Christmas in My Heart is a studio album of Christmas music recorded by Connie Francis. The album features popular songs of the season on the A-side and the sacred music of Christmas on the B-side.Liner notes by Connie Francis on the cover of the original vinyl album It was re-released as Connie's Christmas in 1966.
Background Christmas in My Heart was recorded in August 1959 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, then called EMI Recording Studios in LondonRon Roberts: Connie Francis Discography 1955 – 1975, under the musical direction of Geoff LoveWilliam Ruhlmann: Connie Francis 1955 – 1959, supplement to 5 CD Boxed Set White Sox, Pink Lipstick... and Stupid Cupid, Bear Family Records BCD 16 616 EI, Hambergen (Germany) 1993 and was released in November 1959.Connie Francis: Souvenirs, Booklet of 4-CD-Box, Polydor 1996, Cat.-No. 314 533 382-2
The album was repackaged with a new cover design and re-released in October 1962. The album charted for 3 weeks peaking at No. 19 on Billboard'''s Christmas Records album chart on December 21, 1963."Christmas Records." Billboard, vol. 75, no. 51, December 21, 1963, p. 8. worldradiohistory.com
Another repackaging and re-release followed in November 1966; this time the album was also retitled Connie's Christmas'' and received a new catalogue number: E-4399 for mono pressings and SE-4399 for stereo pressings.as above A compact disc edition of the album was issued by Polydor Records in 1988, with "Baby's First Christmas" (the B-side to Francis' 1961 single "When the Boy in Your Arms (Is the Boy in Your Heart)") added as a bonus track.
Track listing Side A
Side B
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