Merry Christmas to You, released in 1987, is the fourteenth album and first Christmas album by Reba McEntire

Reba McEntire

Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...

, with most of the tunes being McEntire's renditions of very familiar traditional Christmas fare. It is currently the latest album (as of 2009) to bear McEntire's last name on the front cover. Songs from the album wouldn't chart until ten and twelve years after its release.

Track listing

1. "Away in a Manger
   Away 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:...
   
   " (James R. Murray) - 2:26
2. "On This Day" (Michael Patrick Heeney, David Scarlett) - 3:58
3. "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...
   
   " (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...
   
   , John Sullivan Dwight
   John Sullivan Dwight
   John Sullivan Dwight was a Unitarian minister, transcendentalist and America's first influential classical music critic.-Biography:...
   
   ) - 3:54
4. "The Christmas Guest" (Grandpa Jones
   Grandpa Jones
   Louis Marshall Jones , known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and "old time" country and gospel music singer...
   
   , Ramona Jones, Bill Walker) - 5:23
5. "Silent Night
   Silent Night
   "Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...
   
   " (Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr
   Josef Mohr
   Joseph Mohr, sometimes spelt Josef was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and composer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night".-Biography:...
   
   ) - 3:36
6. "Happy Birthday Jesus (I'll Open This One for You)" (Traditional) - 2:33
7. "White Christmas
   White 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...
   
   " (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...
   
   ) - 3:02
8. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent
   Walter Kent
   Walter Kent was a Jewish American composer who wrote the music for songs including the Christmas standard "I'll Be Home for Christmas", and the wartime hit " The White Cliffs of Dover", co-written with fellow American Nat Burton. He died at the age of 82-External links:...
   
   , Buck Ram
   Buck Ram
   Buck Ram was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.-Biography:...
   
   ) - 3:16
9. "A Christmas Letter" (John Greenebaum, Paul Nelson, Gene Nelson) - 3:11
10. "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
    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...
    
    , Bob Wells) - 3:26

Personnel

• Background Vocals: Suzie Hoskins, Leigh Reynolds, Reba McEntire
• Drums: Steve Short
• Bass: Roger Wills
• Acoustic Guitar: Leigh Reynolds, Bill Cooley
• Piano: Donny Howard
• Steel: Donnie LaValley
• Electric Guitar: Bill Cooley
• Fiddle: Ricky Solomon

Musicians on "On This Day" and "Away In A Manger"

• Drums: Matt Betton
• Bass: Emory Gordy, Jr.
  Emory Gordy, Jr.
  Emory Gordy, Jr., born December 25, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American musician and music producer. Since 1989, he has been married to country music artist Patty Loveless. Gordy was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1992...
  
  
• Electric Guitar: Billy Joe Walker, Jr., Larry Byrom
• Acoustic Guitar: Mac McAnally
• Keyboards: John Jarvis
• Fiddle: Mark O'Connor
  Mark O'Connor
  Mark O'Connor is an American bluegrass, jazz, country and classical violinist fiddler, composer and music teacher. O'Connor's music is wide-ranging, critically acclaimed, and he has received numerous awards for both his playing and his composition...
  
  
• Steel: Thomas Brumley
• Chimes and Vibrs: Farrell Morris
• Vocals- Vince Gill
  Vince Gill
  Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
  
   (on "On This Day")

Other

Art Direction: Simon Levy
Photography: McGuire
Design: Katherine DeVault Design
Styling: Ann Payne
Fur: J. Jacklyn Furriers

Produced by Jimmy Bowen for Lynwood Productions and Reba McEntire for Reba McEntire Productions, except for "On This Day" and "Away In A Manger", produced by Tony Brown.

Recorded by Ron Treat. Overdubs recorded by Ron Treat, Steve Tillisch, Willie Pevear, Bob Bullock.
Mixed by Bob Bullock and Steve Tillisch.

Sound Engineers: Mark J. Coddington, Tim Kish, Marty Williams, Russ Martin

Digitally recorded using the Mitsubishi X-850 32 track digital at Sound Stage Studio, Emerald Studio, 16th Ave. Sound, Backstage, and Masterfonics.

Mastered by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics using the JVC Digital Audio Mastering System.

Digital editing by Milan Bogdan.

CD master tape prepared by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics.

Project Coordinator: Jesse Noble

Album

Chart (1987)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	72
U.S. Billboard Top Holiday Albums	20

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
1997	"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)"	63
1999	"I'll Be Home for Christmas"	68
	"Away in a Manger"	73

Certifications/sales