Washington	3:44
5	I'll Be Home for Christmas	Ram, Gannon, Kent	4:04
6	There's Still My Joy	Chapman, Manchester, Rollings, Catchings, Davidson, Hungate, Miskulin, Mock, 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	Guaraldi, Mendelson	3:43
11	Cradle in Bethlehem	Stock, Bryan	3:11