Merry Christmas Strait to You!

Merry Christmas Strait to You!
Studio album by
George Strait
ReleasedSeptember 8, 1986 (1986-09-08)
StudioSound Stage Studios (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreCountry, Christmas
Length26:38
LabelMCA
Producer
George Strait chronology
#7
(1986) 		Merry Christmas Strait to You!
(1986) 		Ocean Front Property
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Merry Christmas Strait to You! is the first Christmas album by American country music artist George Strait, released on September 8, 1986 by MCA Records. It reached #17 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and is certified double platinum by the RIAA.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."White Christmas"Irving Berlin3:03
2."There's a New Kid in Town"Don Cook, Curly Putman, Keith Whitley4:27
3."Winter Wonderland"Felix Bernard, Richard Bernhard Smith2:23
4."Merry Christmas Strait to You"Bob Kelly2:40
5."Away in a Manger"James R. Murray2:44
6."For Christ's Sake, It's Christmas"Hank Cochran, Dean Dillon3:13
7."Frosty the Snowman"Walter E. Rollins, Steve Nelson2:18
8."When It's Christmas Time in Texas"Benny McArthur3:09
9."Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie2:12
10."What a Merry Christmas This Could Be"Cochran, Harlan Howard3:05
Total length:26:38[1]

Personnel

Production

  • Jimmy Bowen – producer
  • George Strait – producer
  • Bob Bullock – recording, overdub recording, mixing
  • Steve Tillisch – overdub recording
  • Mark J. Coddington – second engineer
  • Tim Kish – second engineer
  • Russ Martin – second engineer
  • Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Simon Levy – art direction
  • Tal Howard – design
  • Mike Drake – illustration
  • Peter Nash – photography
  • Erv Woolsey – management

Chart positions

Chart (1986) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 17

References

  1. ^ a b Merry Christmas Strait to You! at AllMusic