The Christmas EP (Richard Marx EP)

The Christmas EP

EP by Richard Marx

Released

November 1, 2011

Recorded

Renegade Studio, Blackbird Studios

Genre

Pop

Length

17:17

Label

Zanzibar Records, TourDeForce Productions

Producer

Richard Marx

Richard Marx chronology

Duo Live
(2010)

The Christmas EP
(2011)

Inside My Head
(2012)

The Christmas EP is a holiday album by musician Richard Marx. It was released on November 1, 2011 with the intention of recording an additional seven songs to add to the five songs to make a full-length album for release in 2012, which would become Christmas Spirit.^[1]

It was his 23rd overall album, with the lead-off single "Christmas Spirit" being his 32nd single. The track reached #15 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart in December, giving Marx back-to-back Top 20 AC hits in 2011 (his first time since 1997).

Track listing

"Christmas Spirit" (Marx, Waybill)
"O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam, Placide Cappeau)
"Silent Night" (duet with Sara Watkins) (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr)
"I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johnny Marks)
"Alleluia" (Larry Gatlin)

Album credits

Personnel

Steve Brewster - drums
Cliff Colnot - string arrangements
Mark Hill - bass guitar
Brandon Marx - guitars, drums, background vocals
Jesse Marx - keyboards, background vocals
Lucas Marx - guitars, background vocals
Richard Marx - producer, writer, arrangements, lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Jerry McPherson - electric guitar
Jason Webb - keyboards, piano
Michael Omartian - piano
Sara Watkins - lead vocals
Fee Waybill - writer

Background Vocals

Opal Staples
Simbryt Whittington

Engineers

Chip Matthews
Justin Niebank
Matthew Prock
Benny Quinn

References

↑ Music Producer Richard Marx: 'The Playboy Club' Felt 'Doomed From the Start'. The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-producer-richard-marx-playboy-252004

Richard Marx

Studio albums	Richard Marx Repeat Offender Rush Street Paid Vacation Flesh and Bone Days in Avalon My Own Best Enemy Emotional Remains Sundown Christmas Spirit Beautiful Goodbye

Compilations	Ballads Greatest Hits The Best of Richard Marx The Essential Richard Marx Timeline Duo Stories to Tell Hits & Ballads Inside My Head Seven & Seven Now and Forever: The Ballads The Ultimate Collection

Promo compilations	Marx Greatest Hits (1993) The Music of Richard Marx: 1987–2009

Live albums	Live in USA 1988/92 Live Music Hall Koln 1992 Channel V at the Hard Rock Live Duo Live A Night Out With Friends

Singles	"Don't Mean Nothing" "Should've Known Better" "Endless Summer Nights" "Hold On to the Nights" "Have Mercy" "Satisfied" "Right Here Waiting" "Angelia" "Nothin' You Can Do About It" "Too Late to Say Goodbye" "Children of the Night" "Keep Coming Back" "Hazard" "Take This Heart" "Chains Around My Heart" "Playing With Fire" "Now and Forever" "Silent Scream" "The Way She Loves Me" "Nothing Left Behind Us" "Until I Find You Again" "At the Beginning" "Days in Avalon" "Straight from My Heart" "When You're Gone" "Nothing Left To Say" "Ready to Fly" "Everybody" "When You Loved Me" "When Love Is All You've Got" "Christmas Spirit" "Wouldn't Let Me Love You" "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" "The Little Drummer Boy" "Christmas Mornings" "O Holy Night" "Just Go" "Whatever We Started" "Beautiful Goodbye"

Singles written and/or composed	"What About Me" (Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Kim Carnes/1984) "Crazy" (Kenny Rogers/1985) "Somebody Took My Love" (Durell Coleman)/1985 "Edge of a Broken Heart" (Vixen/1989) "Nothing to Hide" (Poco/1989) "The Best of Me" (Cliff Richard/1989) "Heart in Pieces" (Tim Feehan/1990) "The Reason Why" (John Farnham/1993) "Every Year, Every Christmas" (Luther Vandross/1995) "If You Ever Leave Me" (Barbra Streisand, Vince Gill/1999) "One More Time (Laura Pausini/1999) "Angel on My Shoulder" (Natalie Cole/2000) "This I Promise You" ('N Sync/2000) "Still Holding Out For You" (SHeDAISY/2001) "To Where You Are" (Josh Groban/2002) "Dance with My Father" (Luther Vandross/2003) "Life Got in the Way" (Sister Hazel/2003) "Someday" (Vince Gill/2003) "With This Ring (Kenny Loggins/2003) "I Miss Us (Kenny Loggins/2004) "Last One Standing" (Emerson Drive/2004) "World Inside My Head" (Sister Hazel/2004) "Better Life" (Keith Urban/2005) "If You Were My Girl" (Emerson Drive/2005) "Everybody" (Keith Urban/2007) "You Never Take Me Dancing" (Travis Tritt/2007) "Just Like You" (George Canyon/2008) "One Little Miracle" (Hawk Nelson/2008) "All Over Me" (Default/2009) "All or Nothing" (George Canyon/2009) "In Your Arms Again" (George Canyon, Crystal Shawanda/2009) "Long Hot Summer" (Keith Urban/2010) "Surrender" (George Canyon/2011)

Musicals	Beauty and the Beast

Related articles	Discography Songwriting/Production Sessions WikiProject

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