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Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

-themed studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 singer Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...

, released in 2008

2008 in music

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 exclusively at Hallmark Gold Crown stores. The album was re-released in 2010 exclusively at Target

Target Corporation

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 stores with new artwork.

Track listing

1. "Go Tell It on the Mountain
   Go Tell It on the Mountain (song)
   "Go Tell It on the Mountain" is an African-American spiritual song, compiled by John Wesley Work, Jr., dating back to at least 1865, that has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers...
   
   " (Traditional)
2. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
   The Christmas Song
   "The Christmas Song" is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by musician, composer, and vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...
   
   " (Mel Tormé / Robert Wells)
3. "White Christmas
   White Christmas
   A white Christmas refers to the presence of snow on Christmas Day. This phenomenon is most common in the northern countries of the Northern Hemisphere...
   
   " (Irving Berlin)
4. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon / Walter Kent / Buck Ram)
5. "Merry Christmas, Baby
   Merry Christmas Baby
   "Merry Christmas Baby" is an R & B Christmas standard written by Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore. It has been covered by many artists including Otis Redding, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Hanson. The original 1947 version by Johnny Moore's Three Trailblazers "Merry Christmas Baby" is an R...
   
   " (Lou Baxter / Johnny Moore)
6. "The Bells of St. Mary's
   The Bells of St. Mary's (song)
   "The Bells of St. Mary's" is a popular song.The music was written by A. Emmett Adams, the lyrics by Douglas Furber, following a visit to St. Mary's Church, Southampton, England. The song was published in 1917....
   
   " (Emmett Adams / Douglas Furber)
7. "Blue Christmas
   Blue 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...
   
   " (Bill Hayes / Jay Johnson)
8. "O Holy Night
   O Holy Night
   "O Holy Night" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by Placide Cappeau , a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem...
   
   " (Traditional)
9. "There Is a Star That Shines Tonight" (Sheryl Crow)
10. "Hello, My Friend, Hello" (Bill Botrell) (Hallmark Download and Australian Import CD)
11. "All Through the Night
    Ar Hyd y Nos
    Ar Hyd y Nos is a Welsh folksong sung to a tune that was first recorded in Edward Jones' Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards . The Welsh lyrics were written by John Ceiriog Hughes, and has been translated into several languages, including English and Breton.The melody was used by John...
    
    " (Traditional Welsh Aire)

Crow previously recorded "Blue Christmas" in 1997 as part of the A Very Special Christmas 3

A Very Special Christmas 3

A Very Special Christmas 3 is the third in a series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit Special Olympics. The album was released on 23 September 1997, and production was overseen by Bobby Shriver, Al Cafaro, and Linda Feder for A&M Records.-Track listing:# "I Saw Three...

collection in a completely different arrangement.

"O Holy Night" features a minute-long intro of "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

It Came upon a Midnight Clear

"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Lancaster, Massachusetts...

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Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2008	"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasing on an Open Fire)"	Billboard Adult Contemporary	24