Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
Studio album by Burl Ives
Released	October 1965
Recorded	Brooklyn Studios
Genre	Christmas, folk, pop
Length	29:28
Label	Decca
Producer	Milt Gabler
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Have a Holly Jolly Christmas is a Christmas album by American folk singer Burl Ives, first released by Decca Records in October 1965 (recorded in November 1964).

Ives had recorded two of the songs on the album ("A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") previously for the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer soundtrack, but he recorded new versions for Have a Holly Jolly Christmas. "A Holly Jolly Christmas" in particular had a significantly different and slower arrangement, which is more commonly heard today. This version had already been released as a single the previous year, with a B-side of "Snow for Johnny", which he also featured on the album.^[2]

Track listing[]

LP side 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Holly Jolly Christmas"	Johnny Marks	2:15
2.	"Christmas is a Birthday"	Gregory Paul Deutsch Dick Manning	2:42
3.	"Santa Claus is Coming to Town"	J. Fred Coots Haven Gillespie	2:09
4.	"Christmas Child"	Sid Tepper Roy C. Bennett	2:50
5.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	2:10
6.	"Christmas Can't Be Far Away"	Boudleaux Bryant	2:34

LP side 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Little Drummer Boy"	Katherine K. Davis Henry V. Onorati Harry Simeone	3:17
2.	"Snow for Johnny"	Gregory Paul Deutsch Dick Manning	2:42
3.	"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"	Johnny Marks	2:10
4.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard Dick Smith	2:17
5.	"Silver Bells"	Jay Livingston Ray Evans	2:13
6.	"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"	Johnny Marks	2:13

Personnel[]

Burl Ives – lead vocals
Owen Bradley – director of chorus and orchestra

References[]

Decca DL 4689 (mono), DL 74689 (stereo), 1965 vinyl LP release
MCA 15002 (1977 LP re-issue) at discogs.com
MCAD 25992 (1995 CD re-issue) at discogs.com

^ Torreano, Bradley. Have a Holly Jolly Christmas at AllMusic. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
^ Decca Records #31695, A-side of "A Holly Jolly Christmas", with a B-side of "Snow for Johnny"

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[1] Torreano, Bradley. Have a Holly Jolly Christmas at AllMusic. Retrieved 8 January 2012.

[2] Decca Records #31695, A-side of "A Holly Jolly Christmas", with a B-side of "Snow for Johnny"

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Albums	Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger (1941) The Wayfaring Stranger (1944) The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger (1949) Historical America in Song (1950) Christmas Day in the Morning (1952) Down to the Sea in Ships (1956) Burl Ives Sings... For Fun (1956) Australian Folk Songs (1958) Little White Duck (1959) The Versatile Burl Ives! (1961) Songs of the West (1961) It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin' (1962) Sing of Faith and Joy (1963) America's Musical Heritage (1963) Animal Folk (1963) Scouting Along (1964) Pearly Shells (1964) Chim Chim Cheree (1964) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) Have a Holly Jolly Christmas (1965) The Times They Are a-Changin' (1968) Christmas at the White House (1972) Christmas by the Bay (1977)
Singles	"Blue Tail Fly" "Foggy Dew" "The Wayfaring Stranger" "Lavender's Blue" "Big Rock Candy Mountain" "Riders in the Sky" "On Top of Old Smoky" "The Wild Side of Life" "A Little Bitty Tear" "Funny Way of Laughin'" "Chim Chim Cher-ee" "A Holly Jolly Christmas"
Related	List of works by Burl Ives