Christmas on Death Row
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Christmas on Death Row is a compilation released by Death Row Records
Death Row Records
Death Row Records is a record label founded in 1991 by Marion "Suge" Knight Jr., Andre Young , Tracy Lynn Curry and Michael Harris . It is known to have been home to many popular West Coast hip hop artists such as Dr...

 on December 5, 1996. The album sold 200,000 copies. The album was made as a form of charity to the community.

Track listing

  1. Snoop Dogg
    Snoop Dogg
    Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...

     ft. Daz Dillinger
    Daz Dillinger
    Delmar Drew Arnaud , better known by his stage name Daz Dillinger is an American hip hop producer and rapper mostly known for his membership in the rap duo Tha Dogg Pound, with Kurupt, and his work with Death Row Records.-The Chronic, Tha Dogg Pound and Dogg Food:Daz began his career on Death Row...

    , Nate Dogg
    Nate Dogg
    Nathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, was an American musician. He is noted for his membership of rap trio 213 and his solo career in which he collaborated with Dr. Dre, Warren G, Tupac and Snoop Dogg on many hit releases. Nate Dogg released three solo albums, G-Funk...

    , Tray Deee
    Tray Deee
    Tray Deee is a rapper who was once signed to Death Row Records and later signed with Snoop Dogg's label Dogghouse Records .-Career:...

    , Bad Azz - "Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto" [produced by Snoop Dogg]
    • Isaac Hayes
      Isaac Hayes
      Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...

       sample ("Do Your Thing")
  2. Danny Boy
    Danny Boy (artist)
    Danny Boy or DB is the stage name of Chicago native Danny Boy Steward, a contemporary African-American soul singer. He was signed to Death Row Records when he was just 15. He made his debut on 1994's Murder Was the Case soundtrack with the R&B charter Come When I Call...

     - "Christmas Song" [produced by Kevyn Lewis]
    • Remake of the "The Christmas Song" by Mel Tormé
      Mel Tormé
      Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...

       and Robert Wells
      Robert Wells (songwriter)
      Robert Wells was an American songwriter, composer, script writer and television producer. During his early career, he collaborated with singer and songwriter Mel Tormé, writing several hit songs, most notably "The Christmas Song" in 1945...

  3. Tha Dogg Pound
    Tha Dogg Pound
    Tha Dogg Pound is a rap group made up of Daz Dillinger and Kurupt. They were signed to Death Row Records in their early careers and were key to the label's success. The group made their 1992 rap debut on Dr. Dre's The Chronic, on various songs. They also appeared on Snoop Dogg's debut album...

     - "I Wish" [produced by Daz Dillinger]
  4. Michel'le
    Michel'le
    Michel'le Toussant better known as Michel'le, is an American R&B singer-songwriter known for her squeaky, child-like speaking voice, which is a startling contrast to her strong vocals.-Career:...

     - "Silver Bells" [produced by Kevyn Lewis]
    • Remake of the "Silver Bells" by Jay Livingston
      Jay Livingston
      Jay 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....

       and Ray Evans
      Ray Evans
      Raymond 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...

  5. Danny Boy - "Peaceful Christmas" [produced by Kevyn Lewis]
  6. O.F.T.B. - "Christmas in the Ghetto" [produced by O.F.T.B.]
  7. B.G.O.T.I. ft. 6 Feet Deep, Guess - "Silent Night" [produced by Kevyn Lewis]
    • Remake of "Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht" by Franz Gruber and Joseph Mohr
  8. Nate Dogg
    Nate Dogg
    Nathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, was an American musician. He is noted for his membership of rap trio 213 and his solo career in which he collaborated with Dr. Dre, Warren G, Tupac and Snoop Dogg on many hit releases. Nate Dogg released three solo albums, G-Funk...

     & Butch Cassidy
    Butch Cassidy (singer)
    Danny Elliott Means II or better known by his stage name, Butch Cassidy, is an R&B singer, cousin of the deceased rapper, Nate Dogg, who started to sing in the church choir with him...

     - "Be Thankful" [produced by Sean 'Barney' Thomas]
  9. 816 - "On This Glorious Day" [produced by (Uncredited)]
  10. 6 Feet Deep - "Frosty the Snowman" [produced by Kevyn Lewis]
    • Remake of "Frosty the Snowman" by Steve Edward Nelson and Walter E. Rollins
  11. B.G.O.T.I. - "O Holy Night" [produced by Kevyn Lewis]
    • Remake of "Minuit, Chrétiens" by Adolphe Adam
      Adolphe Adam
      Adolphe Charles Adam was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle and Le corsaire , his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau , Le toréador and Si j'étais roi , and his Christmas...

       and John Sullivan Dwight
      John Sullivan Dwight
      John Sullivan Dwight was a Unitarian minister, transcendentalist and America's first influential classical music critic.-Biography:...

  12. J-Flexx
    J-Flexx
    James E. Anderson better known as J-Flexx is a former artist/producer of Death Row Records.-Life On Death Row:J-Flexx spent several years ghostwriting lyrics for Dr. Dre during his tenure at Death Row Records. The first song he co-wrote in that collaboration, "Natural Born Killaz," became a Top 40...

     ft. Sean 'Barney' Thomas - "Party 4 Da Homies" [produced by Sean 'Barney' Thomas]
  13. Guess - "White Christmas" [produced by Kevyn Lewis]
    • Remake of "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin
      Irving Berlin
      Irving 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...

  14. Danny Boy - "This Christmas" [produced by Kevyn Lewis]
    • Samples Donny Hathaway
      Donny Hathaway
      Donny Edward Hathaway was an American soul singer-songwriter and musician. Hathaway contracted with Atlantic Records in 1969 and with his first single for the Atco label, "The Ghetto, Part I" in early 1970, Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music."His collaborations...

      's "This Christmas"
  15. 6 Feet Deep - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" [produced by Kevyn Lewis]
    • Remake of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Hugh Martin
      Hugh Martin
      Hugh Martin was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St...

       and Ralph Blane
      Ralph Blane
      Ralph Blane was an American composer, lyricist, and performer.-Life and career:Born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Blane was the son of grocery store owners. He attended Tulsa Central High School...

       from the musical Meet Me in St. Louis
      Meet Me in St. Louis
      Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of an American family living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair in 1904...

  16. Guess - "Christmas Everyday" [produced by Kevyn Lewis]
    • Remake of the "Christmas Everyday" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

External links

  • Christmas on Death Row at MySpace
    MySpace
    Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

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