A Merry Little Christmas

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A Merry Little Christmas

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  • Artist: Linda Ronstadt
  • Rating: StarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: October 10, 2000
  • Type: Christmas, Lyrics are included with the album, Contains explicit content
  • Genre: Rock

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A surprising holiday album from Linda Ronstadt, who has chosen to include just a handful of standards and only one song in Spanish. The remainder of the tracks are traditional old English and Welsh Christmas songs, sung in Ronstadt's familiar warm voice. Highlights include a brassy duet with Rosemary Clooney on "White Christmas" and the contemporary "River," which sounds almost like the singer has been listening to a lot of Sarah McLachlan. On the whole, A Merry Little Christmas is a warm window into what Linda Ronstadt considers to be her favorite songs of the season. ~ Zac Johnson, Rovi

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A Merry Little Christmas (Linda Ronstadt album)

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A Merry Little Christmas
Studio album by Linda Ronstadt
Released October 17, 2000
Recorded 2000
Genre Christmas
Label Elektra
Producer Linda Ronstadt
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Linda Ronstadt chronology
Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions
(1999)
A Merry Little Christmas
(2000)
The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt
(2002)

A Merry Little Christmas is a Christmas album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt, released in 2000. It was the final release under Ronstadt's recording contract with the Elektra/Asylum Records label for whom Linda had recorded since 1973 (twenty-seven years to that point).

It was the biggest-selling Holiday album of the 2000 Christmas season. It peaked at #179 on Billboard's main album chart and has continued to sell year in and year out. Among the highlights of this disc are Ronstadt's duet with the late Rosemary Clooney on the perennial track "White Christmas" and her ultra-somber interpretation of Joni Mitchell's "River".

Track listing

  1. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) – 4:24
  2. "I'll Be Home For Christmas" (Buck Ram, Kim Gannon, Walter Kent) – 4:15
  3. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 4:22
  4. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) – 3:55
  5. "River" (Joni Mitchell) – 4:10
  6. "O come, O come, Emmanuel" (John Mason Neale) – 3:29
  7. "Xicochi, Xicochi" (Gaspar Fernandez) – 2:17
  8. "I Wonder As I Wander" (John Jacob Niles, Traditional) – 3:20
  9. "Away In A Manger" (Traditional) – 2:08
  10. "Lo, How A Rose E're Blooming" (Traditional) – 2:10
  11. "Welsh Carol" (Traditional) – 3:57
  12. "Past Three O'Clock" (George Ratcliffe Woodward, Traditional) – 0:41
  13. "O Magnum Mysterium" (Traditional) – 3:19
  14. "Silent Night" (Josef Mohr) – 3:06



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