āCHRISTMAS WITH THE CARPENTERSā
Track Listing, Disc 1:
1.) O Come, O Come Emmanuel:28 (P.D. Arrg. & Adapted by Richard Carpenter) (1992 Remix)
2.) Overture: 4:38 (1992 Remix)
a. Deck The Halls (With Boughs Of Holly) / (P.D. Trad French Carol)
b. I Saw Three Ships (P.D. Trad Welsh Carol)
c. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Martin/Blane)
d. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (P.D. Trad English Carol)
e. Away In A Manger (Lutherās Cradle Hymn) / (P.D. Luther/Mueller/Spilman)
f. What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) / (P.D. Will C. Dix)
g. Carol Of The Bells (P.D. Trad Ukranian Carol)
h. O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) / (P.D. English version: Oakeley/Wade/Reai)
3.) The Christmas Waltz 2:14 (Cahn/Styne) (1992 Remix)
4.) Sleigh Ride 2:39 (Parish/Anderson) (1992 Remix)
5.) Itās Christmas Time/Sleep Well, Little Children 2:54 (Young/Stilman/Bergman/Klatzkin) (1992 Remix)
6.) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 3:57 (Martin/Blane) (1992 Remix)
7.) Silent Night 3:20 (P.D. Orig. Music by Franz Gruber, Arrg. & Adapted by Peter Knight) (1992 Remix)
8.) What Are You Doing New Yearās Eve? 2:50 (Loesser)
9.) An Old-Fashioned Christmas 2:15 (Carpenter/Bettis)
10.) O Holy Night 3:10 (P.D. Adolphe Adam/Adapted by Richard Carpenter)
11.) (Thereās No Place Like) Home For The Holidays 2:36 (Allen/Stillman)
12.) Medley 3:44
a. Here Comes Santa Claus (Autry/Haldeman) Gene Autry's Western Music Publishing (ASCAP)
b. Frosty The Snowman (Nelson/Rollins) Chappell & Co. (ASCAP)
c. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Marks) St. Nicholas Music Inc. (ASCAP)
d. Good King Wenceslas (P.D. John Mason Neale, Adapted by Richard Carpenter) Almo Music Corp./Hammer and Nails Music, adm. by
Almo Music Corp. (ASCAP)
13.) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) 3:41 (Torme/Wells) (1992 Remix)
Track Listing, Disc 2:
1.) The First Snowfall/Let It Snow (Medley) 3:37 (Webster/Burke) & (Cahn/Styne) (1992 Remix)
2.) He Came Here For Me 2:14 (Nelson)
3.) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 4:08 (Gillespie/Coots) (1984 Remix)
4.) I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day 2:22 (Marks/Longfellow, Adapted by Johnny Marks)
5.) Merry Christmas Darling 3:05 (Pooler/Carpenter) (1992 Remix)
6.) Little Altar Boy 3:44 (Smith)
7.) Iāll Be Home For Christmas 3:50 (Gannon/Kent/Ram) (1992 Remix)
8.) Christ Is Born 3:13 (Charles/Bartolucci) (1990 Remix)
9.) White Christmas: 2:41 (1990 Remix)
10.) Ave Maria 2:38 (P.D. Original Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Adapted by Charles Gounod, This arrg & adaptation by Peter Knight) (1990 Remix)
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Notes by Harry Neyhart, A&M Corner Staffer:
After the new owner of A&M Records, PolyGram, acquired the labelās catalog, they decided to license out some of their recordings to the likes of outfits like Time-Life and Readerās Digest. These companies were eager to market big name acts like Carpenters in order to potentially boost sales of their other concerns. This action was not unprecedented; even in the Alpert-Moss era they licensed out recordings all the time to Longines Symphonette, Readerās Digest, etc.
Time-Life put out this Christmas effort in 1992. While Richard was undertaking his massive remix project, he included the CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT recordings, with some of them appearing for the first time on the FROM THE TOP box set. These are the ones with the ā1990 remixā label. Others appeared here for the first time, and get a ā1992 remixā label.
Fans were eager to straighten out the CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT anomaly ā the fact that that CD had been altered to include selections from the second album. This disc helped, but still didnāt cover all of the recordings on CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT. It DID however include a remix of āMerry Christmas Darlingā thatās never appeared anywhere else. It has the typical stereo piano re-record along with heavier reverb on Karenās vocal.