Gold: A 50th Anniversary Christmas Celebration
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| Compilation album by Johnny Mathis | ||||
| Released | September 19, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 1958–2006 | |||
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| Length | 49:23 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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Gold: A 50th Anniversary Christmas Celebration is a compilation album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on September 19, 2006, by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings. It includes selections from four of the first five Christmas albums that he had recorded: Merry Christmas, Sounds of Christmas, Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis, and The Christmas Album. Two tracks that were recorded with other artists are also included: "O Tannenbaum", which comes from Mannheim Steamroller's 2001 album Christmas Extraordinaire, and a medley duet of "Winter Wonderland" and "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" with Bette Midler from her 2006 holiday album Cool Yule.
This first of his two 50th anniversary compilations reached number 191 during its one week on Billboard magazine's album chart in the issue dated December 30, 2006. The second of the two, Gold: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (which was released two months after this one, on November 21), also charted for one week in that same issue but positioned slightly higher, at 171.
John Bush of AllMusic describes the compilation as "a solid collection" and Mathis as "a wonderful holiday singer, easily able to summon the congenial warmth and energetic cheerfulness that made his version of "Sleigh Ride" a perennial hit."
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