Season's Greetings (album)

Season's Greetings
Studio album by Tatsuro Yamashita
Released	November 18, 1993 August 28, 2013(20th Anniversary Expanded Edition)
Genre	Pop, christmas music
Length	38:51 54:28 (2013 remaster) Label = MMG/Moon Records
Tatsuro Yamashita chronology
Artisan (1991) Season's Greetings (1993) Treasures (1995)

Season's Greetings is a cover album by Tatsurō Yamashita, released in November 1993. It is sort of a holiday album, though some of the songs have nothing to do with christmas or the winter season.

Season's Greetings features an English version of his signature song "Christmas Eve". The remake version, that has lyrics written by Alan O'Day, was included on several reissues of the CD single of the song in later years.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Acappella Variation on a Theme by Gluck" (Christoph Willibald Gluck) - 0:49
2. "Bella Notte" (Peggy Lee, Sonny Burke) - 3:50
3. "Be My Love" (Nicholas Brodzsky, Sammy Cahn) - 3:40
4. "Angels We Have Heard on High" (traditional) - 1:00
5. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 3:08
6. "Silent Night (Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr) - 1:09
7. "My Gift to You" (James Harris III, Terry Lewis) - 4:05
8. "It's All in the Game" (Carl Sigman, Charles G. Dawes) - 3:23
9. "Just a Lonely Christmas" (Harvey Fuqua, Alan Freed) - 2:24
10. "Happy Holiday" (Bob Staunton) - 2:20
11. "Blue Christmas" (Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson) - 2:46
12. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) -　2:23
13. "Christmas Eve" [English Version] (Tatsuro Yamashita, Alan O'Day) - 4:13
14. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) - 2:48
15. "O Come All Ye Faithful" (John Francis Wade) - 0:53

Bonus tracks (2013 Remaster)

16. "White Christmas" (Happy Xmas Show! version) (Berlin) - 2:26
17. "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (traditional)　- 0:47
18. "Jingle Bell Rock" (Live version) (Joe Beal, Jim Boothe) - 2:24
19. "O Little One Sweet" - 0:49
20. "Jingle Bell Rock" (Happy Xmas Show! version) (Beal, Boothe) - 2:21
21. "It's All in the Game" (Live version) (Sigman, Dawes)- 5:36
22. "Joy to the World" - 0:37

Charts

Peak positions Chart (1993) Position Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[2] 4 Chart (2013) Position Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[2] 11 Year-end charts Chart (1994) Position Japanese Albums Chart[3] 54

Certifications Region Certification Sales/shipments Japan (RIAJ)[4] Platinum 392,000[5] ^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

1. 「クリスマス・イブ」シングル再発盤ヒストリー "Reissue History of a single "Christmas Eve"" Check |url= value (help). smile-co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-07-25.
2. "山下達郎-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック" [(Highest position and charting weeks for Season's Greetings by Tatsuro Yamashita)]. oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Original Confidence. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
3. "1994年 アルバム年間TOP100" [Oricon Year-end Albums Chart of 1993] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-01-01.
4. ""RIAJ > The Record > January 1994 > Certified Awards (November 1993)"" (PDF). Recording Industry Association of Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 December 2013.
5. Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.