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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:
TitleComposerTime
1Have Yourself a Merry Little ChristmasMartin, Blane3:31
2I've Got My Love to Keep Me WarmBerlin4:01
3Please Come Home for ChristmasBrown, Redd3:30
4When You Wish Upon a StarHarline, Washington3:44
5I'll Be Home for ChristmasRam, Gannon, Kent4:04
6There's Still My JoyChapman, Manchester, Rollings, Catchings, Davidson, Hungate, Miskulin, Mock, Wilkinson4:15
7White ChristmasBerlin3:38
8Christmas AngelManchester, Sager4:09
9Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)Torme, Wells4:04
10Christmas Time Is HereGuaraldi, Mendelson3:43
11Cradle in BethlehemStock, Bryan3:11

Releases:
YearTypeLabel
1998CDAngel
1997CDCapitol
2007CDKoch



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