Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas is a 1967 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, her second release for Capitol Records. The album consists of religious songs, in contrast to the secular Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (1960). It charted at #27 on the Billboard Holiday Albums chart.
Track listing For the 1967 LP on Capitol Records; Capitol ST ST 2805; re-issued in 2000 on CD, Capitol 7243 5 27674 2 7
Side One: "O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight) – 1:47 "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (Edmund Hamilton Sears, Richard Storrs Willis) – 3:21 "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) – 1:49 "Away in a Manger" (Traditional) – 2:12 "Joy to the World" (Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) – 1:40 "The First Noel" (William B. Sandys) – 1:50 "Silent Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr) – 2:52 Side Two: "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade) – 2:45 "Sleep, My Little Jesus" – 2:17 "Angels We Have Heard on High" (Traditional) – 1:45 "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillip Brooks, Lewis H. Redner) – 2:10 "We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins Jr.) – 2:07 "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Traditional) – 1:27
Personnel Performance Ella Fitzgerald – vocal Ralph Carmichael – conductor Robert Black, Grace Price - arrangers Ralph Carmichael's Chorus And Orchestra
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