You Just Gotta Love Christmas (2004) is the eighth solo album by music artist Peter Cetera

Peter Cetera

Peter Paul Cetera is an American singer, songwriter, bassist and producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago, before launching a successful solo career...

 his seventh since leaving the group Chicago

Chicago (band)

Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...

, and his first Christmas

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...

 album. This album also is a bit of a family affair for Cetera as his youngest daughter Senna did some of the artwork for the album while his oldest daughter Claire performs with him on "Blue Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland." Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss

Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...

 also performs with Cetera on "Deck the Halls".

Track listing

1. "Let It Snow
   Let It Snow
   "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", also known as "Let It Snow", is a song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in 1945. The song was written in July 1945 in Hollywood, California during one of the hottest days on record. First recorded by Vaughn Monroe, it became a popular...
   
   " (Sammy Cahn
   Sammy Cahn
   Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
   
   , Jule Styne
   Jule Styne
   Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
   
   ) – 2:59
2. "Christmas Song" (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...
   
   , 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...
   
   ) – 3:36
3. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
   Santa 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....
   
   " (J. Fred Coots
   J. Fred Coots
   John 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 Gillespie
   Haven Gillespie
   James 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",...
   
   ) – 3:10
4. "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...
   
   " (with Claire Cetera) (Billy Hays, Jay Johnson) – 3:19
5. "Deck The Halls
   Deck The Halls (book)
   Deck The Halls is a 2003 thriller novel by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark....
   
   " (with Alison Krauss
   Alison Krauss
   Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
   
   ) (traditional - Peter Cetera, Tony Harrell) – 3:10
6. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Buck Ram, 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:...
   
   , Kim Gannon) – 2:40
7. "You Just Gotta Love Christmas" (Cetera, Harrell) – 3:17
8. "Jingle Bells
   Jingle Bells
   "Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857...
   
   " (traditional - Cetera, Harrell) – 3:36
9. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
   God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen is an English traditional Christmas carol. The melody is in Aeolian mode. It was published by William B...
   
   " (traditional - Cetera, Harrell) – 3:01
10. "Winter Wonderland
    Winter Wonderland
    "Winter Wonderland" is a winter song, popularly treated as a Christmastime pop standard, written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith . Through the decades it has been recorded by over 150 different artists.-History:...
    
    " (with Claire Cetera) (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – 2:57
11. "Something that Santa Claus Left Behind" (Cetera, Harrell) – 3:56
12. "Alone for the Holidays" (Cetera, Harrell) – 3:58