Carpenters ‎ An Old-Fashioned Christmas Rare 1984 A&M Records Orig. Vinyl LP
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An Old-Fashioned Christmas Studio album by  Carpenters Released October 26, 1984 Recorded 1974, 1978 Genre Holiday Label A&M Producer Richard Carpenter, Karen Carpenter, Jack Daugherty Carpenters chronology Voice of the Heart
(1983) An Old-Fashioned Christmas
(1984) Lovelines
(1989)

An Old-Fashioned Christmas is the second Christmas album and posthumous twelfth studio album by American music duo Carpenters, released on October 26, 1984, and after the death of singer and drummer Karen Carpenter.

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Background

The album project had its genesis in several unused tracks from the Carpenters' previous Christmas album, 1978's Christmas Portrait. Richard Carpenter took these tracks and recorded new material around them, and this album was the end result. The album includes the slower version of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (a faster version appeared on the Christmas Portrait album).

Track listing

All lead vocals by Karen Carpenter, except where noted; all tracks produced by Richard Carpenter except "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" by Jack Daugherty, R. Carpenter, and K. Carpenter.

Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (lead vocals: R. Carpenter)
  • Edmund Sears
  • Richard Storrs Willis
0:43 2. "Overture: Happy Holiday / The First Noel / March of the Toys / Little Jesus / I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / O Little Town of Bethlehem / In Dulce Jubilo / Gesu Bambino (The Infant Jesus) / Angels We Have Heard on High"
  • Berlin / Traditional
  • R. Carpenter[a] / Victor Herbert / Traditional
  • R. Carpenter[a] / Tommie Connor / Phillips Brooks
  • Lewis Redner / Traditional
  • R. Carpenter[a] / Pietro Yon / Traditional
  • R. Carpenter[a]
8:13 3. "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" (lead vocals: R. Carpenter)
  • R. Carpenter
  • John Bettis
2:14 4. "O Holy Night" (instrumental)
  • Adolphe Adam
  • R. Carpenter[a]
3:31 5. "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays"
  • Al Stillman
  • Robert Allen
2:13 6. "Medley: Here Comes Santa Claus / Frosty the Snowman / Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / Good King Wenceslas" (instrumental)
  • Gene Autry
  • Oakley Haldeman / Steve Nelson
  • Jack Rollins / Johnny Marks / John Mason Neale
  • R. Carpenter[a]
3:43 7. "Little Altar Boy" Howlett Peter Smith 3:43 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 8. "Do You Hear What I Hear?" (lead vocals: K. and R. Carpenter)
  • Gloria Shayne
  • Noël Regney
2:53 9. "My Favorite Things" (instrumental)
  • Richard Rodgers
  • Oscar Hammerstein II
3:53 10. "He Came Here for Me" Ron Nelson 2:12 11. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (lead vocals: K. and R. Carpenter)
  • John Frederick Coots
  • Haven Gillespie
4:04 12. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" Frank Loesser 2:51 13. "Selections from The Nutcracker: Overture Miniature / Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy / Trepak / Valse des fleurs" (instrumental)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • R. Carpenter[a]
6:14 14. "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Johnny Marks
2:21


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