Christmas Time's A-Comin' (album)

Christmas Time's A-Comin'
Studio album by Sammy Kershaw
Released	October 4, 1994
Genre	Country
Length	33:21
Label	Mercury Nashville
Producer	Buddy Cannon, Norro Wilson
Sammy Kershaw chronology
Feelin' Good Train (1994) Christmas Time's A-Comin' (1994) The Hits Chapter 1 (1995)

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Allmusic	[1]

Christmas Time's A-Comin' is an album of Christmas music released in late 1994 by American country music singer Sammy Kershaw. His first seasonal project, it comprises a mix of traditional songs and newly recorded material. The title track, a bluegrass holiday standard written by Benjamin "Tex" Logan, charted in 1995 and 1998 on the Billboard country charts, respectively reaching #50 and #53 in those years.

Track listing

1. "We Three Kings (Part 1)" (John Henry Hopkins) – 0:53
2. "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" (Tex Logan) – 3:17
3. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 4:23
4. "Please Come Home for Christmas" (Charles Brown, Gene Redd) – 2:50
5. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) – 2:35
6. "Frosty the Snowman" (Walter Rollins, Steve Nelson) – 2:47
7. "Daddy Stuff" (Rock Killough) – 3:59
8. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) – 2:01
9. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (Troy Powers, Andy Stone) – 3:37
10. "Christmas Won't Be Christmas (Without You Here)" (Steven D. Cohen, Rick Lagneaux) – 3:36
11. "Up on the House Top" (Benjamin Hanby) - 2:26
    • duet with daughter Erin^[2]
12. "We Three Kings (Part 2)" (Hopkins) – 0:57

Personnel

From liner notes.^[2]

Musicians

• Mike Chapman - bass guitar
• Charles Cochran - keyboards
• Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
• Rob Hajacos - fiddle
• Michael Haynes - horns
• Sammy Kershaw - lead vocals
• Paul Leim - drums
• Sam Levine - clarinet
• Douglas Moffett - horns
• Farrell Morris - percussion
• Nashville String Machine - strings
• William Puett - horns
• Danny Parks - acoustic guitar
• Don Sheffield - horns
• Dennis Solee - horns
• Wayne Toups - accordion
• Pete Wade - gut string guitar
• Reggie Young - electric guitar

Backing vocalists

• Tracks 3, 4, 7, 9: Kim Fleming, Jana King, Lisa Silver, Louis Nunley, Bergen White
• Tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11: Cindy Walker, Dennis Wilson, Curtis Young

Technical

• Buddy Cannon and Norro Wilson - production
• Charles Cochran - string arrangement
• Ronnie Thomas - digital editing
• Bergen White - horn arrangement (track 4), vocal arrangement (tracks 3, 4, 7, 9)
• Hank Williams - mastering

Chart performance

Chart (1994)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	52

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Christmas Time's A-Comin' (CD insert). Sammy Kershaw. Mercury Records. 1994. 22638.