A Country Christmas
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A Country Christmas is a 1966 Christmas album
by American country music singer-songwriter, Loretta Lynn
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The album was Lynn's third studio album of the year. This album was Lynn's only Holiday-oriented album of her career. The album yeilded one single, "To Heck With Ole Santa Claus", a song which Lynn wrote. The album includes two additional Lynn compositions (and one more song she co-wrote) about the Christmas season. The album also features popular holiday songs including "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", "White Christmas", and "Frosty the Snowman".
The album reached a peak position of #103 on the Billboard 200
only in late 1966.
Singles – Billboard (North America)
Christmas Album
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by American country music singer-songwriter, Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...
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The album was Lynn's third studio album of the year. This album was Lynn's only Holiday-oriented album of her career. The album yeilded one single, "To Heck With Ole Santa Claus", a song which Lynn wrote. The album includes two additional Lynn compositions (and one more song she co-wrote) about the Christmas season. The album also features popular holiday songs including "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", "White Christmas", and "Frosty the Snowman".
The album reached a peak position of #103 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
only in late 1966.
Track listing
- "Country Christmas" – 2:03 (Lynn)
- "Away In a MangerAway in a Manger"Away in a Manger" is a Christmas carol first published in 1885 in Philadelphia and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain it is one of the most popular carols, a 1996 Gallup Poll ranking it joint second.-History of the lyrics:...
" – 2:20 (Traditional) - "Santa Claus Is Coming to TownSanta Claus Is Coming to Town"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is a Christmas song. It was written by John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie, and was first sung on Eddie Cantor's radio show in November 1934....
" – 2:08 (J. Fred CootsJ. Fred CootsJohn Frederick Coots was an American songwriter. He wrote over 700 songs.He is most famous for the song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", a song that became one of the biggest best sellers in American music history....
, Haven GillespieHaven GillespieJames Lamont "Haven" Gillespie was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" as well as "You Go to My Head", "Honey", "By the Sycamore Tree", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Breezin' Along With The Breeze", "Right or Wrong," "Beautiful Love",...
) - "Silver Bells" – 2:00 (Ray EvansRay EvansRaymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...
, Jay LivingstonJay LivingstonJay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
) - "Blue ChristmasBlue Christmas"Blue Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson. The heart-broken tale of unrequited love during the holidays had long been considered a Christmas staple of country music, having been recorded first by Doye O'Dell in 1948 and popularised by Ernest Tubb the next year...
" – 2:27 (Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson) - "It Won't Seem Like Christmas" – 2:09 (Lynn)
- "To Heck With Ole Santa Claus" – 2:01 (Lynn)
- "White ChristmasWhite Christmas (song)"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.Accounts vary as...
" – 2:02 (Irving BerlinIrving BerlinIrving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
) - "Frosty the SnowmanFrosty the Snowman"Frosty the Snowman" is a popular song written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950. It was written after the success of Autry's recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" the previous year; Rollins and Nelson shipped the...
" – 2:58 (Steve Nelson, Walter E. Rollins) - "Christmas Without Daddy" – 2:07 (Webb)
- "I Won't Decorate Your Christmas Tree" – 2:05 (Bob Cummings, Barbara Cummings, Cummings, Lynn)
- "Gift of the Blues" – 2:19 (Hank CochranHank CochranGarland Perry "Hank" Cochran was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting during the 1960s, Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre, including major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others...
)
Chart positions
Album – Billboard (North America)| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Country Albums | N/A |
| 1966 | Pop Albums | 103 |
Singles – Billboard (North America)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | "To Heck With Ole Santa Claus" | Country Singles | N/A |