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Encyclopedia > Classic Christmas
Classic Christmas
Classic Christmas cover
Album by Johnny Cash
Released 1980
Recorded August 19-20, 1980
Genre Country
Length 31:44
Label Columbia
Professional reviews
Johnny Cash chronology
Rockabilly Blues
(1980)
Classic Christmas
(1980)
The Baron
(1981)

Classic Christmas is a Christmas album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1980 (see 1980 in music). Unlike The Christmas Spirit or Family Christmas, none of the songs are originals; all are traditional Christmas songs. It is the third and final full-length Christmas album by Cash. An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... John R. (Johnny) Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an influential American country and rock music singer and songwriter. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... country music, see Country music (disambiguation) In popular music, country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, and old-time music that began... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: 3 out of 5 star. ... John R. (Johnny) Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an influential American country and rock music singer and songwriter. ... A Christmas song is a song which is normally sung during the time period leading up to, and sometimes shortly past, Christmas day, and usually has lyrical content addressing the holiday, the winter season, or both. ... country music, see Country music (disambiguation) In popular music, country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, and old-time music that began... John R. (Johnny) Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an influential American country and rock music singer and songwriter. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... See also: 1979 in music, other events of 1980, 1981 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January January 1 - Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II. The only other pop music acts to be created MBEs are the Beatles and...

Contents


Track listing

  1. "Joy to the World" (Lowell Mason/Isaac Watts) – 2:04
  2. "Away in a Manger" (William James Kirkpatrick/Traditional) – 3:05
  3. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillips Brooks/Lewis Redner) – 3:26
  4. "Silent Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber/Joseph Mohr) – 3:01
  5. "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (Edmund Sears/Richard Storrs Willis) – 3:37
  6. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn/Charles Wesley) – 2:29
  7. "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (Jean Baptiste Calkin/Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) – 2:19
  8. "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Frederick Oakeley/John Francis Wade) – 2:55
  9. "Little Gray Donkey" (Charles Tazewell/Roger Wagner) – 4:11
  10. "The Christmas Guest" (Grandpa Jones/Bill Walker) – 4:37

Joy to the World is one of the best-known and best-loved of Christmas carols. ... Portrait of Lowell Mason Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was a leading figure in American church music, the composer of over 1600 hymns, many of which are often sung today. ... Isaac Watts. ... Away in a Manger was first published in an 1885 Lutheran Sunday School book, by James R. Murray (March 7, 1841 - March 10, 1905), but the author of the first two stanzas is unknown. ... Philip Brooks, an episcopal priest, was inspired in 1865 when he was visiting the town of Bethlehem. ... Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 - January 23, 1893), was a noted United States clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. ... Autograph of the carol by Gruber Silent Night is a traditional and popular Christmas carol. ... Mohr and Gruber on an Austrian stamp (1987) Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863) was an Austrian primary school teacher and organist in the village of Oberndorf and then in Hallein, Salzburg. ... Josef Mohr was the Austrian priest who wrote the words to the Christmas carol, Silent Night. ... It Came Upon A Midnight Clear was written by Edmund Sears (1810-1876), pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts. ... Edmund Sears - (1810-1876), a Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th century liberal Protestants. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is a Christmas hymn or carol written by Charles Wesley, the brother of John Wesley. ... Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the age of thirty Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of Jewish parentage of the early Romantic period. ... Charles Wesley (12 December 1707 - 29 March 1788) was a leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet who wrote many works that are still famous today, including The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Reveres Ride and Evangeline. ... Adeste Fideles or O Come All Ye Faithful is a Christmas carol commonly attributed to John Francis Wade in approximately 1743. ... Frederick Oakeley (1802 - 1880) was a English Catholic clergyman. ... John Francis Wade (1711 - 1786) was an English hymnist. ... Charles Tazewell (June 2, 1900 – June 26, 1972) was the author of the childrens book The Small One, which The Walt Disney Company adapted into the animated short of the same name in 1978. ... Grandpa Jones Grandpa Jones (October 20, 1913 – February 19, 1998) was an American banjo player and old time country and gospel music singer. ...

Personnel

  • Johnny Cash - Vocals, Guitar

See also

The Johnny Cash discography sets out the albums from 1957 to 2003 of one of Country musics legendary performers. ...

External links

  • Luma Electronic's Johnny Cash discography listing
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Johnny Cash
Discography
Albums : With His Hot and Blue Guitar | Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous | The Fabulous Johnny Cash | Greatest! | Hymns by Johnny Cash | Songs of Our Soil | Sings Hank Williams | Ride This Train | Now, There Was a Song! | Now Here's Johnny Cash | The Lure of the Grand Canyon | Hymns from the Heart | The Sound of Johnny Cash | All Aboard the Blue Train | Blood, Sweat and Tears | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | The Christmas Spirit | I Walk the Line | Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian | Orange Blossom Special | Sings the Ballads of the True West | Everybody Loves a Nut | Happiness is You | Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter | From Sea to Shining Sea | Old Golden Throat | Heart of Cash | The Holy Land | More of Old Golden Throat | Hello, I'm Johnny Cash | Man in Black | A Thing Called Love | America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song | The Johnny Cash Family Christmas | Any Old Wind That Blows | Johnny Cash and His Woman | Ragged Old Flag | Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me | The Johnny Cash Children's Album | Sings Precious Memories | John R. Cash | Look at Them Beans | One Piece at a Time | The Last Gunfighter Ballad | The Rambler | I Would Like to See You Again | Gone Girl | Silver | A Believer Sings the Truth | Rockabilly Blues | Classic Christmas | The Baron | The Adventures of Johnny Cash | Johnny 99 | Rainbow | Believe in Him | Heroes | Johnny Cash is Coming to Town | Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series | Water from the Wells of Home | Boom Chicka Boom | The Mystery of Life | American Recordings | Unchained | American III: Solitary Man | American IV: The Man Comes Around | American V: A Hundred Highways | American VI
Live albums: At Folsom Prison | At San Quentin | The Johnny Cash Show | På Österåker | Strawberry Cake | The Survivors Live | VH1 Storytellers | At Madison Square Garden
Soundtrack albums: I Walk the Line | Little Fauss and Big Halsy | The Gospel Road | Return to the Promised Land
Compilation albums: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 | The World of Johnny Cash | Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | International Superstar | Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 | The Unissued Johnny Cash | Johnny & June | Tall Man | Encore | Love, God and Murder | Unearthed | The Legend | The Legend of Johnny Cash | Personal File
Songs
"25 Minutes to Go" | "A Boy Named Sue" | "Cocaine Blues" | "Cry Cry Cry" | "Dark as a Dungeon" | "Engine 143" | "Folsom Prison Blues" | "Get Rhythm" | "Goodnight, Irene" | "Green Green Grass of Home" | "Greystone Chapel" | "Hey Porter" | "Home of the Blues" | "Hurt" | "I Walk the Line" | "In My Life" | "It Ain't Me Babe" | "Jackson" | "Like the 309" | "The Man Comes Around" | "One Piece at a Time" | "The One on the Right is on the Left" | "Remember the Alamo" | "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" | "Ring of Fire" | "What'd I Say"
Family
June Carter Cash | John Carter Cash | Rosanne Cash | Carlene Carter | Vivian Liberto | Tommy Cash | Carter Family
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