Because It's Christmas

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Because It's Christmas
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Studio album by
Barry Manilow
ReleasedSeptember 25, 1990
GenrePop
Easy listening
Length42:35
LabelArista
ProducerBarry Manilow & [1]
Barry Manilow chronology
Live on Broadway
(1990) 		Because It's Christmas
(1990) 		Showstoppers
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic3/5 stars[2]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[3]

Because It's Christmas is the first of three Christmas albums released by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was released in 1990 and was a huge success, becoming Manilow's first platinum album since 1984's 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe. It also began a period in Manilow's career in which he recorded cover albums. Each album would focus on a particular style of music. He continued this pattern until the release of Here at the Mayflower in 2001.

The version of "Jingle Bells" on the album is a cover of the 1943 recording by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters with the girl group Exposé taking the Andrews Sisters' part.

Because It's Christmas was the best-selling Christmas album of 1990 in the U.S. The album peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart,[4] and spent five weeks at number 1 on Billboard magazine's special, year-end, weekly Christmas Albums sales chart in December 1990 and January 1991.[4]

On July 19, 2002, Because It's Christmas was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million copies in the U.S.[5]

Track listing[]

Side 1
  1. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé / Robert Wells) - 3:54
  2. "Jingle Bells" (Duet with Exposé) (James Pierpont) - 2:39
  3. "Silent Night/I Guess There Ain't No Santa Claus" (Eddie Arkin/Barry Manilow/Johnny Mercer/Traditional) - 5:19
  4. "The First Noel/When The Meadow Was Bloomin'" (Barry Manilow/Johnny Mercer/Traditional) - 5:01
  5. "Excerpt from Handel's Messiah/Because It's Christmas" (Jack Feldman/Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman) - 5:28
Side 2
  1. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (Duet with K.T. Oslin) (Frank Loesser) - 5:19
  2. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 1:32
  3. "Carol Of The Bells/The Bells Of Christmas" (Adrienne Anderson/Barry Manilow/Peter J. Wilhousky) - 4:48
  4. "Joy To The World/Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane/Hugh Martin/Traditional) - 3:46
  5. "We Wish You A Merry Christmas/It's Just Another New Year's Eve" (Barry Manilow/Marty Panzer/Traditional) - 4:47

[1]

Certifications[]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[5] Platinum 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b CD packaging
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Whitburn, Joel (2004). Christmas in the Charts (1920-2004). Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 163. ISBN 0-89820-161-6.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "American album certifications – Barry Manilow – Because It's Christmas". Recording Industry Association of America.


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