To Wish You a Merry Christmas
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The 1962 reissue LP cover.
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| Studio album by Harry Belafonte | ||||
| Released | 1958 | |||
| Recorded | 1958 | |||
| Genre | Vocal, Christmas | |||
| Length | 45:56 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer | Ed Welker | |||
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To Wish You a Merry Christmas is an album by Harry Belafonte Recorded May 27, 31, June 1, 3 and 8 of 1958 in Hollywood. Conducted by Bob Corman. Millard Thomas and Laurindo Almeida, guitarists. Produced and directed by Ed Welker.
To Wish You a Merry Christmas was originally released in 1958 as RCA Victor catalog number LPM/LSP-1887. The original LP cover featured an illustration of the Three Wise Men and a listing of the songs in front.
Side 1:
Side 2:
The album was repackaged in 1962 as RCA Victor catalog number LPM/LSP-2626 with a different cover (with Belafonte's picture this time) and a different Side 2. The credits are also slightly different, listing the conductor as Robert De Cormier.
Side 1: identical to the 1958 release.
Side 2:
In 1976, the songs were repackaged again, under the title Belafonte's Christmas, from RCA Canada, catalog number KNLI-0166 [1]. The tracks are identical to the 1962 release, except that sides 1 and 2 have been switched (i.e. the first song of the album is now "Mary's Boy Child"). A completely different picture of Belafonte is used on the cover.
In 2001, the album was rereleased on CD as Harry Belafonte Christmas, with five bonus tracks added:
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